Sawbones hasn't gotten a proposal like that since... The last time she'd been propositioned by another Duster, actually. That relaxes her enough that the soft noise she makes is almost a laugh, "Salroka, are you asking if I wanna have sex?"
that was supposed to be LIE not LIKE im going 2 bed now jeez.
"No, you were. I'm just surprised." She hops off her chair, "And since you were clear, I'll tell you. I took a vow of chastity when I joined my order, but even if I hadn't." She stands next to him and gestures at the general height difference, "I haven't done it near enough that I'd be up for taking whatever you got, Burton."
Amos thinks about that. He could say he knows how to compensate for differing body types, or that he isn't into pain, or that he's surprised to realize anybody actually keeps vows of chastity. But he said he wouldn't mention it again, and that's more important than anything else, just then.
He keeps wrapping the sheet until it's just a spool of fabric around one arm. "Okay," he says. "Change your mind, lemme know."
He starts moving the chairs back into the place, and thinking ruefully about how you prove the curvature of the Earth without getting into Astronomy. Even if they had a telescope good enough for it, Amos finds that shit too boring to account for.
"Sure." That too reminds her a little of the handful of Dusters she's known in the past. Makes it easy to stay relaxed around him, it means she can lose herself a little in thinking about gravity and force and a round Thedas. She helps him move the chairs back, more than strong enough to compensate for the awkward height difference.
Finally she looks back up at him, "I don't think I'll like this answer, but I've been thinking. If gravity attracts smaller things to bigger things and Thedas is round, how does it circle the sun? Isn't the sun smaller?"
This question, he can answer. He holds up the marble again. "If the Earth's round, and you can't see the curve of it, how small are you? Space is big. The sun only looks smaller because it's that fucking far away. You could fit something like a million Earths in the sun."
He considers this, and wonders if more explanation is necessary. Eh, well. He'll see.
Yup, she was right, that is indeed a terrifying answer. But she manages to suppress the shiver this time.
"That explains why it doesn't fall on us," she says, with a grim kind of satisfaction. It was a more comforting answer than the ones she'd received before. "Are the moons the same?"
"Because the sun moves," she says, watching the motion, "Or... Because we're moving. But then how-" She cuts herself off, frowning intently at the marble, thinks about it spinning on the sheet. "We're... Spinning?"
Another impossibility in a conversation full of impossibilities.
There's a wonder and a terror to learning things like this, but at least she's already done this once before.
Sawbones still stares at him wide eyed for a moment before she shakes her head a little and gives him a small smile. "I've hundreds of questions I'd like to ask, but I'm not gonna remember anymore if you keep telling me things like this. Thank you for teaching me."
"Yeah. I'm a fuckin' terrible teacher, so we're square." The chairs are back where they were. Lesson's over, until he can find a big enough lake, maybe? Would that work? Fuck.
To be polite, you're supposed to say something before you go. Amos waves, an almost childlike motion, before wandering off.
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that was supposed to be LIE not LIKE im going 2 bed now jeez.
tucks u in
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He keeps wrapping the sheet until it's just a spool of fabric around one arm. "Okay," he says. "Change your mind, lemme know."
He starts moving the chairs back into the place, and thinking ruefully about how you prove the curvature of the Earth without getting into Astronomy. Even if they had a telescope good enough for it, Amos finds that shit too boring to account for.
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Finally she looks back up at him, "I don't think I'll like this answer, but I've been thinking. If gravity attracts smaller things to bigger things and Thedas is round, how does it circle the sun? Isn't the sun smaller?"
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He considers this, and wonders if more explanation is necessary. Eh, well. He'll see.
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"That explains why it doesn't fall on us," she says, with a grim kind of satisfaction. It was a more comforting answer than the ones she'd received before. "Are the moons the same?"
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He holds one hand out, a fist, and moves the marble in an elliptical orbit around his fist.
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Another impossibility in a conversation full of impossibilities.
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Also there's, like, atmosphere and shit, but he's already overloaded her for the night.
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Sawbones still stares at him wide eyed for a moment before she shakes her head a little and gives him a small smile. "I've hundreds of questions I'd like to ask, but I'm not gonna remember anymore if you keep telling me things like this. Thank you for teaching me."
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To be polite, you're supposed to say something before you go. Amos waves, an almost childlike motion, before wandering off.