I mean, I've seen aliens. A ton of them. [ He starts to regain his composure at this, grounding himself in the absurdity of his day-to-day life. ] And none of them were just skeletons.
[ And then he starts to process things. 211X means that wherever this happened, it was in maybe the 1100s, maybe earlier, and he- had no way of looking anything up to verify or puzzle out any of this. So he sighs, slumps his shoulders a bit, and- ]
Do you know anything about what the surface was like where you are, or what... what you and your people kind of look like?
[ An underground civilization of living skeletons would probably break him. It's what he's thinking of the dead prancing around in a terrestrial underworld, the stuff of legends and religions the world over, and it's making him anxious. ]
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[ And then he starts to process things. 211X means that wherever this happened, it was in maybe the 1100s, maybe earlier, and he- had no way of looking anything up to verify or puzzle out any of this. So he sighs, slumps his shoulders a bit, and- ]
Do you know anything about what the surface was like where you are, or what... what you and your people kind of look like?
[ An underground civilization of living skeletons would probably break him. It's what he's thinking of the dead prancing around in a terrestrial underworld, the stuff of legends and religions the world over, and it's making him anxious. ]