[He appreciates the answer, thin charade or not, and his smile falls away for something more sincere, more somber.]
Maybe. But people can get used to a lot. And everyone there was stuck in a jar too small for them.
If it's any comfort...the Orlop did feel a lot like the Engine Room. Not the specifics, but...I don't know. They way it was put together, all aesthetic and oddments. And everything in the Engine Room is, it's all the barge, wearing different hats. She's alive, but she's not trapped, she's flying. And she's glad we're here.
I know it's not like that for every ship. Ships from my world were all slaves inside, and that was worth fighting, even though I didn't know the consequences. I wouldn't mind buying our frog thief a drink, even though it all went sideways.
[If they weren't a BABY. Not that Jedao necessarily wouldn't give Nana a glass of honey wine anyway just to see what happened.]
But I have reason to hope that frog was enough a part of the Narrenschiff to feel like it was flying too, right from its spot.
Re: post October's everything
Maybe. But people can get used to a lot. And everyone there was stuck in a jar too small for them.
If it's any comfort...the Orlop did feel a lot like the Engine Room. Not the specifics, but...I don't know. They way it was put together, all aesthetic and oddments. And everything in the Engine Room is, it's all the barge, wearing different hats. She's alive, but she's not trapped, she's flying. And she's glad we're here.
I know it's not like that for every ship. Ships from my world were all slaves inside, and that was worth fighting, even though I didn't know the consequences. I wouldn't mind buying our frog thief a drink, even though it all went sideways.
[If they weren't a BABY. Not that Jedao necessarily wouldn't give Nana a glass of honey wine anyway just to see what happened.]
But I have reason to hope that frog was enough a part of the Narrenschiff to feel like it was flying too, right from its spot.