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The tablets are almost indestructible. They may be your only source of communication at times, trying while alone is ill advised.

[Skimming the other replies tells him the rest was a reference to something he doesn't know. He doesn't have the energy to ask, so he ignores it.]

What happens when you try alone? The snow monsters eat you?

[Sorry, Enoch. At least he switched to text so you won't have to hear the derisive tone in his voice?]

You won't have another tablet until you are provided one - it's easy to be cut off from everyone completely if you lose it while you aren't in a group.

Provided one? I get this for free? And when I lose it I get another one?

Yes. As far as the oddities of this place are concerned, this is one of the minor ones.

Speak for yourself, I can't score the student deals anymore, they want IDs these days

Congratulations if you manage to keep it then, I suppose.

[He kind of hopes he'll keep his. There are some good memories in his inbox, in all this horror. Bittersweet now, really. Doesn't matter. He's aware he should be either attempting to go along with his humor or trying to get him to take the situation more seriously before he gets himself killed. But just these acknowledging responses seem to be like running mental marathons.]

You might want to be aware that some people here will not understand the references you make in your jokes.

Are you one of those people? You didn't even give me a smiley. :(

Do you want me to explain the joke to you?

I'm from the ancient past as compared to the other people from Earth here, so, to be blunt, yes, I am one of those people.

You can explain it if you'd like.

[If it helps. He won't turn down an explanation offered.]

From the ancient past? Where are you from? Or is it when?

There is a show where I'm from. It is called Survivor. People battle to the death and vote each other out of the jungle. There is a lot of intrigues.

I think it's both, but the "when" holds more impact, I think. In my time, the most sophisticated tools were forged from copper and its alloys.

[That's enough to go on, right? It's all he really knows that doesn't rely on his lineage.]

Copper?

That's cuivre? The stuff they put into coins?

I wouldn't know about the coins. Most nations I encountered still measure a metal's value by weight of its pure enough ingots. I only know of their future as coins by being told so.

What, you're a Neanderthal?

[Yeah, he's not very well-versed in history.]

I don't know what that is.

[His world had a drastically shortened Stone Age, too, adding to the confusion...]

A caveman.

Are you a caveman?

A hermit? On occasion. I can't say I prefer living away from civilization, however. I don't see what that has to do with currency.

[That's his best guess at "caveman", sorry, David.]

[Are you... putting him on?]

I doesn't have anything to do with currency, you brought up the bronze, I'm just trying to figure out what fucking character you're playing.

I am not "playing" anyone. I know it is difficult to understand, but when we tell you we are from many worlds and times, we are telling you the truth.

My name is Enoch. Approximately four hundred years ago (relative to me, not you) I was born to Jared and Baraka, the sixth generation in the bloodline of Seth, seventh from Adam. I have taken over seventy aliases in my long life and I am tired of playing at being someone I'm not - this is the truth, even if you choose not to believe it.

[And for his part, that took more energy than he would have liked to put together. He understands perfectly why David has a hard time believing him. He wouldn't have admitted being about four hundred at home for the same reason.

But he is so tired, of so many things.]

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