"Okay, maybe I'll start from the beginning. In my world we don't have 'other realms'- no proof of them, anyway. We all get given one flimsy unoptimized body that we have to make do with, and when we die we die- no ghosts, no... nothing, just dead. We don't have magic, we don't have more than two eyes unless you're a conjoined twin, and I guess all of this the eyes and the nesherele stuff is as obvious to you as chemistry is to me, but it's not... obvious to me. Every conversation I have to check which way up is."
He pinches the bridge of his nose, and smooths that motion into rubbing his forehead.
"So... some of you have extra eyes, and sometimes you look like how you look in the place between here and- heaven? Are you... an angel?"
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"Okay, maybe I'll start from the beginning. In my world we don't have 'other realms'- no proof of them, anyway. We all get given one flimsy unoptimized body that we have to make do with, and when we die we die- no ghosts, no... nothing, just dead. We don't have magic, we don't have more than two eyes unless you're a conjoined twin, and I guess all of this the eyes and the nesherele stuff is as obvious to you as chemistry is to me, but it's not... obvious to me. Every conversation I have to check which way up is."
He pinches the bridge of his nose, and smooths that motion into rubbing his forehead.
"So... some of you have extra eyes, and sometimes you look like how you look in the place between here and- heaven? Are you... an angel?"