the future never waits | Glowfic Constellation

There is a strange woman sitting at one of the tables at the soup kitchen, writing at a desk. Both the non-volunteer adult and the expensive electronic device are very out of place.

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"If there were still any to fight. I mean, if there are I will because that's thaneish too. But it's - I think going to Battle School will make me a better thane, so I am."

refute-entropy

She nods.

first-and-final

Shrug. Nod.

refute-entropy

"Are you gonna miss your parents?" she asks, sounding very much as though this is a perfectly abstract question that it only just occurred to her that a normal person would ask.

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"Yeah."

refute-entropy

"I'm sorry to hear that."

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Shrug. "I bet I'll get used to it."

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Nod.

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"Where'd you learn so much about bogs, anyway?"

refute-entropy

"We went to a national park last summer that had a bunch of them."

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"Neat!"

refute-entropy

"Yeah! There was a lot of other stuff besides bogs, too."

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"Ooh. Teach me your ecological secrets."

refute-entropy

She tells him about lakes and beaver dams and hunting and conservation way back in the early twentieth century.

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He is delighted!!

refute-entropy

Oh good! Does he want the life story of a famous and important conservationist who was also a philandering jerk.

first-and-final

Yes absolutely.

refute-entropy

His name was Grey Owl but his real name was Archie Belaney and he was Scottish but he got adopted by some First Nations group and he went around telling people he was half First Nations and he used to be a trapper but then he figured out that beavers were being hunted too much and he married several different women generally without bothering to divorce the old ones first.

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That sure sounds like a character. Sindri enjoys hearing this story.

refute-entropy

He had one kid, with Wife The Penultimate who helped him with a lot of his conservation stuff. And it's really nice that he's interested in hearing this story because telling stories helps you not forget them and it's not like she can go back to that national park any time soon.

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Yeah they are kind of short on national parks in space.

refute-entropy

"Yeah. There'll probably be zero-g, though, that'll be super fun."

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