I Like Long Walks On The Beach

[iamnotpolaris]

The beach is a nice, convenient, out-of-earshot place to calibrate the coordinates for this universe.

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[iamnotpolaris]

"...What's the Enemy?"

[not_only]

"Um, so part of the reason I know even less about religion than I might otherwise is because a while ago a strange army showed up from outside the planet and started trying to conquer it, and they nearly wiped out the Ceirene completely and started in on the Aluvai before we managed to pull together an alliance, and, well, a lot of people decided that if their gods really existed they sure weren't helping."

[iamnotpolaris]

"That. Would be a better reason to find your world again than kids getting eaten by wild animals."

[not_only]

"I don't even really think about it much. Things have gotten a lot better since the alliance, and I didn't live anywhere near the edge. But, um, yeah."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I mean, I'm sure there are terrible things about my world that I don't think about much that an outsider who had a chance of fixing it would want to."

[not_only]

"Hard to find out what they are, though, if you don't think about them."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah."

[not_only]

Nod.

[iamnotpolaris]

"I mean, if I try to come up with things that could be improved about my world it's not that hard. Like, diseases."

[not_only]

"Diseases generally aren't good."

[iamnotpolaris]

"But, you know, I don't really think about things like Ebola in my day-to-day life."

[not_only]

"Yeah."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It would be nice if we ran into some more useful magic before we got home."

[not_only]

"Useful magic is generally pretty nice, yes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Considering the fact that he apparently completely reworked the island's biome it wouldn't surprise me if Tialle's Demon could do something about disease, come to think of it."

[not_only]

"Yeah. It's... impressive."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. Of course, he had ten thousand years to do it in, which...is impressive in its own right."

[not_only]

Nod nod.

[iamnotpolaris]

"That's older than my religion!"

[not_only]

"Older than a lot of things, I bet."

[iamnotpolaris]

"No kidding. I'm going to have a hard time keeping a straight face next time I go to a history museum and hear someone gushing over how these artifacts are five thousand years old, isn't that so impressive?"

[not_only]

He smiles and nods agreement.

[iamnotpolaris]

"...I hope Edie asks him to put on pants before the next time we see him, a random guy being naked is a little weird but seeing a guy who's had sex with my sister naked is just ew."

[not_only]

"Um. Yes," agrees Sivath.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ugh. So. Magic."