uisgeannan | (no subject)

Yeah. They were something else.

[he'll approach the tram, but make sure she's behind him.]

[She's quickly following and putting her ticker in the little ticket slot.]

That's crazy! What do they use those for?

All sorts of stuff. [they have something sort of like trams back on his world, still, so he seems pretty comfortable finding a seat and gesturing her over to come sit next to them. C:]

Largely they transported goods like food, furniture, books... But they were used for things like mail and transporting people, too. When you had that many cars, you could move a lot of different things pretty far.

Wow....

[She will! And she's immediately looking around curiously. This is a new thing for her.]

I can't imagine any of the cities back home needing to move that much of... anything.

Mm. This is back when cities were huge...

[he will casually... put his arm around her shoulder. C:]

They aren't around anymore, but we still have a little thing like this. It's a help.

[Oh snap. Euri's eyes dart over to him, then she shifts a bit closer as the tram pulls away from the station.]

We don't even have these kinds in the bigger towns. I'm... not sure about the cities, though. I've only ever been to one.

[heh.]

Are there... lots of cities where you're from? [he looks thoughtful for a moment.] I always sort of assume it's like my world, but I might be completely wrong.

There's seven. [She'll start counting them off on her fingers.]

Fundi, Metaphor, Perpetia, Kyrie, Mactech, Volume and Ashvara. Aside from Kyrie and Perpetia, and Mactech and Volume the cities are pretty isolated from each other.

[--wait hold up.] There's a city named "Metaphor"?

..... Yeah. Why?

[Looking out the windows. Oh man, so much water.]

That just... seems like a strange name for a city.

[...says the guy who came from "Skeleton City". he'll look out the windows as she does, though, trying to get a view of the mainland.]

[Yeah really c: Euri just shrugs.]

It's the Witch capital, so it's really old.

[And now that she's actually said 'Witch' she feels the need to change the subject.]

Is this really the ocean?

[shrugging as well.]

It's got waves and a tide, so... I guess so.

.... It smells weird. [Too salty :c]

Oh. [a thought!] Have you never seen the ocean before?

[She shakes her head.] I've always stayed inland.

Well... this is it. Lots of salty water.

[he laughs a little.] It's not so interesting until you're under the water, or on the beach.

Why? What makes it different than a lake?

A lake is surrounded by land. Land is surrounded by oceans. Oceans are much larger. And since it's salt water, a whole bunch of animals live there that can't live in lakes...

[like sharks. and giant squids.]

[Yesss, following this line of logic and turning to stare out the windows again.]

Like really, really big animals?

Yeah! Like sharks and whales. [:D]

Oh.... [Too hick to know what sharks (even freshwater ones) and whales are, so she's trying to picture them.

... They look like giant fish :D;]

They must taste good.

They do. Whale is great. [close enough!]

Do you think they might have some in the city?? [They're getting pretty close now. Accord is actually quite big!]

Maybe...! [...looking out his window for realz now, seriously interested.]

Jeez. This place looks pretty big.