we feel misfortunes deep and keen

[dark_light]

Pensive cuddling goes on a long time.

Path nudges against Kas occasionally, almost like he's testing over and over to see if it hurts, but he never flinches, so it must not.

Comments

[telesonorous]

"But they seem to be more the same," she says thoughtfully. "I hadn't noticed, but it's interesting."

[dark_light]

"It's almost as though species - and planet Earth, if not so much others - are templates like kinds of individual people are. And have more or less variation and commonality."

[telesonorous]

"Yeah," says Kalavar. "Huh. There aren't any other planets that template like that, then?"

[dark_light]

"Well, Earths come with Marses and so on. And Jane finds the stars familiar world to world and can use them to figure when and where her vantage point is, and they're pretty similar in Rêverie, which is very Earth-like but has a variant history. But there's nothing we've found yet that is as similar to Chronicle's or Thilanushinyel's planets."

[telesonorous]

"Do Chronicle and Thilanushinyel have familiar stars, or no?"

[dark_light]

"No, they're different. Materia might be too, and Lake, Jane hasn't checked yet that I know of."

[telesonorous]

"It would be interesting to know," she says. "Does the light in different worlds feel different?"

[dark_light]

"A little. Not by very much, in the worlds we've been to. But we haven't been to Chronicle or Thilanushinyel at night, so they might be different."

[telesonorous]

"Moonlight on the moon is amazing," she says. "Have you ever been?"

[dark_light]

"My Isabella has. I wasn't there myself but she agreed with you."

[telesonorous]

"You should go sometime," she says. "It's even better when you turn invisible so you don't cast shadows."

[dark_light]

"That's a good idea," agrees Path.

[telesonorous]

Kalavar giggles.

[dark_light]

"Stella has her palace on her moon. We haven't decided where to put ours, but we're thinking the new land of the dead, since it's cheap for us to modify things there."

[telesonorous]

"A palace on the moon would probably be distracting," says Kalavar.

[truthwright]

"No kidding," says Petaal.

[dark_light]

"Yes," agrees Path. "Not just the moonlight but the unobstructed stars, all day long. So probably either the land of the dead, or one of the poles."

[telesonorous]

"The land of the dead would be more... legendary," says Kalavar. "And harder for people to show up and bother you. Well, depending where you put it, I guess."

[dark_light]

"We think we are legendary enough already. More than enough," shudders Path. "That movie poster looked awful."

[telesonorous]

"There's lots more," says Kalavar. "Not very many of them are that bad, though."

[dark_light]

"You've seen them?"

[telesonorous]

"The posters, yeah. We skipped the movies."

[dark_light]

"We would not be happy about it if awful movies about us were a primary source of information about us for you."

[telesonorous]

"Awful movies aren't a good source of information about anything," says Kalavar.

[dark_light]

"Yes. But we don't know what else there was to go by. We have never been legendary and extremely missing before."