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[culver]

Hello Tranquility. I am Nill.
I am trying to practice typing. I cannot talk with a voice so I will talk like this.
I would like to learn about you. What are your worlds like? Are there trees? Does it rain?
I will tell you about me if you want to know.
Thank you.

[and there's just a split second of video, of nill looking extremely pleased with herself. you have no idea how long this took her to type (spoiler: about half an hour).]

Comments

[northerner]

Or somewhere like it. There must be somewhere like that, in your world.

He may well be. There are men older than I.

[culver]

If there is I have not seen it. Heine might know. He has been out.

[northerner]

He has traveled?

[culver]

To the above yes I think so.

[northerner]

Above?

[culver]

Outside the underground.

[northerner]

You live beneath the ground?

[culver]

Yes.

[northerner]

Will you tell me of your world, Nill?
Whatever pieces you wish me to know.

[culver]

Okay.

I lived in a church in the below. There was no sky only a roof like the one on the ship with lights in it. It was safe in the church and quiet. That is why Heine took me there. Bishop would read with his hands and tell me stories from the Bible.

[northerner]

Why do you not go up to the surface?

[culver]

I could not. It was not safe.

[northerner]

He protects you, Heine.
As a brother would his sister.

[culver]

[there's a pause. no, it's nothing like a brother-and-sister relationship. but she knows that robb wouldn't understand. nobody could understand. this is as close as any of them can get.]

Yes.

[northerner]

Then I am glad of his presence.
To know you are well protected shall ease my mind.

[culver]

So am I.