Everywhere I live is surrounded by the sea, anything big lives in the water or in other countries, it's too expensive to try to keep them. I only saw pictures of horses until a rift spat me out here.
[There is some land and some larger animals but they're generally pigs or goats, the few hardy things that can eat anything and don't tend to take up all that much space on islands where it's sand and rocky shores where they haven't built upon, and where any soil is heavily laden with salt. Castileos is the place that farms salt, not animals or crops.
Even war was only a memory there. One war terrible enough to never be repeated. It makes her feel like a naive girl when she tells people that though.]
How does being numb do that? [Giving Lux a nudge out of the way, she crouches before him so he can see just how confused she is because really, Bruce, any mask she might have worn is gone because that made absolutely no sense to her.] I have been shot. It was so painful. But it's a little ball and sometimes it goes through and out the other side, or sometimes it doesn't and you have to get it out, and you can't always see a doctor. When I had to fish it out with my fingers… [A shudder passes through her, Lux puts his paw on her leg in apparent sympathy.] I downed a whole bottle of rum between readying myself, getting it out, cleaning it and stitching it shut.
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[There is some land and some larger animals but they're generally pigs or goats, the few hardy things that can eat anything and don't tend to take up all that much space on islands where it's sand and rocky shores where they haven't built upon, and where any soil is heavily laden with salt. Castileos is the place that farms salt, not animals or crops.
Even war was only a memory there. One war terrible enough to never be repeated. It makes her feel like a naive girl when she tells people that though.]
How does being numb do that? [Giving Lux a nudge out of the way, she crouches before him so he can see just how confused she is because really, Bruce, any mask she might have worn is gone because that made absolutely no sense to her.] I have been shot. It was so painful. But it's a little ball and sometimes it goes through and out the other side, or sometimes it doesn't and you have to get it out, and you can't always see a doctor. When I had to fish it out with my fingers… [A shudder passes through her, Lux puts his paw on her leg in apparent sympathy.] I downed a whole bottle of rum between readying myself, getting it out, cleaning it and stitching it shut.