But then, what constituted a long time? If it were the Martin he was before, it may as well have been a century. If clarity poured out freely through his senses once more, it was barely the length of a single breath. The moment he was in, the way he was...it almost inevitably put him in the middle of both.
He still didn't really know much about calendars and date-keeping, either.
"I don't know many people here who have stayed as long as I have. A lot have gone." Vanished, or dead in certain cases. Gone.
His smile quirked faintly. "But I never learned enough about how things work here, after all that time. That's strange, isn't it?"
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But then, what constituted a long time? If it were the Martin he was before, it may as well have been a century. If clarity poured out freely through his senses once more, it was barely the length of a single breath. The moment he was in, the way he was...it almost inevitably put him in the middle of both.
He still didn't really know much about calendars and date-keeping, either.
"I don't know many people here who have stayed as long as I have. A lot have gone." Vanished, or dead in certain cases. Gone.
His smile quirked faintly. "But I never learned enough about how things work here, after all that time. That's strange, isn't it?"