"No, it was fun," Tracey was adamant on that point. "Or it is when you don't know any different. We had horses and mother had a couple of Crups so I always had animals to play with even if I couldn't see my friends."
She looked at him, frowning as she tried to explain. "I don't know. I keep feeling like everything I say makes me look even more ill-suited to this environment and I don't want to appear different," she confided, tucking her hair behind her ear with her free hand.
"The medical research is an idea. Easier than looking in a big book for obscure cures that are only needed once every two hundred years," she said, smiling. "The internet sounds useful... I suppose it would change our world significantly, right?"