School
I was a teacher in high school. Kids kept asking me about the other dimension, and that wasn't supposed to be common knowledge yet, so I kept denying it. However some of the kids were the intelligent, clue-full, industrious type and I knew they'd work it out somehow, so I started warning them of the dangers that the other dimension held.
I was a school kid in the other dimension, attending a good private school in Ballarat (no, not that one, but the uniform was remarkably similar I think) and I kept sitting next to this nice lady and school was going well. Then 5th lesson started and we got handed a small test and it was the fill-in-the-words type, except it was about mathematical patterns in word groupings, and 1/2 of the words were strange, and I was just stuck! And I suddenly started to realise just how much catching up I had to do. Then a whole bunch of other students came in and started taking extra seats and stuff, and the nice lady explained that they had a PE class before this one, but there was no time to shower in that class, so they showered at the start of this class. Then nice lady and I were broken up ;( Later during break I was chatting with her and some of her friends and they kept asking me where I was from, how could I tell them? We decided to call it America. Nice lady liked castles, and I asked if she'd seen Kryal Kastle.
I was going down levels in a tall narrow food court, a cheap place for working families, mostly Asian food. I was chatting with a woman and her son about the menu, they were worrying if it was translated properly. I quickly read it and told them that it was fine. The were amazed at that and asked how many languages I spoke. I could easily speak over 40 human languages, and they wondered how I could learn so many. How could I tell them that human languages were just so similar.
It was morning and I was on the way to school. Traffic in this part of town was a nightmare at this time of day, and the busses had it bad. They were jumping in and out of lanes and just catching one was really hard. I was late so I missed my bus ;( I knew then that I couldn't make it to school on time. I could never move very quickly over this patch of ground. Even reaching ahead and grabbing onto reality and pulling it under me couldn't get me moving as fast as the traffic. This land was just slow somehow.
I was a school kid in the other dimension, attending a good private school in Ballarat (no, not that one, but the uniform was remarkably similar I think) and I kept sitting next to this nice lady and school was going well. Then 5th lesson started and we got handed a small test and it was the fill-in-the-words type, except it was about mathematical patterns in word groupings, and 1/2 of the words were strange, and I was just stuck! And I suddenly started to realise just how much catching up I had to do. Then a whole bunch of other students came in and started taking extra seats and stuff, and the nice lady explained that they had a PE class before this one, but there was no time to shower in that class, so they showered at the start of this class. Then nice lady and I were broken up ;( Later during break I was chatting with her and some of her friends and they kept asking me where I was from, how could I tell them? We decided to call it America. Nice lady liked castles, and I asked if she'd seen Kryal Kastle.
I was going down levels in a tall narrow food court, a cheap place for working families, mostly Asian food. I was chatting with a woman and her son about the menu, they were worrying if it was translated properly. I quickly read it and told them that it was fine. The were amazed at that and asked how many languages I spoke. I could easily speak over 40 human languages, and they wondered how I could learn so many. How could I tell them that human languages were just so similar.
It was morning and I was on the way to school. Traffic in this part of town was a nightmare at this time of day, and the busses had it bad. They were jumping in and out of lanes and just catching one was really hard. I was late so I missed my bus ;( I knew then that I couldn't make it to school on time. I could never move very quickly over this patch of ground. Even reaching ahead and grabbing onto reality and pulling it under me couldn't get me moving as fast as the traffic. This land was just slow somehow.