Ah, so her hunch had been right: they weren’t from the same place. (Let alone a recognizable version of Earth.) But despite how mind-boggling the thought could still be, Tsubaki didn’t find it terribly distressing. Maybe someone Ranulf knew was already here? Having familiar faces was comforting if not fortunate, and it was easier to get by if there was someone from the same world around.
It seemed like he found her own disposition a good-curious rather than a bad-curious. Was transformation not a common thing where he was from? If so, that would probably have made his body alteration that much more disturbing. “Actually, I know of people who can change into animal shapes of their own. They just don‘t call themselves laguz,” supplied Tsubaki with a touch of thoughtfulness. It was Blair who came to the forefront of her mind, but there were also the witches, and Free. So many people and clans…
Ranulf’s next question turned her train of thought in a different direction. By polite terms, then, he’d meant that ‘human’ was less appropriate by his standards. That was a different tradition than what she was used to.
“It is for the most part; I don’t really know of any other replacements that people here use. It’s quite normal in the place I come from,” she replied at length. “It can still be rude depending on how you mean it. Then there are human beings who aren’t used to other species besides their own at all…” It was complicated business, language! Complicated enough without contending worldviews, at that. It made her wonder if Ranulf noticed she was somehow speaking his language, if they even used different languages.
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It seemed like he found her own disposition a good-curious rather than a bad-curious. Was transformation not a common thing where he was from? If so, that would probably have made his body alteration that much more disturbing. “Actually, I know of people who can change into animal shapes of their own. They just don‘t call themselves laguz,” supplied Tsubaki with a touch of thoughtfulness. It was Blair who came to the forefront of her mind, but there were also the witches, and Free. So many people and clans…
Ranulf’s next question turned her train of thought in a different direction. By polite terms, then, he’d meant that ‘human’ was less appropriate by his standards. That was a different tradition than what she was used to.
“It is for the most part; I don’t really know of any other replacements that people here use. It’s quite normal in the place I come from,” she replied at length. “It can still be rude depending on how you mean it. Then there are human beings who aren’t used to other species besides their own at all…” It was complicated business, language! Complicated enough without contending worldviews, at that. It made her wonder if Ranulf noticed she was somehow speaking his language, if they even used different languages.