That stung a little. He realized he should be treating this more delicately. It was just easier to retreat into silliness than to deal with real problems.
"The Malnosso." He said it in a hurry before she started leaving. "The Malnosso are why you're here. Why I'm here. They're powerful. Even more than the spirits back home. When they bring people here, time doesn't matter. I've been here since I was fifteen. You... you just got here. That's why I look so much older."
He realized it wasn't exactly that. It was a simplification to the extreme. Not even touching the fact of what the Malnosso were responsible for, he wasn't going to diminish her life by saying that she was just an experiment that was here only temporarily.
"They brand us when we show up. All of us." He turned his head to the side and lifted up some of the scruffy hair on his neck to show his own barcode. "We all get one. You have one too."
no subject
"The Malnosso." He said it in a hurry before she started leaving. "The Malnosso are why you're here. Why I'm here. They're powerful. Even more than the spirits back home. When they bring people here, time doesn't matter. I've been here since I was fifteen. You... you just got here. That's why I look so much older."
He realized it wasn't exactly that. It was a simplification to the extreme. Not even touching the fact of what the Malnosso were responsible for, he wasn't going to diminish her life by saying that she was just an experiment that was here only temporarily.
"They brand us when we show up. All of us." He turned his head to the side and lifted up some of the scruffy hair on his neck to show his own barcode. "We all get one. You have one too."