[ Reynir gives a little shrug of his shoulders and smile, when Kieran mentions America. ]
I've never heard of it, sorry. Is it anything like this place?
[ He doesn't specify in what ways - really he is just curious about other worlds, the same way he's been curious about other countries all his life. One of the reasons he had wanted to leave his village so badly was to find out about other places and other ways to live and people who had had lives very different to his own. And now he has more of a chance to do that than ever before.
At the mention of the date Kieran is from, Reynir's mouth drops open in surprise. ]
Eighteen ninety-nine?!
[ His voice squeaks on it, amused and shocked: ]
But that's so many years! That's, like, thousands!
[ The fact that the date hadn't reset in all that time implies a continuity in culture and history that is completely unthinkable to Reynir, honestly. Almost two thousand years of continuous keeping track... ]
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I've never heard of it, sorry. Is it anything like this place?
[ He doesn't specify in what ways - really he is just curious about other worlds, the same way he's been curious about other countries all his life. One of the reasons he had wanted to leave his village so badly was to find out about other places and other ways to live and people who had had lives very different to his own. And now he has more of a chance to do that than ever before.
At the mention of the date Kieran is from, Reynir's mouth drops open in surprise. ]
Eighteen ninety-nine?!
[ His voice squeaks on it, amused and shocked: ]
But that's so many years! That's, like, thousands!
[ The fact that the date hadn't reset in all that time implies a continuity in culture and history that is completely unthinkable to Reynir, honestly. Almost two thousand years of continuous keeping track... ]
What's AD mean?