[ So, obviously this whole world is nuts and probably belongs in a cyberpunk novel he's never read, but at least he can still (mostly) recognize the earth spices in the market. ]
Are you asking because you are also from there, or because I seem particularly earth-like?
[ she shrugs awkwardly, that's about the sum of her thought process: he recognized the spice she needed. but she supposes "particularly earth-like" fits the bill as well. maybe he has an earthen quality to him.
no, no he looks like he also thinks this planet being called dirt is stupid. ]
I'm not from this galaxy and I don't do the cooking so I've not had the chance to learn every spice there is yet.
[ Humanity, for all its accomplishments and victories, certainly drew the short end of the stick for calling Earth what they did when there were plenty of other greater, better names. For sure.
Not that he thinks about this at all, though. It's never had to be a thing to think about until ... well, now. ]
Ah. Well, as a galaxy native, my knowledge in spices is admittedly still limited. My โ [ There's the slightest hitch of hesitation there, obvious enough anyway. ] โ brother is the one who cooks. [ He has also lived for over 900 years, so. ] He would probably be able to identify every spice here, unless something new has been discovered since 2020.
[ jyn makes that same pause when she talks about bodhi, which is a rare thing because fuck if she is going to admit to most people that she'd had a feeling once before in her life, so she assumes the brother in question is dead, despite the present tense. ]
Probably not the way they've treated the environment here.
[ which is a little funny to say in new amsterdam, all things considered, overflowing with greenery. but also they're in a city enclosed by an enormous wall so that humanity doesn't destroy what is left of the fertile land outside the city so also it's not funny.
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Oui. From a time about four-hundred years ago.
[ So, obviously this whole world is nuts and probably belongs in a cyberpunk novel he's never read, but at least he can still (mostly) recognize the earth spices in the market. ]
Are you asking because you are also from there, or because I seem particularly earth-like?
[ ... whatever that means. ]
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[ she shrugs awkwardly, that's about the sum of her thought process: he recognized the spice she needed. but she supposes "particularly earth-like" fits the bill as well. maybe he has an earthen quality to him.
no, no he looks like he also thinks this planet being called dirt is stupid. ]
I'm not from this galaxy and I don't do the cooking so I've not had the chance to learn every spice there is yet.
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Not that he thinks about this at all, though. It's never had to be a thing to think about until ... well, now. ]
Ah. Well, as a galaxy native, my knowledge in spices is admittedly still limited. My โ [ There's the slightest hitch of hesitation there, obvious enough anyway. ] โ brother is the one who cooks. [ He has also lived for over 900 years, so. ] He would probably be able to identify every spice here, unless something new has been discovered since 2020.
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Probably not the way they've treated the environment here.
[ which is a little funny to say in new amsterdam, all things considered, overflowing with greenery. but also they're in a city enclosed by an enormous wall so that humanity doesn't destroy what is left of the fertile land outside the city so also it's not funny.
hey! hey, earth! what the fuck. ]
More likely some have gone extinct.