[Oh no that's the worst! My partner swears by eating marshmallows for sore throats/coughs. I was always partial to Throat Coat tea by Traditional Medicinals (in the organic foods section of the grocery store). I still lament that I can't get it in the UK. Regardless, being kept up by a cough is just rotten. I hope you shake it soon. And re: castles--I work in one actually. It's kind of crazy to say, but it's a castle that just happens to have a branch of a university in it? It's pretty fab (and also very easy to get lost in until you learn your way around).]
"Asura," Aurus answered Charles' inquiry about science. But of course then he had to explain what asura were. "They're small," he held a hand out to about hip height which was roughly as big as they ever got, though some were much smaller, "and sort of imp-like, with long ears and skin in hues of grey and green. They were a subterranean race for many years, but the elder dragon Primordus drove them to the surface. They're the preeminent scientific minds of our world--their whole culture is based on scientific inquiry."
This whole train of thought was curtailed by the question of the 'satellite dish,' however. Admittedly, Aurus found it far more interesting than asura, which to him were a) mundane and b) always slightly suspect given their common tendencies towards amorality.
The idea of some sort of machine above the earth out in space, by contrast, was beyond believable. For a moment he stared at Charles, blinking.
"You're having me on," he finally said in disbelief, and yes it was certainly a different reaction than he'd had to anything else thus far. Aurus could take quite a lot in stride, but a machine in space? Without magic? That threw him.
"You're trying to tell me that your world has humans living in the sky building machines above the earth and that there's no magic to it? No," he shook his head, ready to laugh at the joke Charles was clearly playing on him, "not possible. I'm calling your bluff."
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"Asura," Aurus answered Charles' inquiry about science. But of course then he had to explain what asura were. "They're small," he held a hand out to about hip height which was roughly as big as they ever got, though some were much smaller, "and sort of imp-like, with long ears and skin in hues of grey and green. They were a subterranean race for many years, but the elder dragon Primordus drove them to the surface. They're the preeminent scientific minds of our world--their whole culture is based on scientific inquiry."
This whole train of thought was curtailed by the question of the 'satellite dish,' however. Admittedly, Aurus found it far more interesting than asura, which to him were a) mundane and b) always slightly suspect given their common tendencies towards amorality.
The idea of some sort of machine above the earth out in space, by contrast, was beyond believable. For a moment he stared at Charles, blinking.
"You're having me on," he finally said in disbelief, and yes it was certainly a different reaction than he'd had to anything else thus far. Aurus could take quite a lot in stride, but a machine in space? Without magic? That threw him.
"You're trying to tell me that your world has humans living in the sky building machines above the earth and that there's no magic to it? No," he shook his head, ready to laugh at the joke Charles was clearly playing on him, "not possible. I'm calling your bluff."