[Sixth Strike]: [Accidental Audio]

[warriortigra]

[mutter]

What's wrong now, Ahime?

Twenty-four.

... come again?

Twenty-four! I'm going to be twenty four! In five days!

... this... is a problem how?TWENTY. FOUR. I wasn't supposed to survive this long! I'm a twenty-four year old displaced college student IN ANOTHER WORLD. Aaaaauugh! [several sounds of angered exasperation. Ari waits patiently

Comments

[fasternlightbot]

I thought twenty-four was young by human standards.

[warriortigra]

There's an old adage...

"You're only as old as you feel."

I feel about fifty most of the time, so I'm not looking forward to actually living that long and feeling worse.

[fasternlightbot]

You can feel ages? You humans are weirder then I thought.

[warriortigra]

You can feel the physical deterioration of the mortal human body over time. When we're born, if we're born healthy, we're strong and energetic and ready for anything. But the older we get the more our body wears down. Disease, disorders, injuries, just general wear and tear... it all takes a toll eventually.

[fasternlightbot]

Okay.... that's creepy.

[warriortigra]

Human condition, much as we may hate it.

... or was it just the way I said it that was creepy?

[fasternlightbot]

The whole thing. You're slowly falling apart... but aren't you suppose to be able to heal yourselves?

[warriortigra]

Eeeh... yes and no? To a small degree we can, but after a while even that stops working.

[fasternlightbot]

That's sad. And by that I mean the pathetic sad.

[warriortigra]

We make due with what we've got, for the most part. You can think it pathetic if you want.

[fasternlightbot]

I will. Because you humans should have fixed your falling apart problem a long time ago.

[warriortigra]

Wouldn't that require a specific level of medical and technological advancement?

[fasternlightbot]

You've had plenty of time to get that too.

[warriortigra]

Nah, I think the Dark Ages set us back a couple hundred years. The Black Plague and a few other incidents in our history didn't exactly help, either.

[fasternlightbot]

Then maybe you shouldn't have let those happen.

[warriortigra]

Maybe if you put down the attitude and picked up an Earth history text book you'd realize there wasn't a whole hell of a lot that could be done back then.