[ Look, Jaskier has already confirmed that the concept of zoos, of keeping animals just to have them, is a thing in their world too. Is it so hard to imagine people keeping fish for looking-at purposes? Giving them to dumb kids at the local fair as a prize for throwing a ball in a cup is a different story entirely, but just the idea of pet fish cannot be that unfathomable. The prettiest fish are all toxic anyway, so what else can be done with them?
Her brow furrows a little with thought as she considers what he says. She knows that whole oceans have dried on Earth before, but it was millions, if not billions, of years ago; now that the worry is the opposite, it seems almost unbelievable to live in a castle that witnessed such a thing. ] Y'know, back home, before the superflu hit... we thought it was gonna be the other way around. The seas were gonna overflow and wipe out billions of people, and the other disasters would take care of the rest. They said we had fifty years to fix things before it would be too late, mankind would be doomed.
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[ Look, Jaskier has already confirmed that the concept of zoos, of keeping animals just to have them, is a thing in their world too. Is it so hard to imagine people keeping fish for looking-at purposes? Giving them to dumb kids at the local fair as a prize for throwing a ball in a cup is a different story entirely, but just the idea of pet fish cannot be that unfathomable. The prettiest fish are all toxic anyway, so what else can be done with them?
Her brow furrows a little with thought as she considers what he says. She knows that whole oceans have dried on Earth before, but it was millions, if not billions, of years ago; now that the worry is the opposite, it seems almost unbelievable to live in a castle that witnessed such a thing. ] Y'know, back home, before the superflu hit... we thought it was gonna be the other way around. The seas were gonna overflow and wipe out billions of people, and the other disasters would take care of the rest. They said we had fifty years to fix things before it would be too late, mankind would be doomed.
Guess God didn't feel like waitin' it out.