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@ASolomons; audio

[devoutish]

No. Not really, no.

[standing_waters]

That's terrible. Even just a little sunlight could make a huge difference.

*To him, at least.*

[devoutish]

It's spring now, we think. We get a bit of daylight. In the winter, we had an hour or two of it; that was all.

[standing_waters]

*Oh man, its this cold while its spring? That boggles the mind.*

Kinda glad I missed winter, then.

Do you think its true the cloud cover and general weather is due to a nuclear winter?

[devoutish]

Dunno. Haven't got a clue.

[standing_waters]

What's your take on it, then? Or is that it?

*Nothing wrong with not knowing, of course.*

[devoutish]

That's it. Yeah. You can't come up with theories about everything; you'll find that out soon enough.

[standing_waters]

Of course not, but that doesn't mean hearing people's theories can't be helpful.

[devoutish]

It doesn't matter.

[He doesn't mean for that to come out as weary as it does.]

What I mean is, is that there's more important things.

[standing_waters]

What do you consider important, here?

[devoutish]

Just what you'd expect, mate - survival, and leaving.

[standing_waters]

*Hmm.*

But you don't think hearing what people think of all this is helpful?

[devoutish]

Not when it's random conjecture about things that aren't likely to be important. No.

[standing_waters]

I don't know, even then it can give you insight into those theorizing.

[devoutish]

Fucking hell. Is there a point to this? Not to worry, I'm not gonna stop you from talking about whatever you wanna talk about.

[standing_waters]

*??*

Uh, no, I was just making conversation.

[devoutish]

Mm. We'll make better conversation, then. Who are you?

[standing_waters]

Manny. Manuel Laurin. You?

[devoutish]

Solomons. Alfie. Matching usernames, eh?

[What with the "first initial, last name" pattern.]

[standing_waters]

Its a popular one where I'm from. Or at least an easy to come up with one.

[devoutish]

And you're from...?

[standing_waters]

Earth, Louisiana, early 2000s.

[devoutish]

Ah, you must have read the guides, if you know you need to be specific about planet and time period.

Earth, London, early 1920s.

[standing_waters]

I did; it seemed like the wisest way to go about this.

1920s, huh? I take it the technology change was quite a shock to you. If you don't mind my asking, was it the technology or the sudden environment change that took longer to get used to?

[devoutish]

The environment. You've seen the way it is; that's not much of a surprise, is it.

We don't see much in the way of technology here, other than the tablets. The rest is hidden from us, most of the time - the robot spiders, the nanomachines.