taxonomites | 06| Location: Old Sanctuary| Always chocking from the stench and the fume

Kobra was still skeptical about this, but for some reason he wanted to trust James. Maybe because he reminded him a little of Jet Star. The entire calm and responsible and reasonable thing, maybe. After he had picked the lock Party and him had made a quick escape and Kobra had gotten his jacket back from the roof. He felt a little better just for wearing it. But he still couldn't sleep and everything seemed to press down on his chest. The smoke hadn't been too good for his already abused lungs.

He was restless and knowing that he couldn't escape was driving Kobra mad, like a tiger pacing in a cage. at least in the desert he knew that he could drive, drive until he reached the end of the world if he wanted to. He'd wandered around the city for a while until he felt ready to fall asleep in a doorway, which wouldn't really do him any good, so he got out the tablet and navigated to the place James had given him the coordinates for.

It looked....exceptionally weird and Kobra got even more apprehensive. Maybe coming here hadn't been a good idea, but if the guy had a piano...well. Kobra was easily bribed with those kinds of things in addition to his general disregard for his own safety. Squinting behind his sunglasses he looked up at the building and wrinkled his nose before shrugging and making for the front door, only feeling a tiny bit awkward as he knocked. He hadn't knocked on doors in ages, and this was more a vague memory from his time in the city than actual, ingrained manners. In the desert you got out your gun and kicked doors out of the way, that's how you entered a building. Kobra had a feeling that the citizens here wouldn't appreciate it and after Party's and his recent stunt they'd better lay low for a little while.

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"The ocean also holds many, many wonders in it. It is a fascinating place, one of the few frontiers left to explore." James replied, though he fully agreed with Kobra. The ocean was amazing.

James chuckled slightly at that, he understood how some people were. "You're welcome, and if possible tea over coffee. It helps to soothe the throat better from the coughing and will hydrate him better as well."

Kobra nodded in agreement. "I think...I think I'd like to learn how to swim," he said thoughtfully. So far he's just waded into the water until it came up to his waist, nothing more.

"He loves coffee. But...it's not an option anyway, so," he shrugged again with a wry smile. They didn't drink or eat anything from the city.

James nodded again at that, a smile quirking on his lips. "Useful skill, knowing how to swim. I would teach you myself but...you can see where it would be difficult yes?" He was referring to the chest piece specifically.

"Do not trust the shops here?" He didn't either, at least with his tea. Coffee was disgusting to him really. "You could brew your own coffee, if you know how."

"Yeah," Kobra agreed with a small, wry smile. "I don't know, I guess for now I'm good just...watching." It was the only time he could sit still for hours, watching the waves.

"Really?" His eyes widened at James' words. "How? Can you tell me?"

"I'm sure someone here knows how to swim if you would like to learn at some point." But he wasn't going to push it, as he enjoyed watching himself.

"Yes really," he started and then he shrugged slightly, "Coffee is not a specialty of mine, I prefer tea. But if you can find a camp fire coffee pot and coffee grounds then yes you can brew your own coffee." He dug out a piece of paper and a pen from his bag and started to write down how, taking it slow as he really wasn't that familiar with the art of coffee making.

Kobra was almost glued to James' side then, because, well, coffee. Party would love him for this. Though he had no idea where to get coffee grounds that wouldn't be suspicious. Nothing from a store.

"You really know a lot of stuff, huh?"

James chuckled as Kobra watched him write things down, and he made sure that his usually tight, clean print was even more so, just because of what he knew about his eyes. Where he got coffee grounds or beans James wasn't sure and couldn't help him with though.

"At 160 years old one tends to know quite a bit. And I do enjoy reading, and learning."

"160?" Kobra asked, eyes widening. "Wow. You sure don't look your age," he said with a grin. "That's really...shiny though. You musta seen a lot of things."

"This device, keeps me as I appear before you," he tapped his chest when he said it, rather used to the need for explanations now. But then he chuckled, "Yes I have, a great many things."

"Shiny," Kobra said, head tilted to the side. "What's been your favourite time period then?"

James tilted his head back as he thought, that was a hard thing to decide on really. "The early nineteen hundreds, so much innovation in such a short time."

"How was it before then?" Kobra asked. He'd never really learnt about history. He just knew that things had been different before the Helium Wars.

"Much more simple, little electricity, no cars. Everything took time, and patience was needed." He said it fondly, his Victorian roots showing through. Yes things had changed for the better over time but he still did miss certain things.

"No cars?" Kobra asked, because it was the thing that startled him most. They only had little electricity out in the zones as well and the generators died on a frequent basis, sending Jet into exasperation as he tried to repair them. "But how did you get around then?"

Well they had cars later on, the Model T had been fun to drive in reality, but not a car as Kobra would know it really. So he chuckled some at the reaction and shrugged, "Trains, buggies drawn by horses, walking. It was a much slower time."

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