[It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you. ... Though now that he was on a different world, maybe it really was paranoia.
The explanation he's given doesn't quite.. make sense, beyond 'it's something like magic', which he'd been encountering more often in luceti than any other time in the past century and a half.]
And this somehow influences your temperament? I know little of magic, chi or chakras, such things have little influence where I'm from. But the energy of life..
[Maybe that. Maybe. It's put aside, without the thought being completed. Twenty-five thousand years was a lot longer than humanity's had most any form of technology, as far as he knew. It must have come from some other race, but whether given or taken would be ..long lost to time.]
One would think that would be the sort of thing to keep in the record books. The harnessing of fire. Discovery and utilizing of electricity. When and how spaceflight became so commonplace that cross-galactic journeys aren't the task of lifetimes..
[Action seasoned with too much pepper]
The explanation he's given doesn't quite.. make sense, beyond 'it's something like magic', which he'd been encountering more often in luceti than any other time in the past century and a half.]
And this somehow influences your temperament? I know little of magic, chi or chakras, such things have little influence where I'm from. But the energy of life..
[Maybe that. Maybe. It's put aside, without the thought being completed. Twenty-five thousand years was a lot longer than humanity's had most any form of technology, as far as he knew. It must have come from some other race, but whether given or taken would be ..long lost to time.]
One would think that would be the sort of thing to keep in the record books. The harnessing of fire. Discovery and utilizing of electricity. When and how spaceflight became so commonplace that cross-galactic journeys aren't the task of lifetimes..