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[athousandcurses]

I know that we are here voluntarily, and as such this may seem like an odd question to ask...

How do you adjust to not only come from a different planet, but a universe where everything is different? Does it make you happy or do you feel ever more homesick? I have heard it said that something familiar changed only a bit can be more unsettling than something completely alien.

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[una_persson]

Where and when are you from, exactly?

[athousandcurses]

[Unfortunately, Grainne took that to mean where she was before coming to Quadratus...]

From my world? Earth, where the year is 1996 by the Roman calendar.

[una_persson]

[Whoops. Rookie mistake.]

Oh, sorry, no, I meant—to begin with.

[Two thousand years before...?]

[athousandcurses]

Ah... [The answer to that is a little more complicated. Their culture loved oral traditions, but Grainne had felt keenly the draw backs of such a system when she had learned that most, if not all, of the old stories and histories from within Ireland had been squelched by the coming of the Church.]

Well, uncertain of the date, but from my earliest memories, I think it is around 130 A.D. to 250 A.D. by that calendar that I first lived. Hadrian's Wall is the best recorded historical landmark to measure by and it was well known before I was born.

[una_persson]

Ah.

[Una lets out a little exhalation, sort of the reverse of a gasp.]

And here I'm the one used to wrong-footing people over matters of Time. [Though clearly she doesn't resent Grainne for this; indeed she's rather amused.] I hope I haven't been accidentally condescending.

[athousandcurses]

No. [Grainne's only confused.] Why would you be? My first life was a long time ago.

[una_persson]

I don't often run across people with two thousand years of life experience. I tend to assume that most people live in a linear mode for ordinary spans.

...I'm Una, by the way. I don't think I mentioned. Terribly rude of me.

[athousandcurses]

Well, it isn't all two thousand years... I have been asleep for a long time.

[She doesn't really want to get into the whole thing about being dead and Servants, really.]

Grainne. It is nice to meet you.

[una_persson]

[Una feels like she's picked and prodded quite enough for the time being.]

The pleasure's all mine. I'll see more of you about, I hope?

[athousandcurses]

Perhaps. I am out exploring quite often.

[una_persson]

As am I.

Anytime you'd like to talk, I'm fairly easy to find.