Devero looks directly over at him, eyebrows lofted in evident surprise. He'd assumed that everyone in this stupid town lived here, had always lived here, and would always live here. And that's the kind of assumption that makes a Guard underestimate an opponent, he reminds himself, seeing the admonition scroll in his mind's eye like he's receiving the lecture directly.
He's seen ground vehicles on the streets here. Is it so impossible that some of these towns are linked up, that people might shuffle between them?
"The CenAm archipelago," he says. "You go far enough south from here, past the steppes and the grasslands to where the land breaks up into that island chain between this continent and SouAm. All of those islands are tropical rainforest. Hotter than this, and so wet it feels like drinking the air."
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Date: 2025-12-06 03:39 am (UTC)From:He's seen ground vehicles on the streets here. Is it so impossible that some of these towns are linked up, that people might shuffle between them?
"The CenAm archipelago," he says. "You go far enough south from here, past the steppes and the grasslands to where the land breaks up into that island chain between this continent and SouAm. All of those islands are tropical rainforest. Hotter than this, and so wet it feels like drinking the air."