[ Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, et cetera, something something. He looks at her oddly, for a moment, but doesn't question it. ]
[ There are masked children, doing the things that children do; playing and shouting and talking together. Instead of dwellings crammed with shadows and yellow eyes, there are people; the houses in the trees and on the ground bright with lights and life. ]
It is. It's been -- a lifetime, since it looked this way.
Well, several. I suppose it must be several, by this point.
[ He sounds a little distracted; a small group of three children has caught his eye. A girl with long, blonde hair and a horned mask; a brown-haired boy dressed in purple, with a mask shaped like a moon turned on its side; a boy with white hair and a mask that mimics a fox's face.
They're talking about something or other, excitedly. ]
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[ There are masked children, doing the things that children do; playing and shouting and talking together. Instead of dwellings crammed with shadows and yellow eyes, there are people; the houses in the trees and on the ground bright with lights and life. ]
It is. It's been -- a lifetime, since it looked this way.
Well, several. I suppose it must be several, by this point.
[ He sounds a little distracted; a small group of three children has caught his eye. A girl with long, blonde hair and a horned mask; a brown-haired boy dressed in purple, with a mask shaped like a moon turned on its side; a boy with white hair and a mask that mimics a fox's face.
They're talking about something or other, excitedly. ]