[ A huge city... the cities here are so overwhelming. Annie lives in the middle of one and she still has trouble parsing it some days. ]
... That's still difficult to imagine. Even in the innermost Wall, people had a sense of the countryside. Wildlife might have been another matter...
[ She looks skyward, watching two smaller birds, finches perhaps, dart from their perch in the foliage across the river to alight in a tree. Her eyes linger on them for a beat or two. ]
It's different for everyone. [ She makes to dip her paddle back into the water, enjoying the repetitive, soothing nature of it all. ] What made the rivers unsafe?
[ There are enough different causes (even on her world) that she's really asking which ones in specific applied to his circumstances. ]
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... That's still difficult to imagine. Even in the innermost Wall, people had a sense of the countryside. Wildlife might have been another matter...
[ She looks skyward, watching two smaller birds, finches perhaps, dart from their perch in the foliage across the river to alight in a tree. Her eyes linger on them for a beat or two. ]
It's different for everyone. [ She makes to dip her paddle back into the water, enjoying the repetitive, soothing nature of it all. ] What made the rivers unsafe?
[ There are enough different causes (even on her world) that she's really asking which ones in specific applied to his circumstances. ]