[ Rau laughs in just shocked, fascinated, disbelieving delight. Stepping from one place to another in death, but stepping into the most domestic setting possible -- it's completely outrageous and completely mundane. But the same could be said of Mendel itself, where people devoted themselves to human insatiability and then came home to their exquisitely ordinary lives.
If Gil isn't letting go of him, Rau is going to drag him to the nearest window, to look at the greenery that well-to-do colonies planted to offset the sterility of life in space. It's still there, still alive, not the wasteland of red-brown dust that had covered the place on his last visit. ]
Before it was sterilized.
[ His blue eyes go very wide, racing through the ramifications. There's some malleability to time as well as space, though whether it's bounded by their own recollections and whether it requires some level of mutual familiarity will have to be worked out. ]
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If Gil isn't letting go of him, Rau is going to drag him to the nearest window, to look at the greenery that well-to-do colonies planted to offset the sterility of life in space. It's still there, still alive, not the wasteland of red-brown dust that had covered the place on his last visit. ]
Before it was sterilized.
[ His blue eyes go very wide, racing through the ramifications. There's some malleability to time as well as space, though whether it's bounded by their own recollections and whether it requires some level of mutual familiarity will have to be worked out. ]
Oh, this is exceptional.