[ Erik isn't exactly eager to settle down in a place such as this either, but he can understand why some people would eventually choose to do that. Adapting can often be key to survival, and how long until they all would stop fighting it and accept that this was their new home, whether they liked it or not?
Not something that he needs to concern himself with immediately, at least. So he sets that thought aside. ]
More than one lifetime, it seems.
[ Generations is likely a better descriptor. Given how advanced this place is, even if limited in resources, makes him wonder how much of it was achieved by those who were brought here just like they were, only centuries ago. ]
That's rather an optimist outlook, that we may be the exception to the rule.
[ Not that he can't be right, but Erik's nowhere near that much of an optimist. ]
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Not something that he needs to concern himself with immediately, at least. So he sets that thought aside. ]
More than one lifetime, it seems.
[ Generations is likely a better descriptor. Given how advanced this place is, even if limited in resources, makes him wonder how much of it was achieved by those who were brought here just like they were, only centuries ago. ]
That's rather an optimist outlook, that we may be the exception to the rule.
[ Not that he can't be right, but Erik's nowhere near that much of an optimist. ]