[Is this thing floor-length? It looks floor-length. So many ways this could go so terribly wrong. But hey, she can’t deny this action figure looks really good, at least.]
It’s—uh. [How do you tell someone that in one timeline, the world they know is wiped out in a matter of months, and humanity was reborn centuries later and had to struggle back to even a rudimentary understanding of the world around them? She can’t, so instead she’s somewhat vague:] Where I’m from, these [gesturing to the toys on display] would be ancient artifacts, from a world we have barely any readable records of. We call the people who belonged to that world the Old Ones.
truly the start of a beautiful friendship
[Is this thing floor-length? It looks floor-length. So many ways this could go so terribly wrong. But hey, she can’t deny this action figure looks really good, at least.]
It’s—uh. [How do you tell someone that in one timeline, the world they know is wiped out in a matter of months, and humanity was reborn centuries later and had to struggle back to even a rudimentary understanding of the world around them? She can’t, so instead she’s somewhat vague:] Where I’m from, these [gesturing to the toys on display] would be ancient artifacts, from a world we have barely any readable records of. We call the people who belonged to that world the Old Ones.