Running a settlement requires a great deal more paperwork than you'd think.
I'm not permitted to leave the settlement without an escort, and inside the settlement there's rarely a moment's peace. I felt tethered to my table even when I wasn't beside it, and now the tether’s broken.
I did have an apprentice for a while, but I'm not sure I’d do it again.
[A sweet, earnest Saxon boy only a couple of years Steph’s junior, he’d been murdered by one of their Norse allies soon after he’d left her village. Even now, he sits heavy in her heart like a stone]
I know that you all understand each other, and thus expect to be understood. I fear that as we progress here, I'll be left behind.
I try not to talk like that. I know how it feels, and I know your world is really different from mine. That doesn't make it lesser.
I'm not trying to be patronizing, but sometimes it's easier to think of it like magic. Most of the time the specifics aren't really important, you just need to know that it works and go from there.
Like, I couldn't tell you how an airplane flies, it just does.
I know you understand, but to me it's not old. It's my life.
I know you can't halt everything to explain things to me, but it's not just how things function. What is “automated”? What kind of damage should I expect a gun to do? What is “egghead”?
I'm afraid that any code people make to keep out eavesdroppers will cut me off as well.
Getting shot by a gun is like getting shot by an arrow made of burning embers fired from a bow that shoots so fast you can't see it. It burns, and it will break bone if it hits it, and sometimes it breaks inside you, and the pieces are poisonous. I can get more specific if you want but that about sums it up.
"Egghead" is an insult for someone who's really smart but has no social skills.
Insults get really weird in different cultures, even in the same culture over the course of a couple of years. I wouldn't be surprised if you hear some I've never heard before.
I don't think a code is a very good idea anyway, but if things start to go that way I'll make sure you don't get left out. There's not much point if not everyone can use it that needs to, you know?
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I'm not permitted to leave the settlement without an escort, and inside the settlement there's rarely a moment's peace. I felt tethered to my table even when I wasn't beside it, and now the tether’s broken.
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But I think there are a few others things we can prioritize first.
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[It's a joke, but a lot of what’s on her plate are the unfun parts of ruling that Sigurd doesn't want to do]
But yes, you're right, we must survive this first.
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I don't mean to be an airplane person. I'm not trying to dismiss your concerns, honest.
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[A sweet, earnest Saxon boy only a couple of years Steph’s junior, he’d been murdered by one of their Norse allies soon after he’d left her village. Even now, he sits heavy in her heart like a stone]
I know that you all understand each other, and thus expect to be understood. I fear that as we progress here, I'll be left behind.
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I'm not trying to be patronizing, but sometimes it's easier to think of it like magic. Most of the time the specifics aren't really important, you just need to know that it works and go from there.
Like, I couldn't tell you how an airplane flies, it just does.
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I know you can't halt everything to explain things to me, but it's not just how things function. What is “automated”? What kind of damage should I expect a gun to do? What is “egghead”?
I'm afraid that any code people make to keep out eavesdroppers will cut me off as well.
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"Automated" means it does stuff by itself.
Getting shot by a gun is like getting shot by an arrow made of burning embers fired from a bow that shoots so fast you can't see it. It burns, and it will break bone if it hits it, and sometimes it breaks inside you, and the pieces are poisonous. I can get more specific if you want but that about sums it up.
"Egghead" is an insult for someone who's really smart but has no social skills.
Insults get really weird in different cultures, even in the same culture over the course of a couple of years. I wouldn't be surprised if you hear some I've never heard before.
I don't think a code is a very good idea anyway, but if things start to go that way I'll make sure you don't get left out. There's not much point if not everyone can use it that needs to, you know?
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So when people speculate that the defences here are automated, they think they may be following an old plan on their own?
[She’s not going to address the gun thing but no wonder Senku had been so afraid of them]
There is nothing that will make you contemplate your own mortality like people quoting an old poem composed centuries after your death.
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Who's quoting poetry? That just seems obnoxious.
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Is there someone here who’s not obnoxious?
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I feel like I should be insulted by that question, and yet, you're not wrong.
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To be fair, I count myself among them.
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