Oh, Valdis, you don't want to know the first thing about gems and death.
Rutile listens to her exposition with rapt attention, their expression carefully neutral. "I cannot imagine what human views must be," they say when she finishes, "if that is complex. Gems, ah... well. It suffices to say that it simply doesn't make sense to speak of death for us.
"But you didn't speak of this agent of death. Given the similarities between your world and the Dreaming, is it possible some equivalent exists here? Although, it seems to me that as I learn more of the Planes, there are similarities with all human cultures..."
They trail off, tapping their chin with a tiny clink-clink-clink of their fingers that is only more white noise against the pattering of rain. Interesting, that much of the Lustrous's knowledge and literature comes from humans - it was from a human book that Rutile learned so much mineralogy - but that their culture fell through the cracks, so to speak.
"Ah, and we're back where we started," they muse. "So many equivalencies, and so little else, and nothing consistent enough to make conjectures about."
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Rutile listens to her exposition with rapt attention, their expression carefully neutral. "I cannot imagine what human views must be," they say when she finishes, "if that is complex. Gems, ah... well. It suffices to say that it simply doesn't make sense to speak of death for us.
"But you didn't speak of this agent of death. Given the similarities between your world and the Dreaming, is it possible some equivalent exists here? Although, it seems to me that as I learn more of the Planes, there are similarities with all human cultures..."
They trail off, tapping their chin with a tiny clink-clink-clink of their fingers that is only more white noise against the pattering of rain. Interesting, that much of the Lustrous's knowledge and literature comes from humans - it was from a human book that Rutile learned so much mineralogy - but that their culture fell through the cracks, so to speak.
"Ah, and we're back where we started," they muse. "So many equivalencies, and so little else, and nothing consistent enough to make conjectures about."