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[wait, the keysmash is stopping. whoever's fiddling with their comm has switched the video function, and now everyone can see the surprised face peering back.]
Uh, do I talk to it? Hello? Is this...is this London?
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[wait, the keysmash is stopping. whoever's fiddling with their comm has switched the video function, and now everyone can see the surprised face peering back.]
Uh, do I talk to it? Hello? Is this...is this London?
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No, I- I was told that London has many strange buildings, so I thought it might be this place.
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[He raises his left arm to cover the lower half of his face with the sleeve. It is something that Arthur was always scolding him for, but some habits died harder than others. Slim dark eyes narrowed further. This woman didn't look British, more... He wasn't sure. He had never seen a nation like her.]
Where are you from?
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[don't do that, she's not trying to be offensive!]
John Smith called it...the New World? Is that what all of you say it is?
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[It's a gesture of respect, actually, often towards people that one doesn't know well.]
I'm not sure. In the history books, that is what they called America. But you don't look like him.
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[aw, too bad she doesn't know that.]
A-mer-ica? I don't think I've heard that word before. What him? I think the only him I look like is my father.
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Wood. It depends on how rich the person that it belongs to is, but often the walls and roofs are painted.
Do all your people have eyes like yours, and a darker skin?
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Painted? What kind of designs? Do they ward off evil spirits?
My people do. But the people from England are practically white.
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Sometimes, but usually it is becuase it looks beautiful. Sunset and sunrise are much more beautiful there than anywhere else.
England's people are everywhere, but they do not belong there.
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I wouldn't know, but I love to watch the sun come up from a waterfall at home.
I think the white men could grow to belong here, if they make the effort.
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I have never been to your place, Father never allowed it, but it surely is nicer than where I live now. It is always dirty and the smoke of the fabrics and houses never really lifts from the city.
They always take, and never give anything of much worth.
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I've never seen anything else, so I can't compare. But everything is alive here. Nothing clings.
They're only people, the same as all of us.
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They don't think that about us, about everyone who isn't white, though. They might not always say it to your face, but they think that they are superior.
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Maybe they did at first, but they're growing. They don't believe that anyway.
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They do. I have lived among them for quite some time now, and I understand what they say even if they don't think that I do, and I see how they look at me and I hear what they say behind my back, or even when they know that I stand right there and am listening.
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Maybe yours are different from mine, then. Or they don't want to change.
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