It's just hard to summarize, and I dunno... how much history to add?
[She supposes that he can ask questions if anything stands out.
Astrid hops up to sit on the counter.]
So, it was me and a bunch of other people on this big colony ship, going to a new planet. We were only kind of good at traveling that distance - I think our ship was the first one with people on it? Well, human people.
[It's easy to forget, until someone like Hunhow speaks; most of her interactions with Sentients have been in silent battle, and their forms are so inhuman... well. Usually.]
The only way to get that far was through the Void, a weird space-between-space where physics doesn't really work. It also might be a person? [A shrug. The Man in the Wall is a whole 'nother thing.]
Something went wrong, though, and the ship got stuck there. By the time we were rescued, all the adults were dead and the rest of us had... abilities. Strange ones. One of them let us project ourselves outwards, into anything with a Transference anchor.
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[She supposes that he can ask questions if anything stands out.
Astrid hops up to sit on the counter.]
So, it was me and a bunch of other people on this big colony ship, going to a new planet. We were only kind of good at traveling that distance - I think our ship was the first one with people on it? Well, human people.
[It's easy to forget, until someone like Hunhow speaks; most of her interactions with Sentients have been in silent battle, and their forms are so inhuman... well. Usually.]
The only way to get that far was through the Void, a weird space-between-space where physics doesn't really work. It also might be a person? [A shrug. The Man in the Wall is a whole 'nother thing.]
Something went wrong, though, and the ship got stuck there. By the time we were rescued, all the adults were dead and the rest of us had... abilities. Strange ones. One of them let us project ourselves outwards, into anything with a Transference anchor.