May is rolling her way to the library. It's not icy - in point of fact it's summer - but she's got an unhappy ankle from tripping yesterday and it's an accessible library and it's downhill on the way there and Ren will pick her up after. So, rolling.
"I don't think many places on Earth are this pretty! Is it an established scenic route or just some wilderness?"
"Like - flowers have petals missing and not everything is looking its nicest during the same times of year and there is more dirt on things and the grass doesn't look like it has been to a hairstylist and - it's a little hard to describe really."
"I'm inclined to think it is a thing about here, and not a thing about Earth," says May, "because it seems more likely that Earth is what you get when you have an unattended system. But it's possible that both places just have different underlying rules that get different results. I also feel here almost like I can see better? Everything is - higher contrast without being garish, sharper somehow -"
"Maybe magic! Earth doesn't have it. I don't yet know much about how to expect magic to affect things but it is definitely a good candidate."
"Not people. Only humans are, but we have nonperson owls and foxes and I wouldn't have particularly expected to find a place where those were people any more than I would have expected to find a place where rabbits or moths were."