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 Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:35 pm
She's your sister? Oh boy. Your family gatherings must be a blast.
*Luana picks up her wine again and takes a sip.* Is she always that rude to people? I mean, she just showed up and started ordering me around.
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:43 pm
I won't make any excuses for her, but if it helps clear up why she did that, my sister is a princess. She has servants to do what she wants...and since she's never heard of you, she assumed you were ripe for servitude.
:::Thinking further on how to best explain his sister:::
She's harmless up front, but given the chance, she'll make your life miserable. So, my word of advice to you is to just...not do anything to piss her off.
:::He takes a sip of his wine, and looks at Luana:::
Don't do anything to make her remember your name. That's probly the safest thing to do as far as she's concerned
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:48 pm
I'll try to remember that. *takes another sip*
Wait, if she's a princess, wouldn't that make you... ?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:51 pm
:::He looks back down at his wine:::
If you can't tell, then neither will I.
:::But eventually he can't help but crack a smile:::
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:59 pm
*Luana smiles too.* I never would have thought it by looking at you. Heck, I never would have suspected that you and Kara were related.
*More of the bits of her meeting with Kara come together in Luana's mind, like the pieces of a puzzle that were scattered in her memory.* Now, she said something about a revolution in your time. What's your time like? I imagine a lot has changed.
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:07 pm
:::He took a sip and put down his glass. He looked at Luana for a moment, not saying anything. His lips drew to the far side of his cheek as he considered the next few bits of information:::
This is the hard part to explain...
Yes, a lot has changed. It all started with a woman named Cora. Have you met her yet?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:08 pm
No. I'm guessing she's another Brink person?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:18 pm
:::He nods::: Yes, she is...or...was... I- don't know. :::He appeared very disturbed for a moment, but pulled himself back to what he was saying:::
She is from a time about 20 years before mine. Before her world was revolutionized.
:::He ran his fingers through his hair, and looked back up at Luana:::
You see, Luana. a thousand years into the future, humans will become preoccupied with the advancement of the species. They'll have pretty much destroyed the planet, and only be concerned with keeping the technology of man kind moving forward. But to do that, they sacrifice a lot of things.
No one in the tropolis appreciates life. They don't eat real food, all it is is fuel, and they don't touch one another because that spreads disease. And they don't really feel very much because along with emotion comes anger and lies and hate, and that causes war and greed and pain...
But what they don't realize is that those things are the price we pay for love and joy and happiness... instead of recieving one for the other, they have nothing...and they would kill those who saw it for its worth.
:::He was telling it like a prince, proud of his people, despite himself:::
This was the way of Cora's world. She began appearing here, and that is when she met a powerful goddess named Luca. Luca took pity on Cora, and in her mercy, took it upon herself to revolutionize the world as we know it.
That is why I've known what the brink is, and who everyone else is... but... Something is very wrong. The facts aren't all coming together the way that I've been taught all my life... things aren't right.
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:36 pm
*Luana reaches up to touch the locket hidden under her clothes and for a moment could not speak.*
It sounds almost as if humans stop being human. I'm not even sure if I can believe what you're saying.
*Luana gets off the stool and takes a few steps away from Kal.* People destroy the world and themselves. K, you say they destroy the planet. Does that mean the wilderness that is dwindling in my time is completely gone?
*She thinks of her family's compund, the vast lawn, the trees, the edge of the lake...*
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:47 pm
:::He nods::: It's gone Luana. Hundreds of years from your time, the polar ice caps will melt. Some humans will chose to go to other planets, some form floating encapsulated colonies...eventually the humans will alter the atmosphere to destroy water cycles, and through extreme measures, succede in evaporating all the water...and turning earth into a barron dessert. The process would have taken millions of years to do on its own...but humans wouldn't have it.
Now they live in a giant metal bubble, protected from the environment... my people live hundreds of miles away from it, in the last bit of living earth the people have. Terra.
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:55 pm
*Luana pulls a chair away from the neares table and sinks into it. The image in her mind changed. The trees were gone. The lake was empty. Everything was dust. At least I won't live to see it.*
What's Terra like? Do you have a lot of trees there?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:02 pm
:::He nods::: Some, yes... a few palms. We're working on propogating more...it takes time. There are a few desert plants that bare fruit, and with some of the technology we have, we're able to synthesize fertile conditions. So instead of using chemicals to make food, we're using chemicals to grow food...it might not seem so different in theory, but no one can tell me that biting into a fresh jiki is like eating a sustanance block...
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:07 pm
*Luana is not exactly sure of what a jiki is, but supposes that it must be a fruit.*
My family's property has a grove of Oak trees, and you can see the lake from my window.
*She glances at the keys.* Kal, if someone goes through the door, can someone else go with them?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:10 pm
:::Kal is suddenly stricken with a bit of surprise at her question...he'd known about it, but he'd never quite thought about it:::
Yes...or, at least that's what I've read. Come to think about it, I'm not quite so sure I trust everything I've read anymore...but, I think that they just might.
:::He was weary about the next question, but he had to ask:::
why..?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:17 pm
*Luana drops her gaze to the floor.*
*Almost to herself* I'm the only one at home, so you wouldn't be seen.
It isn't right that the only Earth you know is almost dead. Do you want to see what the world was, er, is like before... well, you know...
*She stands up.* I could show you.
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