[ He nods in understanding. So there's some version of Earth out there with pointy-eared folk, then. And sure, why not? That seems just as likely as anything else, given everything that's happened to them so far. ]
Oh, I'm human all right. All we got where I'm from, just boring ol' humans, whether they're from Earth or Mars or the Moon. Anyway, I wasn't born there. Place wasn't even terraformed yet when I was a pipsqueak, y'see. No, I come from a cozy lil' patch of space called L2 V-08744.
[ From the way he draws out 'cozy,' one can easily infer that Maxwell's birthplace wasn't cozy at all.
His expression doesn't sour, however. He's left the bitterness of those days long behind, he'd like to think. ]
Anyway, Mars - [ he bounces off the subject lightly, deliberately ] - that's brand new territory, still pretty wild.
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[ He nods in understanding. So there's some version of Earth out there with pointy-eared folk, then. And sure, why not? That seems just as likely as anything else, given everything that's happened to them so far. ]
Oh, I'm human all right. All we got where I'm from, just boring ol' humans, whether they're from Earth or Mars or the Moon. Anyway, I wasn't born there. Place wasn't even terraformed yet when I was a pipsqueak, y'see. No, I come from a cozy lil' patch of space called L2 V-08744.
[ From the way he draws out 'cozy,' one can easily infer that Maxwell's birthplace wasn't cozy at all.
His expression doesn't sour, however. He's left the bitterness of those days long behind, he'd like to think. ]
Anyway, Mars - [ he bounces off the subject lightly, deliberately ] - that's brand new territory, still pretty wild.