[ Kim pauses, mouth agape for a moment. He shakes it off. ] I've grown accustomed to the idea of different worlds, of non-humans and magic and space travel, but somehow it never occurred to me that something like the Pale could be unique to my own world...
[ It is reality as he knows it. The most fundamental part of reality, he thinks, the one thing that is constant whether he wants it to be or not: after the world, the pale; after the pale -- the world again> He shakes his head with a wry smile. ]
No doubt your moving cities and your natural disasters are very much the same for you. The Pale is a geological phenomena that covers most of the world -- my world. It is, euh... anti-matter, they call it. And terribly dangerous for one's mind. It contains the entirety of human memory within it.
[ Kim shrugs, taking another sip of his drink. It makes him uncomfortable to think about. There is a 2mm hole in his beloved Revachol. It is growing. ]
Travelers are limited to six days of exposure a year. Any more than that, and things become compromised. Not a very pleasant topic, I'm afraid.
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[ Kim pauses, mouth agape for a moment. He shakes it off. ] I've grown accustomed to the idea of different worlds, of non-humans and magic and space travel, but somehow it never occurred to me that something like the Pale could be unique to my own world...
[ It is reality as he knows it. The most fundamental part of reality, he thinks, the one thing that is constant whether he wants it to be or not: after the world, the pale; after the pale -- the world again> He shakes his head with a wry smile. ]
No doubt your moving cities and your natural disasters are very much the same for you. The Pale is a geological phenomena that covers most of the world -- my world. It is, euh... anti-matter, they call it. And terribly dangerous for one's mind. It contains the entirety of human memory within it.
[ Kim shrugs, taking another sip of his drink. It makes him uncomfortable to think about. There is a 2mm hole in his beloved Revachol. It is growing. ]
Travelers are limited to six days of exposure a year. Any more than that, and things become compromised. Not a very pleasant topic, I'm afraid.