[ His laugh is quiet, short, but it's there. He misses when it was only that. Wandering until he found something worth killing. Doing it until the first sign of winter, and then he'd start north.
He picks up his mug again, rests it on a leg. Climate change is not a concept that's yet introduced into his sphere, but people fucking up the planet is nothing new. He thinks of Julie saying billions, a population size he can't fully comprehend but which, now that she says it, only makes sense the world might collapse under the sheer scale of it. The Continent holds a few million at most. Curious, though, that their ice age came to pass and the world seems to have recovered. He supposes that's always what happens. The Conjunction had not exactly wiped out all life. Just threw it into turmoil and now here they all are. Surviving on the same piece of land someone had predicted the end of.
Dinosaurs, though, hold more familiarity. ]
They're draconids. For us. [ Geralt sounds thoughtful, too. He presumes they're roughly the same. Related, at the very least. What else could monster lizards be? ] Like a wyvern. Some mistake them for genuine dragons.
[ How long ago did she say. Millions of years? He tilts his head, considering what this means. ] Your world may not be so devoid of monsters after all. Maybe they simply died out before your time. Became stories instead.
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He picks up his mug again, rests it on a leg. Climate change is not a concept that's yet introduced into his sphere, but people fucking up the planet is nothing new. He thinks of Julie saying billions, a population size he can't fully comprehend but which, now that she says it, only makes sense the world might collapse under the sheer scale of it. The Continent holds a few million at most. Curious, though, that their ice age came to pass and the world seems to have recovered. He supposes that's always what happens. The Conjunction had not exactly wiped out all life. Just threw it into turmoil and now here they all are. Surviving on the same piece of land someone had predicted the end of.
Dinosaurs, though, hold more familiarity. ]
They're draconids. For us. [ Geralt sounds thoughtful, too. He presumes they're roughly the same. Related, at the very least. What else could monster lizards be? ] Like a wyvern. Some mistake them for genuine dragons.
[ How long ago did she say. Millions of years? He tilts his head, considering what this means. ] Your world may not be so devoid of monsters after all. Maybe they simply died out before your time. Became stories instead.