(SE) will we burn, or will we repent?

KAIMaNA

"What's another way to put it?" Genuinely, you want to learn about expressions and idioms and the way people would say things. More and more you've begun to feel that maybe you don't do as good a job as you thought at blending in with other people, something that you know shouldn't bother you but still itches somewhere in the back of your brain. "I know humans engage in sexual activities recreationally, not just 'cusa reproductive needs. Is that what y'meant? Didja feel the desire to do that with Frey?" You fidget a little with the broom, shifting your weight from foot to foot, your brain racing a little bit. Is that what you wanted to do with Frey? Is that a thing you want to do with anyone?

At least talking about your knowledge of the barrier is an easy piece of conversation, more in your wheelhouse than recreational sexual activity and whether or not it's something you're interested in. "Well, 'course, it's hard to say without havin' seen it 'afore the barrier. But the barrier created a closed ecosystem- there wasn' any genetic drift, an' the populations of the local flora and fauna was constrained by a small gene pool an' limited geographic space." You've stopped sweeping now, and are using your arms to gesticulate as you speak, making a circle out of them to indicate the small space in the barrier, waiting for Sunjata to express a level of understanding of further curiosity before going on.

so peel away the bark

cus nothing grows when it's dark

and keep your eyes fixed on the sun