If it's any consolation, this technology leaves us at sea as well... I'm afraid I have a limited understanding of your nation's history, [says man who's read through the university library and all of a bookshop's wares] but based on what you say, you may be two thousand years apart from us, if not more -- a-assuming we are from the same world! Which I've come to understand isn't a given...
[He stops talking abruptly, as the haniwa lurches -- not breathing until it's on steady ground and Tama's no longer in contact with it. Okay. Phew. Sorry, Kawako! You're officially evicted. Friendship with haniwa ended, grass bird is our new best friend.]
...a-anyway. There must be animal life somewhere. If only beyond the city boundaries... not that either of us know what's really out there. Nobody will talk about it, even if they know.
[After all, if there weren't things like chickens or cattle, then what was supplying the steakhouses and eateries he's seen in the Shuten territories... aaaaand that's not a thought he is going to share, thank you very much, not when his companion's already skittish about those areas of the city.]
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[He stops talking abruptly, as the haniwa lurches -- not breathing until it's on steady ground and Tama's no longer in contact with it. Okay. Phew. Sorry, Kawako! You're officially evicted. Friendship with haniwa ended, grass bird is our new best friend.]
...a-anyway. There must be animal life somewhere. If only beyond the city boundaries... not that either of us know what's really out there. Nobody will talk about it, even if they know.
[After all, if there weren't things like chickens or cattle, then what was supplying the steakhouses and eateries he's seen in the Shuten territories... aaaaand that's not a thought he is going to share, thank you very much, not when his companion's already skittish about those areas of the city.]