the great wall of something, all right

[haruno]

When Marco had mentioned the Great Wall of China back when she'd first pod-popped, she'd figured he meant some sort of landmark for a place she didn't recognize. Next to a word like "sky-scraper," and she guessed that this landmark had to be significant enough, or at least big enough, to hold up against something with a name that implied a

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[livestoannoy]

Marco shrugged. "How the hell should I know?" he said. "I never studied Chinese history or whatever. It's a wall. It's big. People like to stand on it and take happy snaps."

He nodded to one of the nearby streets. If he remembered right, the Wall wasn't too far away from where they were now. "Come on, down this way."

[haruno]

Again, why exactly had she consented to this? Sakura rolled her eyes, changing direction at his indication. "Figures this is when I leave the camera I don't have at home." He clearly wasn't into this for the historical value. Then again, she should probably get around to asking if he was Chinese in the first place.

Eventually. For now, Sakura was content to lapse into silence, taking in her surroundings while sorting out how bizarre this city-within-a-spaceship really was.

"Why'd you ever mention it in the first place?"

[livestoannoy]

"Because I wasn't kidding when I said it was huge. Hell, you can see it from space. Or at least you could, before the Ohm went and decided to blow up the world."

Marco glanced around as he walked, but not with as much interest as Sakura. He'd already been this way before anyway - and after a while, you got used to the randomness of the City.

[haruno]

She paused, a hitch in her step as she tried to imagine how big something would have to be to be noticed from space. It was surprisingly difficult. "Now Stacy keeps it in the middle of the rest of her collections." In a way, it felt like some haphazard librarian doing their best to save what they could from a burning library. You couldn't reach everything before the flames, but what you could became all that more precious, if incomplete. "Another piece of what's otherwise gone missing."

She frowned, pulling herself out of whatever thoughts that statement lead into. "I take it you also don't know why it was built in the first place?"