Someone had a realization [Late in the first day of the Jaunt]

[mytearsaremine]

So um. Just how much are worlds we go to like the ones we came from?

Like, you know, this is California. I just figured that out. But there aren't any cities in California called Santa Carlita, that I remember. But it's still California, so some things are the same.

Right?

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[mytearsaremine]

[It's okay, Jolie is taking it as unbearably cute rather than silly. Also, explaining things is a nice distraction.]

That's because they aren't beasts. They're machines. Um. Do you have carriages where you come from? Or wagons? They're like those, only instead of being pulled by horses, they're powered by fire inside them. That's why they smoke or steam sometimes.

The music part, though... that's-- hmm. Do you have magic where you come from? Illusions? It's like that. They aren't really playing inside the tape or record or whatever they're using in the 80s, pretty sure they don't have CDs. Anyway, it's a recording, something that happened a long time ago but they made a copy of, so that people who weren't there can listen to it, too. It's not really magic, but it's kind of like it.

[unconventionalelf]

Why don't they just use horses? Seems like these machines are stuck to those trails... It seems like it causes more damage to the world around them than they would be good.

We have magic. I know some spells. Not many and they're hard to learn. [ She thinks it over.] Then the wizards of this place are greater than ones back home. Illusions like that take a lot of power. Not many can pull it off.

[mytearsaremine]

Because the machines go a lot faster than horses, and don't get tired, or stubborn. I mean, I won't argue that it does damage to the environment, but we didn't know that for a long time, and some people still don't care.

And, like I said, it's not really magic. It's technology. It's just way more advanced than what you're used to, so it looks like magic.

[unconventionalelf]

Do people not care about the journey anymore? Because that is the best part of going between places.

I see. Thank you, hopefully now I won't seem as simple as I probably have lately.

[mytearsaremine]

Sometimes people care. But sometimes you just need to get to work or school or wherever. I mean, people drive the same way twice every day, sometimes people work like twenty miles from where they live. Or more.

I mean, not my family, we live across the highway from where we work, but we're not really usual, and most of us don't have cars, anyway.

[unconventionalelf]

I see. I think.