Cam grinned, weirdly amused by imagining Bastien -- or anyone in Caido -- taking selfies. "Who knows? Maybe we'll get to see it invented here."
Especially if Bastien were Ascended, and therefore immortal. That was a cool idea, in Cam's mind -- getting to live through the centuries until Caido invented cameras. Maybe even helping invent them. As long as, they remembered with a sour note, the Ascended didn't all die in the coming conflict.
Nodding, Cam said, "It's ... pretty scary, to be honest. But the alternative is ..." Wait, they didn't really want to go into their mental illness with Bastien; he seemed cool, but they had just met. "Well, I have some health issues that Ascending would help with."
Being handed paints immediately wasn't what Cam had expected, and they tried to cover their surprise. "Oh, uh, OK. I -- yes." They had only the vaguest idea of what to do with these objects, but they picked the paints up anyway. "Yeah, I can experiment." They had some sketches in their backpack that they could probably start with.
"Successful?" Cam thought about the America they knew. "Well, for a certain metric of success, sure. They're considered the most powerful country in the world now. Wow, if that's when you came here ... That's, what, 150 years ago for me?"
Especially if Bastien were Ascended, and therefore immortal. That was a cool idea, in Cam's mind -- getting to live through the centuries until Caido invented cameras. Maybe even helping invent them. As long as, they remembered with a sour note, the Ascended didn't all die in the coming conflict.
Nodding, Cam said, "It's ... pretty scary, to be honest. But the alternative is ..." Wait, they didn't really want to go into their mental illness with Bastien; he seemed cool, but they had just met. "Well, I have some health issues that Ascending would help with."
Being handed paints immediately wasn't what Cam had expected, and they tried to cover their surprise. "Oh, uh, OK. I -- yes." They had only the vaguest idea of what to do with these objects, but they picked the paints up anyway. "Yeah, I can experiment." They had some sketches in their backpack that they could probably start with.
"Successful?" Cam thought about the America they knew. "Well, for a certain metric of success, sure. They're considered the most powerful country in the world now. Wow, if that's when you came here ... That's, what, 150 years ago for me?"
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"Cameras" by Ennev is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
