[As well as he took the flight, it is a relief to be on solid ground again. What they’ve just done was faster and easier than climbing the Wall, but there was still danger in it, and near on the same kind of trust.
He responds to Sam with a firm nod, then looks around the cliff top.]
I wonder how many they lost before they found this plant, and how many they’ve lost getting it.
[But Sam has asked him something, so he adds,]
But aye, it was a god’s strength, a piece of it. That place wasn’t my home. Wasn’t anything like it. It had great walled cities. Everyone had computers in their skulls. You could take a ship to the moon or to Mars.
You spoke of stories a few moments ago. If you’re from one of those Earths that has England, Europe, stories of knights fighting dragons — as near as I can tell, the world I came from first is much as yours was around 1400. But people: they’re not very different anywhere.
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He responds to Sam with a firm nod, then looks around the cliff top.]
I wonder how many they lost before they found this plant, and how many they’ve lost getting it.
[But Sam has asked him something, so he adds,]
But aye, it was a god’s strength, a piece of it. That place wasn’t my home. Wasn’t anything like it. It had great walled cities. Everyone had computers in their skulls. You could take a ship to the moon or to Mars.
You spoke of stories a few moments ago. If you’re from one of those Earths that has England, Europe, stories of knights fighting dragons — as near as I can tell, the world I came from first is much as yours was around 1400. But people: they’re not very different anywhere.