[And here comes Caesar, a little groggy from just having woken up. He peeks around the corner, curious as to the source of the strange chant. Green eyes widen hugely as they spot the small boy.]
Oh runes.
[He scrubs his face wearily with his hands and emerges into the room after a moment, still staring.]
The Sindar ... they are an ancient race, millions of years in the shaping. Once they walked the world, building fantastic cities full of strange magic, strange machines that few living have even begun to decipher.
But something happened; no one knows, but it destroyed them. Now, across the earth, there is nothing left but the magic that lingers in the ruins that were once their cities and temples, and books no one knows how to read.
Oh wow... [Ran is listening to Caesar's story with eyes growing wider than saucers, leaning closer as if not wanting to miss a word.]
They sound like dinosaurs... except magical! Hm. I once heard a myth about Saurians, who were like dinosaurs but magical, too! What do the Sindars look like?
Like us? [That makes Ran ponder for a while, silencing the little redhead to look at his hands still fiddling with the pages of his journal. Then he's beaming up at Caesar.] Then you could be one and not know!
Really, I once watched this program. They said that dinosaurs still were living too. As birds. That dinosaurs had been evolved into birds and reptiles. I guess that could happen to Sindar, too!
[Caesar laughs at that, shaking his head.] Ah, not me, I'm afraid -- my parents are both as human as they come.
The knowledge your people possess is ... surprising, really. Most of my people feel that such thoughts are the realm of scholars alone. Evolution certainly wouldn't surprise me, though -- Sindar are said to live for a long, long time, so it's entirely possible that some of them had children with humans, if humans weren't Sindar at one point in history, anyway.
Oh runes.
[He scrubs his face wearily with his hands and emerges into the room after a moment, still staring.]
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But something happened; no one knows, but it destroyed them. Now, across the earth, there is nothing left but the magic that lingers in the ruins that were once their cities and temples, and books no one knows how to read.
Extinct, like your dinosaurs.
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They sound like dinosaurs... except magical! Hm. I once heard a myth about Saurians, who were like dinosaurs but magical, too! What do the Sindars look like?
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It's hard to say. We don't have these computers of yours, but from the bones, it'd be an easy thing to say that the Sindar looked just like us.
Magical dinosaurs, huh? I hope they were nice.
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Really, I once watched this program. They said that dinosaurs still were living too. As birds. That dinosaurs had been evolved into birds and reptiles. I guess that could happen to Sindar, too!
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The knowledge your people possess is ... surprising, really. Most of my people feel that such thoughts are the realm of scholars alone. Evolution certainly wouldn't surprise me, though -- Sindar are said to live for a long, long time, so it's entirely possible that some of them had children with humans, if humans weren't Sindar at one point in history, anyway.
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