"So ... you're not from here either?" Cameron rubbed the back of their neck. "Are there a lot of -- I mean, does this happen often here? People appearing from, uh, other worlds?"
Maybe they wouldn't be as out of place here as they thought, if the residents of Caido were used to people just showing up out of thin air. Or was it usually more intentional? Oh, that led Cam to a rather important question, one they couldn't believe hadn't been at the forefront of their mind: "Is there a way home?"
They didn't know if they wanted to go home immediately -- it seemed untenable to just head back to their shitty job and boring life after learning that whole other realities existed. But eventually they'd probably want to see their parents again, wouldn't they? Ride in a car. Eat pizza. God, use the Internet.
Listening to Neos' explanation of Caido's technological development and time period, Cam nodded. OK, swords and sorcery it was. That was the setting they generally preferred for their fantasy adventures, though they'd been getting more into urban stuff too, and of course sci fi was great ... Though Cam had never really wanted to live in a medieval world. They liked technology. If they had to pick a universe to move to, they would have preferred a sci fi one -- something idealized, like Star Trek, not a post-apocalyptic hellscape. And, honestly, the area they'd come out in kind of looked like a post-apocalyptic hellscape ... They hoped Caido got better at some point.
"A goddess of technology? Interesting." This being a whole new world, Cam had no problem believing in magic and gods -- though back home they were an atheist. But if they accepted that they'd been teleported into a new universe or whatever, magic didn't seem that far-fetched; actually, it made more sense than not having magic. "So, um, where are we going?"
Maybe they wouldn't be as out of place here as they thought, if the residents of Caido were used to people just showing up out of thin air. Or was it usually more intentional? Oh, that led Cam to a rather important question, one they couldn't believe hadn't been at the forefront of their mind: "Is there a way home?"
They didn't know if they wanted to go home immediately -- it seemed untenable to just head back to their shitty job and boring life after learning that whole other realities existed. But eventually they'd probably want to see their parents again, wouldn't they? Ride in a car. Eat pizza. God, use the Internet.
Listening to Neos' explanation of Caido's technological development and time period, Cam nodded. OK, swords and sorcery it was. That was the setting they generally preferred for their fantasy adventures, though they'd been getting more into urban stuff too, and of course sci fi was great ... Though Cam had never really wanted to live in a medieval world. They liked technology. If they had to pick a universe to move to, they would have preferred a sci fi one -- something idealized, like Star Trek, not a post-apocalyptic hellscape. And, honestly, the area they'd come out in kind of looked like a post-apocalyptic hellscape ... They hoped Caido got better at some point.
"A goddess of technology? Interesting." This being a whole new world, Cam had no problem believing in magic and gods -- though back home they were an atheist. But if they accepted that they'd been teleported into a new universe or whatever, magic didn't seem that far-fetched; actually, it made more sense than not having magic. "So, um, where are we going?"
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