lili & kaoru need less money

[coastal]

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[coastal]

What do you mean modern...

[should she be offended... she's going to assume she should be and just frown a little]

Mm, well, he is a bird. I'd say his fears are warranted.

[twinsightful]

With technology, like video games and cell phones and computers. [It's almost a challenge?]

And who knows. The horse didn't seem that scared of being here.

[Kaoru had a long day talking to animals, basically.]

[coastal]

[ . . . . . she's definitely looking frustrated because he's? speaking? another fucking language all of a sudden?]

Talk normally!

[CLEARLY that's what's happening here]

[twinsightful]

[!?]

I am! What about this isn't normal?

[coastal]

I didn't understand half of the words you used!

[LANGUAGE IS BREAKING

she's going to try to repeat them]

Kon... pyu...?

[?????]

[twinsightful]

[A frown. Lili plz.]

Computer. It's sort of like pen and paper, but digital. [...oh!] Did you meet Shess?

[coastal]

Oh! His technology?

[????]

Your land has that as well?

[twinsightful]

Yes. Not exactly the same but very similar. If I had my phone I'd show you but I woke up here without it. But a computer is like that. You can put in information and it'll spit it back out.

[coastal]

If you ever see one here, point it out to me.

[SHE WANTS TO SEE IT]

My land could benefit from having one.

[twinsightful]

[Lili...there's a twitch of a grin.]

If you don't have things like that, what do you have?

[coastal]

[??? she tilts her head]

By way of technology...? Mmm... Crossbows, I suppose...

[does

does that count as technology]

Nothing like what you're describing... Many of our books are still hand-printed. I want one of Shess' tablets for myself because it could be useful for spreading literacy!

[twinsightful]

Crossbows are weapons...[But he holds open the door for the library to let her inside first.]

A few people have different devices that they brought in. Shess has a tablet, Axel has a phone...I wonder how people are going to charge their stuff though.

[coastal]

Charge...?

[cavalry...? charge...?]

Mm, I'll ask Axel about his device.

[twinsightful]

Electricity. [...] Condensed lightning? [No.]

I don't know what a gummiphone is, but it has phone in it. He should know.

[He's stepping ahead to grab a notebook that's lying on a table.] We can use this.

[coastal]

[no..... she just shakes her head]

You all can capture lightning?

[how is that possible!! but in that case she'll go to retrieve.... a pen? she squints at it]

Is this a writing utensil?

[she's still in the ink brush stage of history]

[twinsightful]

Not exactly. That's actually pretty bad, don't do that. But electricity is a little hard to explain. [But he looks at her, smiling a little because wow it's like a martian. He's flipping open the notebook then to bring up a fresh page.]

That's a pen. You really don't have these?

[coastal]

It sounds useful... I want to know more about it.

[and she's actually going to look around]

And this is a pen...? Is that ink on the inside?

[she's going to wander off]

I'm going to find books on these subjects.

What else do I need to learn?

[twinsightful]

[He's going to follow her? Lili stop.]

About modern society? [...] You have indoor plumbing in your weird rural country, right? Like showers.

[This shouldn't be his question, but. Here we are.] And stoves? Ovens? Mechanical pencils?

[coastal]

[ . . . . she glances over at him in confusion]

... hm...?

What are all of those for?

[she's going to look around the different categories of books]

What genre would those be in?

[twinsightful]

Self-help? [He might just be making fun of her. It's fine.] Showers are running water for bathing, but supposedly there're hot springs here. And ovens and stoves are for other people to make food for us.

[No. But he's following...] A map of this place would help.

[coastal]

[she's walking toward self-help fuck u

she knows what an oven is sort in the crudest sense of the word, given that it's more or less still just a firepit that you can put food in to cook]

We can draw one.

[sure but]

I know what hot springs are... but it seems I have much to learn.

[twinsightful]

[...it's reminiscent of someone else. Teaching them how things work, being alarmed by how little they know. It's very much two different worlds here and it's funny to him.

His eyes are busy glancing at some of the self-help books, maybe looking for something specific but keeping up with the conversation.]

There're things I'm still learning myself. [He can admit that, at least.] And I've met some others here who aren't used to things on Earth either.

[...Cinnabar...] Why bring people from different places if they don't know the same things?

[coastal]

[NONE OF THESE BOOKS ARE ABOUT INDOOR PLUMBING, KAORU

she's still looking very diligently because she believed him???]

If it was just an information exchange, I wouldn't mind... If I can at least bring things I learn back to my country, then it's not a total loss.

However, holding people against their will is cruel.

[twinsightful]

[They're both stupid it's fine.]

...do you really think we're here against our will? [It's a question he broaches cautiously.] None of us actually remember how we got here, and I don't think most of us would have come here quietly.

[coastal]

If we agreed to be here, then what's the point of removing it from our memory?

It would've made us more compliant if we remembered our own reasoning.

[she's

getting close to the end of the aisle]

... I didn't see any books on stoves...