Something New

<table><tbody><tr><td><div style="padding:15px;"><div><div><div style="border:8px solid #ffffff;width:125px;height:125px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;float:left;"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/DlQE189.png" style="height:125px;"></div></div><div style="text-align:justify;">Avian needn't have worried. Enelen wasn't the kind of person who was big on guessing games. He was big on knowledge, and there were very few things that he'd actively attempt to hide to people.

It was far more likely that he'd talk her ear off.

"Oh, it's from another..." He paused for a moment, always stuck on what to call it. Reality? Universe? "World. It's like this one, but different - the big thing is that while magic is rare here and only some people have it, where I'm from, everyone has it, so it's completely normal. But you guys have a bunch of stuff we don't have, like 'electricity'." The way he said electricity made it clear it wasn't a word he was used to saying. "It's really interesting how you guys managed to work around simple problems that are easily solved with magic, like lighting a room at night." He was, to say the least, a very enthusiastic person when it came to comparing the two worlds, and he realized it would be a very long time before he fully understood the world. There was a lot of stuff that still tripped him up, catching him unawares by being so strange. Computers were downright baffling.
</div>[/thoth] @"Poison-star" </div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>​

<table><tbody><tr><td><div style="padding:15px;"><div><div><div style="border:8px solid #ffffff;width:125px;height:125px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;float:left;"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/VYU5nsB.png" style="height:125px;"></div></div><div style="text-align:justify;">Enelen was actually perfectly fine with being bombarded with questions. Questions meant someone was interested in learning, and letting people learn... well, that was why he was there. He loved learning, and he loved helping people learn, and he had never really understood why people didn't like questions.

"Sort of. We all had to leave, so there was this... mass casting, basically. So everyone was sent to different worlds, but it wasn't entirely under your own power." Like being helped along, even if you started the spell yourself. "It took a long time though - the first people left more than a month before me, and there were lots who hadn't gone yet when I left." They were literally evacuating an entire planet, and there was no way to do that fast.
</div>[/thoth] @"Poison-star" </div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>​

<table><tbody><tr><td><div style="padding:15px;"><div><div><div style="border:8px solid #ffffff;width:125px;height:125px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;float:left;"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/DlQE189.png" style="height:125px;"></div></div><div style="text-align:justify;">Dark or not, Enelen never felt like it was right to deny someone knowledge. And for that matter, it was the sort of thing he wanted to share. Hadn't he decided it was important to let people know, to keep them from making those same mistakes over and over again?

"We'd killed our world - we'd used the earth's mana as a mana supply for grand workings, and eventually we took too much, and it started to die. So we had to leave - plants weren't growing, and if we'd stayed, we all would have starved." He admitted. "Magic takes more energy to make food then you'd get from it, so our only real option was to leave." To leave and carry the message, hoping to prevent it from happening elsewhere.
</div>[/thoth] @"poison-star" </div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>​

<table><tbody><tr><td><div style="padding:15px;"><div><div><div style="border:8px solid #ffffff;width:125px;height:125px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;float:left;"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/NaM8wES.png" style="height:125px;"></div></div><div style="text-align:justify;">As grim as the mood probably should have been, Enelen wasn't really showing it. He wasn't smiling quite as large as he had been, but he was still smiling. He'd had three years of getting used to the idea. He'd had three years to mourn, three years to say goodbye to those he knew. Most people didn't get a chance to say goodbye - but he had.

He nodded once. "I'm fine. We jumped before the earth ran dry. Food was pretty bland before I jumped, but I was one of the first people to jump, so it wasn't so bad." They weren't quite at the point of rationing, but they had been at a point where they were definitely keeping an eye on it. "It's nice here. It's very different though. I'm still getting used to all this technology stuff."

Plus, he'd been lucky enough to pop out on Manta Carlos itself. Or perhaps lucky was the wrong word - he'd been aimed towards sources of mana, and there was lots of magic going on.
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