panspermia: (We wouldn't have hot dogs)
Greg Universe ([personal profile] panspermia) wrote in [community profile] heyfreemagic 2015-06-22 07:59 am (UTC)

[Usually, this is where he'd put on his grin, shake it off, offer to go get some pizza or something. That worked pretty well on children, and threw off emotionally restrained aliens. This is an adult human, perhaps emotionally restrained but attentive. He can't shrug it off so well here.

Still, Wash is barely more than a stranger, at this point. What was he supposed to tell him, his whole mess of a life with magic aliens? More than that, no human on Earth had ever been able to...

It hit him, properly, at that point. No human could do magic. Not just on Earth, it wasn't physically possible. He wasn't on Earth, not his at least. He couldn't even be in the same sort of reality.
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Oh... oh jeez. I... where can I even start...?

[It's so insane, it's too much to take in. And yet, the realization's familiar, in how entirely alien it is. Greg choked out a laugh. Somehow, someway, he's gone and done it again.]

Hah... this is unbelievable... the culture shock's finally hitting me, man. [He laughs again, and he can't help the tears leaking out.] Oh man, I'm a wreck. I can't tell you anything, I don't know what's what anymore.

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