"So you're not from here?" Cam asked, their interest piqued. Then they shrugged, chuckling a little. "Eh, reading minds is overrated. I'd rather not know all the stuff random strangers think about me -- I can guess, you know?"
That ... had come out maybe a bit more self-deprecating than Cam had intended. They hurried on: "Nothing wrong with complaining. It helps to vent, I think. Like, just because it could be worse doesn't mean it couldn't be better, too. Did that make sense?"
They weren't sure they could untangle that sequence of negatives and conditionals themself. Oops. Well, no harm done, except maybe to the English language.
"It definitely is. Are you, uh, from Earth too? I know there are other places, but yeah -- back home we didn't even have any concept of other worlds existing, so suddenly showing up here was a bit of a shock. Sometimes I still don't think it's real, but I might as well go along with it, you know?"
That ... had come out maybe a bit more self-deprecating than Cam had intended. They hurried on: "Nothing wrong with complaining. It helps to vent, I think. Like, just because it could be worse doesn't mean it couldn't be better, too. Did that make sense?"
They weren't sure they could untangle that sequence of negatives and conditionals themself. Oops. Well, no harm done, except maybe to the English language.
"It definitely is. Are you, uh, from Earth too? I know there are other places, but yeah -- back home we didn't even have any concept of other worlds existing, so suddenly showing up here was a bit of a shock. Sometimes I still don't think it's real, but I might as well go along with it, you know?"
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