[ If that's what he wants, maybe he should stop fucking around with Destiny, huh?
Julie has never known a world population counted in millions, although she does know that the population boom is fairly recent in human history. But from what she has gathered, most worlds that aren't simply other versions of her Earth seem to be much smaller, many with less people on the planet than just the population of America. Some have sounded even tinier than Kansas, which is a terrifying thought for a number of reasons. Even the size of Abraxas unnerves her in its minuteness, and from her best understanding, it is not nearly as small as the homes of some of the others.
She hums and nods, thinking again about the only kinds of dragons she can really imagine -- European-style ones and Chinese ones. Ciri had said that wyverns were basically flying snakes, which to her just sounds like Chinese dragons, and who's to say that there weren't, once upon a time, enormous snakes with wings? There are plenty of huge animals that don't exist anymore. Why is it categorically accepted that dinosaurs aren't monsters? They sure sound like monsters to her. ] Maybe. I know there's some mythological animals that they just didn't understand what they really were. Like mermaids were probably sailors describing manatees, which just says a lot about men in general, but then there's other stuff that we don't really have an answer for. Monsters that every culture seems to have its own version of, even though they really shouldn't because of how far apart they were. Like, if two groups of people on different continents both have dragons, then there must have been somethin' that made 'em both think that.
Ciri told me about wyverns, they sound a lot like these dragons that they have on the other side of the world from where I lived. Long snakey dragons with tiny lil' legs. Dragons from my culture, they breathe fire and have wings, I think they really like gold, maybe? Or like, treasure. They have big piles of it. And they look more like dinosaurs than snakes. So it would make sense if they were different animals.
[ If anyone had told her a year ago that she would end up spending this much time thinking about monsters, she would have told them to fuck off. ]
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If that's what he wants, maybe he should stop fucking around with Destiny, huh?Julie has never known a world population counted in millions, although she does know that the population boom is fairly recent in human history. But from what she has gathered, most worlds that aren't simply other versions of her Earth seem to be much smaller, many with less people on the planet than just the population of America. Some have sounded even tinier than Kansas, which is a terrifying thought for a number of reasons. Even the size of Abraxas unnerves her in its minuteness, and from her best understanding, it is not nearly as small as the homes of some of the others.
She hums and nods, thinking again about the only kinds of dragons she can really imagine -- European-style ones and Chinese ones. Ciri had said that wyverns were basically flying snakes, which to her just sounds like Chinese dragons, and who's to say that there weren't, once upon a time, enormous snakes with wings? There are plenty of huge animals that don't exist anymore. Why is it categorically accepted that dinosaurs aren't monsters? They sure sound like monsters to her. ] Maybe. I know there's some mythological animals that they just didn't understand what they really were. Like mermaids were probably sailors describing manatees, which just says a lot about men in general, but then there's other stuff that we don't really have an answer for. Monsters that every culture seems to have its own version of, even though they really shouldn't because of how far apart they were. Like, if two groups of people on different continents both have dragons, then there must have been somethin' that made 'em both think that.
Ciri told me about wyverns, they sound a lot like these dragons that they have on the other side of the world from where I lived. Long snakey dragons with tiny lil' legs. Dragons from my culture, they breathe fire and have wings, I think they really like gold, maybe? Or like, treasure. They have big piles of it. And they look more like dinosaurs than snakes. So it would make sense if they were different animals.
[ If anyone had told her a year ago that she would end up spending this much time thinking about monsters, she would have told them to fuck off. ]