we are not truly immortal
May. 18th, 2013 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dark_lightAfter Glass's party is over with, Amariah and Kas go home.
Amariah fetches down their alethiometers.
"It's about time I took care of Alethia's afterlife, whatever it may be," she says quietly. "What can the alethiometer tell you about what I'll find?"
Amariah fetches down their alethiometers.
"It's about time I took care of Alethia's afterlife, whatever it may be," she says quietly. "What can the alethiometer tell you about what I'll find?"
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Date: 2013-05-22 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-22 11:45 pm (UTC)He asks.
"...So there's this stuff called - the concept I'm getting is something like 'sparkles'," he says. "It's a particle, but it doesn't work like most other particles. It's generated by conscious thought. If somebody makes this stuff, they're a person. So you can tell who is and who's not, empirically. That should be enough to wish on, right? If there's even a coin big enough to do that."
He asks that, too.
"There are no coins big enough to do that currently in this worldsheaf," he says.
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Date: 2013-05-22 11:53 pm (UTC)She pauses.
"Kas?"
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Date: 2013-05-22 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-05-22 11:58 pm (UTC)He asks the alethiometer.
"No," he says. "They're - kind of symbols. Like the ones on the alethiometer, but a different set, for a different purpose."
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Date: 2013-05-23 12:01 am (UTC)Amariah allows herself a minute to process this information.
And then she says:
"Okay."
And she asks Jane to kindly inquire of Brilliance if he'd be willing to make a couple tenners, and she sits and thinks about the afterlife she is going to make.