"No," Atlan said. "I'm an exception." He wasn't going to mention the cell activator or IT.
"I've also been trapped on this miserable piece of dirt for the past few millennia. About since your Stone Age. It's getting tedious. Every time you get some culture anywhere close to the point of building space ships - " he gestured - "BOOM! And they manage to blow themselves up or otherwise lose all their knowledge and someone else has to start all anew."
If this was true they had a lot in common, but Jan didn't dare say so yet. But ...
"If you've been here this long, then you must have seen how much things change in a thousand years, even in a century. Won't things have changed on your planet as well? Are you even sure it's still there after all this time?"
He remembered returning to his former home town about a century after his first death. It had been quite a shock to see how everything had changed.
"My people rule a vast, interstellar empire," Atlan said firmly. "Of course they're still there!"
Keep telling yourself that, his extra-sense chimed in. Maybe you'll start believing it some day, old fool
"And even if things changed, being back in proper civilisation will be better than living among savages."
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Date: Saturday, 15 October 2011 20:29 (UTC)"I've also been trapped on this miserable piece of dirt for the past few millennia. About since your Stone Age. It's getting tedious. Every time you get some culture anywhere close to the point of building space ships - " he gestured - "BOOM! And they manage to blow themselves up or otherwise lose all their knowledge and someone else has to start all anew."
If this was true they had a lot in common, but Jan didn't dare say so yet. But ...
"If you've been here this long, then you must have seen how much things change in a thousand years, even in a century. Won't things have changed on your planet as well? Are you even sure it's still there after all this time?"
He remembered returning to his former home town about a century after his first death. It had been quite a shock to see how everything had changed.
"My people rule a vast, interstellar empire," Atlan said firmly. "Of course they're still there!"
Keep telling yourself that, his extra-sense chimed in. Maybe you'll start believing it some day, old fool
"And even if things changed, being back in proper civilisation will be better than living among savages."