[ That's kind of a bummer. He was hoping Nimona was +1950 years into his future instead of in the past, but if she has kingdoms all over again... ]
Around the time when I died, mankind had just set foot on the moon. Space travel became reality for the first time ever... [ He looks up at the sky, at the half-hidden moon, all these unfamiliar stars, and then closes his eyes so he doesn't have to see them. ]
Did you know? There are over two hundred billion trillion stars in the universe! Trillions of planets just like ours, with people just like us, living, just like this...
I wanted to! I wanted nothing more than to visit all the stars in the galaxy.
[ He wanted to become an astronaut. He wanted to learn all about space. He wanted to grow up and touch the "infinite possibilities" that the stars represented for him.
But he didn't.
He couldn't. ]
Anyways, I was thinking that if you had space travel, you could visit all the stars for me! You wouldn't be able to see them all even if you had thousands and thousands of ears, and you'll never be tired of them because there's always something new to see!
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[casually is a brat]
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[ shakes her shoulders, listen to meeeeeee ]
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[she's laughing when he shakes her]
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What did you mean by echo? Answer that one.
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[ help, don't expect him to remember anything I have to parent up half a dozen times for ]
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You said you're dead. So like a ghost? Have you been a ghost for a long time?
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... ]
That's right! I died... fifty-some years ago?
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Huh. So you're old. [teehee]
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Uh, wow? I'm older than you! Listen to your elders.
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[ "how long have YOU been dead, then?" he wants to ask but no, Nimona isn't allowed to be dead ]
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[well, she's not dead! technically. theoretically.]
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...No way.
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Yeah way. [taps his hat.] Might be a bit less. I stopped keeping track because it didn't matter.
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...I guess I just can't imagine existing for that long. How do you do it...?
[ When he couldn't even make it past 13 before he gave up ]
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she glances back out over the playground.]
I don't know. Spite, I guess. [...] I told you I was tired before I got here.
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Nimona, is space travel a thing where you're from?
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Why?
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[ That's kind of a bummer. He was hoping Nimona was +1950 years into his future instead of in the past, but if she has kingdoms all over again... ]
Around the time when I died, mankind had just set foot on the moon. Space travel became reality for the first time ever... [ He looks up at the sky, at the half-hidden moon, all these unfamiliar stars, and then closes his eyes so he doesn't have to see them. ]
Did you know? There are over two hundred billion trillion stars in the universe! Trillions of planets just like ours, with people just like us, living, just like this...
There's so much out there. I couldn't stand it.
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she glances at him, and then... back at the sky.]
... There's all those places out there and you didn't want to see if you could see them? [she's not judgmental, just curious.]
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[ He wanted to become an astronaut. He wanted to learn all about space. He wanted to grow up and touch the "infinite possibilities" that the stars represented for him.
But he didn't.
He couldn't. ]
Anyways, I was thinking that if you had space travel, you could visit all the stars for me! You wouldn't be able to see them all even if you had thousands and thousands of ears, and you'll never be tired of them because there's always something new to see!
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she's quiet for a second, just watching him, and then:]
But I'd be alone the whole time.
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... I don't know if that's how it'd be for me, but it's cool that you think so.
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