"Well. Where...when? I come from, the year was 2518. Earth That Was had long since been used up and abandoned, and humanity moved on to a new solar system where we colonized close to a hundred planets and moons that were made habitable through a technology called terraforming. The world I was born on was called Sihnon, and it's where a good deal of the people from the regions of China and Japan settled..."
Normally she would have broken that down into more manageable bits and pieces, it tended to overwhelm people all at once. She had a feeling that he could keep up, though. If anything, it would likely be the other way around as she tried to think of answers to all his questions...she was generally familiar with the lonely scientist type, and he had all the earmarks. Isolated men with high-paying careers were very frequent patrons of the Companion houses traditionally, especially on the Core worlds where they were more common than bureaucrats and noblemen.
"And hm...it's possible. It makes one wonder if simply wanting someone to appear enough would make it more inclined to happen, if that were the case." She couldn't really say, personally...it might be nice to have Simon here, especially with River running about loose and unsupervised. But for the most part everyone she could hope for was already here, made terribly convenient by the fact that everyone she could hope for was just one person.
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Normally she would have broken that down into more manageable bits and pieces, it tended to overwhelm people all at once. She had a feeling that he could keep up, though. If anything, it would likely be the other way around as she tried to think of answers to all his questions...she was generally familiar with the lonely scientist type, and he had all the earmarks. Isolated men with high-paying careers were very frequent patrons of the Companion houses traditionally, especially on the Core worlds where they were more common than bureaucrats and noblemen.
"And hm...it's possible. It makes one wonder if simply wanting someone to appear enough would make it more inclined to happen, if that were the case." She couldn't really say, personally...it might be nice to have Simon here, especially with River running about loose and unsupervised. But for the most part everyone she could hope for was already here, made terribly convenient by the fact that everyone she could hope for was just one person.