"They," Benji repeats, following a quiet mm that is lost in her wine as she drinks deeply. Wolfgang's words sink in and remain unsettled, aggravating, and they are words shaped from the experience of living here and living elsewhere. It rings familiar -- there is much here that is unique to here in a way she never had before.
A hand comes up, rubbing uneasily at her jaw, tucking hair behind her ear. "You aren't crazy," she says, after a moment, a glance to him along with a minor smile, back down at her drink.
"Where I'm from, they put depressants in the negation medications and made it compulsory if you were over tier two. Or tried to. The hunters-- you saw them, when we dreamed-- they were installed with a... it's a compass, for people like us." It's easy and thoughtless, how she includes Wolfgang, how her perception of Evolved has expanded to xenians, magic-users. "They just kept making so many laws and the laws weren't there to protect anyone.
"I didn't have to, um. Do any of that, I wasn't even legal. It started a long time ago, maybe-- 2010, earlier, a few decades, and we lived off grid. When I came here, it was when we were meant to be going back. In time." Now who sounds crazy? "To, mm, to try and stop it from getting that bad, somehow. It was easier to be," gesture with glass to indicate Baedal broadly, "wooed, I suppose."
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A hand comes up, rubbing uneasily at her jaw, tucking hair behind her ear. "You aren't crazy," she says, after a moment, a glance to him along with a minor smile, back down at her drink.
"Where I'm from, they put depressants in the negation medications and made it compulsory if you were over tier two. Or tried to. The hunters-- you saw them, when we dreamed-- they were installed with a... it's a compass, for people like us." It's easy and thoughtless, how she includes Wolfgang, how her perception of Evolved has expanded to xenians, magic-users. "They just kept making so many laws and the laws weren't there to protect anyone.
"I didn't have to, um. Do any of that, I wasn't even legal. It started a long time ago, maybe-- 2010, earlier, a few decades, and we lived off grid. When I came here, it was when we were meant to be going back. In time." Now who sounds crazy? "To, mm, to try and stop it from getting that bad, somehow. It was easier to be," gesture with glass to indicate Baedal broadly, "wooed, I suppose."