December FamMeet

[cleavethetides]

Who: The Grove
What: Town Hall
When: Mid-Late December
Where: Inn Lobby
Warnings: Child death mentions, torture, body horror all probably will be brought up.

[ In the morning, Irene will trek around the Grove to knock on doors and let everyone know she's setting up a information sharing meeting in the Inn's lobby. She figures there would be best, considering the new fireplace (thread pending on my behalf) set up and the fact it's about as safe as they're going to get.

Irene also lets everyone know that any fights and any blatant drama starters will be met with punishment. She doesn't elaborate on this further. Zahliya is invited. Irene tells Moder if she wants to sit by the door to listen, she can. She does not invite the merchant siblings, however - though she'll make no objections if someone else does.

She seems to be writing things down in their shared journals this meeting so people can reference this later. ]

Comments

[succiduous]

Not exactly. I can tell he's Caprinae, a Terran race, and he mentioned being from one of our countries, but I don't recognize him beyond that.

[amhran]

Oh I see... So even in your realm, it is impossible to know everyone?

[succiduous]

Caoimhe, there are billions of people on Terra.

[amhran]

What...? W-What is .... What is a Billion?

[ THERE IS ONLY MAYBE LIKE a few MILLION PEOPLE ON HER CONTINENT LIKE WHAT IS A BILLION? CAN YOU EAT iT? ]

[succiduous]

[Gnosis flips a page in his notebook and writes "1,000,000" at the top.]

One million.

[Then, he writes underneath that, "1,000,000,000".]

One billion. Mathematically, there are one thousand millions in one billion.

[amhran]

.... What... What are these writings? I... Why are there so many zeros... T-That isn't possible right...? [ What is math actually... ]

[succiduous]

Wait until I tell you about trillions later. Expect mathematics classes on our agenda in the future.

[amhran]

O-Oh... Right of course... [ There's a slight bit of silence on her end, looking him over with a hard look. ] You mean... There are almost countless amounts of people on your world?

[ She looks downwards, smiling faintly... ]

That is... So wonderful.