I couldn't, for the first few hours. Stroke of luck that I mentioned bein' worried about James and I just about got gently mauled when I said his name. It took a little guess work and a little leap of faith..
If I can go overboard, lose fifteen years off my face and become someone else all together.. Dinosaurs isn't that far of a jump, even if it's a weird as hell one.
[Says the boy who woke up 400 years in the future with an adult body, no memories, and secretly an alien. On the other hand, with a far-flung space empire that's long forgotten Earth, there were no dinosaur fossils to make it a standard childhood obsession.]
Mm, well after testin' out everything else that I had said and narrowin' it down..
[You could hear the shrug in his tone.]
Do you think I'm wrong? That your Warden Item is on the fritz? Wouldn't be the first time it's happened but that don't explain why a horsed sized Raptor didn't tear me limb from limb. No nips. No feralness. Tried to shove himself down the stairwell when I left him the first time, to the point where I was worried he'd hurt himself.
Sure as shit never thought I'd be in a place where I was entertainin' the idea that anyone was a goddamned Dinosaur. Or that I'd be huntin' 'em. How're you finding Jurassic Park?
[There's something small, something young to his voice. A quiet wonder that is almost as much for the trees as for the dinosaurs. Aside from the Enclosure, he's never been outside on a planet before.]
[He wouldn't call that defensive, but he didn't care for suggestion that he was treating James some kind of way that was inappropriate.]
Earth. Specifically the South. [It was one of those 'if you know, you know' situations.]
But you're welcome to ask James if he feels mistreated in any way. [In his experience, people who shouted from the rooftops that they didn't do one thing or another usually had, or had something worse to hide.]
[If Jedao wasn't James's Warden, Raylan would be a little more reluctant to answer, reluctant to open that part of the proverbial book, and he has to remind himself that they're theoretically on the same side.]
He's been staying with me since before the .. weird change of visitors. A handful of days before. We've only just recently made it.. official. [Stringing it all together, outloud, was new and hard. It shouldn't be a big deal. It still was.]
I take it you're not from Earth. Where are you from?
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I...found him.
How could you tell? I kept thinking my item was fucked up James got eaten by a weirdly friendly horse-dragon.
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If I can go overboard, lose fifteen years off my face and become someone else all together.. Dinosaurs isn't that far of a jump, even if it's a weird as hell one.
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[Says the boy who woke up 400 years in the future with an adult body, no memories, and secretly an alien. On the other hand, with a far-flung space empire that's long forgotten Earth, there were no dinosaur fossils to make it a standard childhood obsession.]
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[You could hear the shrug in his tone.]
Do you think I'm wrong? That your Warden Item is on the fritz? Wouldn't be the first time it's happened but that don't explain why a horsed sized Raptor didn't tear me limb from limb. No nips. No feralness. Tried to shove himself down the stairwell when I left him the first time, to the point where I was worried he'd hurt himself.
That wasn't normal instinct.
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Sure as shit never thought I'd be in a place where I was entertainin' the idea that anyone was a goddamned Dinosaur. Or that I'd be huntin' 'em. How're you finding Jurassic Park?
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[There's something small, something young to his voice. A quiet wonder that is almost as much for the trees as for the dinosaurs. Aside from the Enclosure, he's never been outside on a planet before.]
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Well, a little more innocent than he'd expected.]
There's been plenty of life, no matter where we've gone. All sorts, fantastical and otherwise. This your first port off ship?
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And there's more here than there was at Elsewhere, even though that wasn't a port.
[And at Elsewhere he also didn't appreciate it properly, thought it was normal.]
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Elsewhere was.. Somethin' else,[That's easily agreed with a heavy sigh.]
Fantastical and still somehow half of the regular collage experiance.
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So - you and James?
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Yeah. Yeah, me and James..
I hope that's not gonna be a problem. [He fully expected it to be, but he did hope that wasn't going to be the case.]
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Are you defensive because you're treating him in a way I should be concerned about, or are you just from Earth too?
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Earth. Specifically the South. [It was one of those 'if you know, you know' situations.]
But you're welcome to ask James if he feels mistreated in any way. [In his experience, people who shouted from the rooftops that they didn't do one thing or another usually had, or had something worse to hide.]
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Oh, are there parts of the planet that aren't completely insane about sex?
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California too, I suppose. West Coast. Places where the bible and religious values aren't beaten over and shoved down everyone's throat.
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[Threesomes, yes. Bible, no.]
Can I ask when you got together?
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I suppose. If I get to ask things back.
[Tit for tat and all.]
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He's been staying with me since before the .. weird change of visitors. A handful of days before. We've only just recently made it.. official. [Stringing it all together, outloud, was new and hard. It shouldn't be a big deal. It still was.]
I take it you're not from Earth. Where are you from?
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You said you understood some of my words. Which ones didn't you get?
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[Unlike Jedao One, Jedao Two is conscientious enough not to call people barbarians to their faces.]
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