Though I prefer to think of it as a partnership. I don't agree with the restrictions placed on anyone with "inmate" status, so....if there's anything you need, anywhere you can't get access, just give me a call, and I'll get it for you. It's not perfect--
[It still highlights the power differences present between the two groups.]
--but I'm here to make things easier, any way I can.
That works for me, certainly. I'll try not to take too much advantage.
[ Orpheus yawns and takes a sip of his orange juice. ]
Honestly though, the part where I have to go through an extra step to get a wish granted by our all-powerful host aside, I feel like I'm pretty well taken care of here. But if anything comes up, I'll be sure to let you know.
[ The question doesn't seem to bother Orpheus at all, who just shrugs. ]
More or less, yes. I mean, I've lived in nicer places in some ways, but some of the things I've gotten to experience here - they more than make up for it. Like, I'd only ever seen the sky once before winding up here.
Sort of underground? Not in caves, or anything, but...
[ He pauses for a second, thinking. It's tough to assume much of anything about where a given person comes from or knows about in a place like this, but for a frame of reference he knows they can probably both relate to- ]
Imagine if someone took a city like the London we just visited, and just... didn't stop building. Just kept stacking catwalks and roads and train tracks and even buildings on top of the existing city until eventually the whole sky is blotted out except for the people on the very top level, and even then it's mostly filled with smog. That's what it's like where I'm from. It's nothing but city, everywhere.
Well, we've got farms? I don't know if that counts as natural, exactly. The planet's pretty much entirely mined out, too, so new material coming in is all from the mining colonies. It's pretty dire.
People've been predicting that we're all going to die from something or other for thousands of years now, so it's sort of hard to say who has a point? [ Especially when the respectable oracles won't say anything on the subject, probably for censorship reasons. ] You get kind of desensitized to all the doomsaying, even when it's probably right.
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npnp!
[He settles into the seat across from Orpheus.]
Though I prefer to think of it as a partnership. I don't agree with the restrictions placed on anyone with "inmate" status, so....if there's anything you need, anywhere you can't get access, just give me a call, and I'll get it for you. It's not perfect--
[It still highlights the power differences present between the two groups.]
--but I'm here to make things easier, any way I can.
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[ Orpheus yawns and takes a sip of his orange juice. ]
Honestly though, the part where I have to go through an extra step to get a wish granted by our all-powerful host aside, I feel like I'm pretty well taken care of here. But if anything comes up, I'll be sure to let you know.
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Are you from one of those worlds that makes this place look easy, then?
[Ford does his very best to ask it with sensitivity. It's not casual; his tone's sympathetic, and if Orpheus doesn't want to answer, it's fine.]
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More or less, yes. I mean, I've lived in nicer places in some ways, but some of the things I've gotten to experience here - they more than make up for it. Like, I'd only ever seen the sky once before winding up here.
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[ He pauses for a second, thinking. It's tough to assume much of anything about where a given person comes from or knows about in a place like this, but for a frame of reference he knows they can probably both relate to- ]
Imagine if someone took a city like the London we just visited, and just... didn't stop building. Just kept stacking catwalks and roads and train tracks and even buildings on top of the existing city until eventually the whole sky is blotted out except for the people on the very top level, and even then it's mostly filled with smog. That's what it's like where I'm from. It's nothing but city, everywhere.
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Is everything artificial? Are there any natural resources left at all?
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Eesh. How long's it projected to last before it destabilizes?
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People've been predicting that we're all going to die from something or other for thousands of years now, so it's sort of hard to say who has a point? [ Especially when the respectable oracles won't say anything on the subject, probably for censorship reasons. ] You get kind of desensitized to all the doomsaying, even when it's probably right.