@eugene.hicks

[preseance]

Evening, all.

Anyone fancy a trip to New Casablanca? Reckon there are plenty of us who could use something in the vein of a vacation given all we've managed lately. I know I ain't alone in knowing a few folk who could stand to relax some.

( he's not naming names, but. these people Know Who They Are. )

Just a day or two, probably heading out Friday and back Monday evening so's those of us working don't miss too many shifts. We'd be going by gate, so it wouldn't be too much out of our way time-wise.

@ gaby, may I have a moment of your time?

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[preseance]

Well, maybe you are.

[evocation]

MAYBE
what did girls wear to the beach in the 40s anyway?

[preseance]

Normal swimming costumes, generally?

( but he's been here long enough an' he ain't quite so fool as to think that it's the same now as then, so: )

Reckon there might'a been less skin showing, all told, but that's just life as it happens.

[evocation]

are you saying society is on like
a never-ending march to show more and more skin?
we're going to loop back around to being naked all the time?

[preseance]

No, not quite. I mean, the Greeks wrestled naked, didn't they? I think the division is mostly by gender in my day — trust me, three weeks in the army and you surely get used to having other men wander around naked as they day they were born. I can't speak as to what women do when they're alone with other gals, but I can't see it as being much different.

[evocation]

i didn't know you were a history buff

[preseance]

Ah... I ain't, really. Just happen to know a little about a lot.

[evocation]

are you a big reader or something?
or just a trivia fan?

[preseance]

( she asks that so casually, a big reader, like he ain't struggled with the written word every damn day'a his life until comin' here. somethin' about this place, the implant or some other manner'a miracle set his brain to rights, but the truth of it was he could barely read at all before. he thought he'd gotten past that little twang of inadequacy over it, but that brings it back an' drives it home all in the same breath, an' it's a little while before he gets back to her. not enough to be rude, just... a spell. )

Ah, no. Neither.

I don't talk about it much, but it don't make no difference here, so... back home, I can talk to the dead. Going back some thousand years or more, sometimes.

Guess it's cheating to get your history straight from the source.

[evocation]

[Of course, Kyna doesn't have that context, which might be for the better. She wouldn't care, but she'd worry that he did, and what a tangle that would be. But who cares, really, because what he actually reveals is far more interesting.]

holy shit, that's amazing
how do you talk to them, exactly? do you have to reach out to them or do they find you?

[preseance]

They come to me.

One of them described it like... finding a light in the dark, I guess.

[evocation]

wow
that's a pretty awesome way for someone to describe you, huh?