Fascinating. I can't imagine -- though I'd love to see one, one day. They must be magnificent pieces of machinery...
[ Kim trails off, eyes gleaming with more fascination than they strictly ought to, considering the fact that Midnight is talking about something born of the necessity of absolute catastrophe and not a science project. Kim understands that, truly, he does... but he's the sort of man who will stop in the middle of the street, attention ensnared by an ordinary construction machine. His elders thought he would grow out of it one day, when he was young, but his passion had only became more voracious when given a paycheck to feed it with. ]
Khm. Not to belittle the natural disasters, of course. I'm only glad that your people found a way around it. [ His finger taps against the glass, smearing the condensation dripping down it. ]
All of our cities are permanent settlements, yes. We don't have the technology for any sort of nomadic city. Even the cellular phone given to us is well beyond anything we have access to. Though, in truth, even if we could move... there is nowhere to move to. Most habitable areas have already been colonized. [ He shrugs. ] The Pale has already spread to everything else.
[ The Pale -- he says it freely, without weight, as commonplace as someone saying the ocean may be. He has not yet spoken to anyone about the structure of their world. To his knowledge, every world has to reckon with the Pale. Any other reality is beyond foreign to him. ]
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[ Kim trails off, eyes gleaming with more fascination than they strictly ought to, considering the fact that Midnight is talking about something born of the necessity of absolute catastrophe and not a science project. Kim understands that, truly, he does... but he's the sort of man who will stop in the middle of the street, attention ensnared by an ordinary construction machine. His elders thought he would grow out of it one day, when he was young, but his passion had only became more voracious when given a paycheck to feed it with. ]
Khm. Not to belittle the natural disasters, of course. I'm only glad that your people found a way around it. [ His finger taps against the glass, smearing the condensation dripping down it. ]
All of our cities are permanent settlements, yes. We don't have the technology for any sort of nomadic city. Even the cellular phone given to us is well beyond anything we have access to. Though, in truth, even if we could move... there is nowhere to move to. Most habitable areas have already been colonized. [ He shrugs. ] The Pale has already spread to everything else.
[ The Pale -- he says it freely, without weight, as commonplace as someone saying the ocean may be. He has not yet spoken to anyone about the structure of their world. To his knowledge, every world has to reckon with the Pale. Any other reality is beyond foreign to him. ]