we know we once were gods | Glowfic Constellation

Mostly he sees destroyed city. But from an elevated perspective, at ten miles an hour, with comfy seats and A/C and not having to walk it yourself, is a very different experience!

L1N navigates a little tentatively to the things. There's some concrete rubble still, it slows them and makes it kinda bumpy.

He can just keep it with him up front, right, it's not like there's all that much of it.

"Getting driven places is a lot easier than walking! Thank you, this was going to be such an annoying walk if not for you."

"Cars are great! Almost everyone had one back then."

"I can see why. How do you like the future so far? I promise it's not all this ruined."

"Could be a lot better. I was supposed to fly. I'm looking for nuclear material I could salvage... Or a way to start the reactor without it, maybe."

"Would we know if we'd found some?"

"You as in the people of Iron Heart? No. But you probably didn't, and if something might be I can check."

"Are you still planning to fly?"

"When I can. It's what I was meant to do. And it'll be a lot easier to help people far away."

"Will you take me to the sky with you when you can? And maybe some of the kids, if they want that?"

"Sure! On the second trip, not the first. First is a test flight."

"You mean you're not going to just throw me up in the air and laugh if I fall and die?" Vaayo sighs dramatically. "I guess I can live with that. Somehow. ...You'll like the kids, I bet. And you have so much to teach. It'd make a lot of sense for you to have one of your bodies spend some time as a teacher."

"...I don't know anything about kids though???"

"I thought your books would have something. Okay, so, when a woman marries a man, then a tiny person starts growing inside her, and after a few months the tiny person comes out and doesn't know anything yet. So you have to explain lots of things. You can usually tell how many things a kid has had time to learn already by how big they are, the ones you can hold in one arm don't know how to walk and talk, the ones who are about chest height can read but they're still learning our history and how to do most chores. The ones I think you should be teaching are mostly that second kind."

"I know where kids come from. And I have books. I just... Don't want to mess up a tiny impressionable person? I've barely gotten to know you much yet."

"We can have some other people nearby to stop you if you do anything terrible, but I'm sure you'd do fine. But maybe if you have more time to see what people are like... you know, speaking of you needing more time, I can't tell if I should be thinking of you as a kid, you know things I don't but you're only a few days old. What do you think?"

"I'm not the same kind of thing as you. I don't think I'm... Immature? In need of careful handling? But I could probably use some teaching..."

"...I know some songs that are for teaching people, I could try singing them for you if you want. Not the ones about adding and subtracting, you understand that already, but about history and the world."

"I'd like to hear them!"

He sings! If she doesn't interrupt him he'll sing several of them.

One is about plants that are good to eat and plants that are not. The next is about what chickens need to be healthy and safe. The one after that is about some people in Vaayo's great-grandparents' generation who deescalated what almost turned into a war with the northerners over what might have been theft or might have been a failure to keep some livestock from wandering off on its own.

This is a useful perspective on what things they think are important and what their music is like.

She tries composing one about various math concepts and what they might be useful for. It mimics the style pretty well but the explanations are a bit confusing and get cut off between lines weirdly.