Ashes to Ashes

[divinityfrompain]

WHO: Julia Wicker and Red mac Raith
WHAT: Quest, task 2!
WHERE: Solvunn
WHEN: July
WARNINGS: Nothing!



It's a strange experience, preparing for a funeral in advance. Not an unknown one, it happens sometimes in her world too, when people know they're on their way out. But it's never been so communal in her experience, nothing like this mass mix of grief and pride. They will miss Winifred but also believe in her sacrifice, which is a strange thing to think about, but that is Solvunn for you. Everything is sacred around here in one way or another.

She planned on going out on her own to figure out the trees but frankly, a decent woodchopper is probably for the best, and Red's got the look to him. She could probably handle it herself with magic but Julia's always preferred teamwork whenever possible. After being alone in every possible way, she likes company.

"Okay I thiiiiink this is one of the trees." Her dark hair is up in a sensible bun and she's wearing clothes that are good for potential labor. Despite being very petite, she does have an axe in hand and doesn't seem to be tired of it yet. "We have to do a ritual before cutting it down."

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[divinityfrompain]

"We have something called elevators. Oh man how to explain ...." Julia is getting used to people who have different levels of technology but it still doesn't mean it is easy to try and clarify. "It's this metal box that has a bunch of technologically advanced ... pulley system, kind of, and it can bring you up and down multiple floors in seconds." She doesn't know exactly how an elevator works so she's both trying to make sense of it and explain it at the same time.

"New York surpassed London some years ago, it has like eighteen million people who live in the city and surrounding boroughs." That must seem like a crazy high number. "And that's not even the top ten largest cities, we have so much overpopulation in my time." It keeps getting higher too.

They get to keep the axe and head back out. "So what's it like in Scotland in your era?"

[macwraith]

The idea of a platform to access heights with pulleys is not entirely foreign to him, though everything in his day is far more... manual. But Red mutters some sort of agreement and nods, and wonders at the sheer number of people and buildings. And he'd thought London was too densely populated already.

Red carries the axe on the way back over his shoulder, keeping in step with her at a steady but not overly quick pace.

"Rather the same it's been for a while, between the wars, the kings and the church." He shrugs. "In truth, I haven't spent much time in the old fatherland in recent years. I was most recently in New England, though it's nothing like what you've described at this point."

[divinityfrompain]

New York City is insane and Julia loves it but it is definitely overpopulated. It just has a lot of life to it and she misses it a lot. She knows that Cadens is the closest thing to a 'city' that they have there, or the other Free Cities locations too, but it probably wouldn't stack up. At this point Oleuni Square is impressive to her, compared to the constant nature of Solvunn.

She appreciates he doesn't walk overly fast. She has short legs so she's probably walking twice as much for every one of his strides. She smiles up at him as he talks. His accent is very pretty. She's not so basic bitch she'll get enamored with every accent she hears, but it's still nice.

"Old school New England! That must have been a long ship trek to get there from overseas." It used to be so much harder. "We have things called planes now. They're mechanical transportation that can fly in the air, it gets you across the ocean in a shorter amount of time." Weeks turn into hours. "What were you doing there?"