She nods, turning down a better-lit street. Gastown alleys are lit with lanterns, not electricity. It makes for smoky, heavy air, but there is light enough to see the uneven road by. "You must...have existed before the old world fell."
Because she can't imagine how anyone now would have the equipment, knowledge, or technology to create a being like him. "Do you remember it?"
That's a vague-as-hell question and she knows it, but she wants to see what knowledge he does have. Anything from science to poetry would be valuable. They have old books at the Citadel, but their History Woman is gone. Maybe not all of the old world is worth preserving, but some of it must be.
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Date: 2016-08-04 12:41 am (UTC)Because she can't imagine how anyone now would have the equipment, knowledge, or technology to create a being like him. "Do you remember it?"
That's a vague-as-hell question and she knows it, but she wants to see what knowledge he does have. Anything from science to poetry would be valuable. They have old books at the Citadel, but their History Woman is gone. Maybe not all of the old world is worth preserving, but some of it must be.