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Mallyn's first concern is whether he and Rithka have been permanently lost. Rithka, on the other hand, knows exactly what's going on - "this just happens sometimes! It's okay, we can go home whenever!" - and eventually has him reassured enough that he sits down at the bar and stutters his way through asking her for potato soup. Rithka gets a walnut to nibble on companionably from her squirrely perch around his neck, but doesn't feel like shifting to eat anything substantial. She was in the snack cabinet earlier spoiling her dinner.
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inhispockets
"Yeah, but you knew it did more things, you might've known what some of them were."
"I'm just pretty sure Uncle Tekaal's not teaching a whole course on how to kill things," says Rithka. "So there must be other stuff."
inhispockets
"Maybe killing things is complicated and it takes a whole course to learn it," says Felicity.
"I guess," says Rithka dubiously.
"Oh, now I remember," she says, snapping her fingers, "if you do death kamai in Barashi you can talk to ghosts, but Elcenia doesn't seem to do ghosts."
"Maybe gods," suggests Mallyn. "Barashi has them. If Elcenia does they're sort of hiding."
"I don't know," says Mallyn. "In Barashi they don't. You can see them and talk to them sometimes. In Elcenia people have all different religions and none of the gods just walk down the street or anything."
"I haven't met one," says Mallyn. "I saw Aiath from a long way off, once? You can really, really tell, even from far away, that they're not regular people. Even though they look like whatever species you are when you look at one."
"Aiath was at some kind of party, when I saw him. He's basically the god of parties. I knew what they all did once but I didn't spend very long in school and it was a few years ago," says Mallyn. "I know the ones with seasons - Kevia for spring and Gorath for summer and Cumeni for autumn and Maeus for winter. Oh, and the pilots of the suns are Agosh and Zaquea and the moon pilot is Keela..." He seems to be dredging up the information from far away.
"Barashi has two suns," confirms Rithka. "It's weird-looking. Elcenia just has one."
Mallyn nods. "I'm not sure how the Elcenian one moves around."
Mallyn nods. "I'm not sure how the Elcenian one moves around."
inhispockets
"Where I'm from we've got one, and the planets move around it. And nobody has to pilot any of it, that I know of."
"You have a bunch of planets?" asks Rithka.
"I don't know if Barashi does. Nobody would've made a point of telling me if it did," Mallyn says.
"Well, Elcenia has the one planet and the one moon and the one sun and I think it's neater that way," says Rithka.
"I don't know if Barashi does. Nobody would've made a point of telling me if it did," Mallyn says.
"Well, Elcenia has the one planet and the one moon and the one sun and I think it's neater that way," says Rithka.
"I'm pretty sure people only live on one planet in Barashi too," says Mallyn. "Unless you count the pilots living on the things they pilot."
"People could live on the moon, or the bottom of the planet, in Elcenia, but they pretty much don't," says Rithka. "There's nothing there."
"People could live on the moon, or the bottom of the planet, in Elcenia, but they pretty much don't," says Rithka. "There's nothing there."
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