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"It's been all right so far! Sorta just got here, but it looks very, uh, interesting."

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"I like to think we can beat the tenth century. ....eleventh century? I forget how you count centuries...anyway, you shouldn't hesitate to say if you need anything."

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"All right! I'll keep it in mind." 

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"Yep, found you someone! Her name is Aurelius and she's interested in early Earth history, doesn't want longer than six hours, is that long enough for you?"

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"Sounds great."

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"Awesome. You gotta push a button - don't do this at home -"

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"I will definitely not push any buttons at home," she says, solemnly, before pushing the button.

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A person appears!

She has very light skin and black curly hair and odd foreign features and insect wings, and she's hovering. "- huh," she says. "What language is this? Nice to meet you!"

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"That's English. I'd give you Norwegian if I knew how to do that."

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"No, no, I've got everything you've got, that's how it works! First time, huh?"

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"Yeah! Neat. So you understand this too?" she says, switching back.

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"Ah huh! Ancient Norwegian! I don't think I know anyone with ancient Norwegian."

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"Ooh, I feel all special."

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"Yeah, my friends will be so jealous. We collect them, you know. I hang out with someone who has six hundred twenty but I don't think any of them are ancient Norwegian because he only got summoned six times before Revelation - I forgot it's your first time, how much should I be providing exposition -"

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"Oh, you know, I have no idea what's going on, so if you did too much we could be here all day. And I came here to see, like, pyramids or whatever. Maybe see what your Norway looks like. But I can ask about stuff if I decide I'm really confused."

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"Did you slip your minder? They're supposed to make you sit through the introductory videos. But pyramids it is." 

 

There's a whoosh and then they are flying. There's a tiny bit of wind in her hair but not too much, not nearly enough for how fast they're going.

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Flying is pretty awesome.

"I feel like I learn better by doing, you know?"

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"Knock yourself out, I guess." Oh look they're at the pyramids.

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"Wow. They're really big. Any idea how old these guys are?"

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"You bet, I'm a tour guide!" She points them out and names them - "....all built between 2589 and 2504 BC. ...that's BC the dating system, Christ was actually born in year 3, I don't know if you knew that or care or anything but they didn't want to change all the dates around once they could check."

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"I did not know that, but that's cool." She dutifully looks at the pyramids for a bit. "Well, that was cool, can I see what your Norway looks like?"

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"Yep!" And they're off again. "It's cool you're getting out. One thing people complain about a lot is that the people with a lotta culture shock don't have a smooth gradient from their world to ours? So it's dive right in or stay out entirely."

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"That makes sense. I've done the whole culture shock thing before, though, so I bet I have an easier time of it than most people."

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"Sorta got kidnapped by a power-hungry dictator with delusions of godhood and got taken back to his palace to have his babies. Still working on getting the babies back. Learned Norwegian along the way, though."

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