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Cullen Rutherford ([info]cdrcullen) wrote in [info]the100,
@ 2015-08-24 20:56:00

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Entry tags:!network post, cullen rutherford, kaidan alenko, penelope featherington, river tam, veronica santangelo

The sky is the sky, yes? You look up at night, and there are the moons and the stars, and unless you're a scholar you likely don't know more than a single constellation or two. The rest are simply the vast mass of stars, largely indistinguishable from one another.

That was what I thought, at any rate. On patrol tonight, though, I looked up at the sky above, and it wasn't only the fact that we have but one moon here that seemed odd. It was the stars. I couldn't even tell you the names of more than two or three stars in the sky I know, but I can look up into this sky and know that it is not the one I slept under before.

It's a very odd feeling. One thing to know, another to realize.

[Penelope]
I owe you an apology for the other night. It's not as if I don't know that I sleep poorly after a bad day. I ought to have warned you.



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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 01:41 am UTC (link)
No, it is certainly not Earth. Our minerals are different, the laws of nature are different...I doubt if it is in this dimension, much less this planet.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 01:48 am UTC (link)
Makes me wonder. I've traveled a lot of places in the galaxy, and seen the stars from plenty of different angles.

I wonder if you could draw the night sky you're used to seeing and the positions of the stars and I could compare it to charts I have, see if I could pinpoint a location.




Probably not, but I have free time.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 01:52 am UTC (link)
I spent a couple of years with insomnia and a hole in my roof. It's a rather limited selection of stars that I know well, but I could give you that much, at least.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 01:57 am UTC (link)
You had a hole in your roof?

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 02:10 am UTC (link)
I did! We had an entire castle to renovate, and there were other, more pressing matters to see to. We needed to make sure Skyhold could withstand a direct assault if necessary, so I didn't bother adding the roof to the repairs list. I could have moved to the barracks if it truly bothered me, but I preferred to have my own space. Something of a trade-off.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 02:14 am UTC (link)
Well, that's not so bad. I bet the fresh air was nice — I spent a lot of time on ships, and got used to sealed environments and recycled air. Having a fresh breeze and clean air to breathe actually sounds great.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 02:29 am UTC (link)
Any time it's not actually raining or snowing, it's not bad at all. I had good blankets, and on a clear night the view is stunning. And when it did happen to rain or snow, I just shoved the bed off into the corner.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 02:34 am UTC (link)
This was at ... Skyhold? Where was it, up in the mountains?

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 02:48 am UTC (link)
Skyhold, yes. High in the Frostback Mountains, in the south of Ferelden. Cold as the Void up there, but I've never seen such a clear sky.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 02:51 am UTC (link)
It sounds beautiful. I'm not a fan of being in the snow — but the last time I was really in the snow was on Noveria, and that's an extreme case. Cold, clean air and a view to kill for ... I wish I could see it.

You don't have pictures, do you?

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 02:57 am UTC (link)
I don't care much for cold, either, but as my father used to say "there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing." Put on a bear fur cloak to keep the wind out of your ears and it's really not so bad.

I'm afraid not--I am no artist, and we do not have photographs on my world.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 03:11 am UTC (link)
You know, I had top-grade armor and I still got snow in my boots. Give me bear fur and maybe Noveria wouldn't have been so bad. Nice decor inside Port Hanshan, though. Tasteful.


[...] What about electricity?

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 03:23 am UTC (link)
Snow in the boots is miserable. The day I had coin enough to get boots made to fit so I hardly ever had to deal with that anymore was a beautiful day indeed.

Electricity like we have here, running the lights and all? No, nothing of the sort. Until I came here, I had only ever seen it as the destructive power of lightning.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 03:51 am UTC (link)
That's completely foreign to me, I'm going to admit that right now.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 04:03 am UTC (link)
I can imagine, if you're accustomed to all this! Electricity and such were equally foreign to me when I first arrived. Frankly, it's still rather foreign. Five nights out of seven, I come into my quarters and have to remind myself to turn on the light rather than light a candle.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 04:08 am UTC (link)
I went to camp when I was twelve, and stayed overnight for a week at a cabin in the woods. We didn't have any electricity or running water, that's the closest to your kind of life that I've ever led.


I liked the peace and quiet, but I never did it again.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 07:14 pm UTC (link)
I must admit, showers with hot water are a thing of beauty. Even a king cannot command luxury such as that in my homeland.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Wait until you try a jacuzzi. Someone has to build one around here.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 07:57 pm UTC (link)
What is a jacuzzi?

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 07:59 pm UTC (link)
It's a hot tub with jets of water that you can lean against and they massage you.

Shepard had one in his apartment on the Citadel. I'm telling you, it's great.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 08:05 pm UTC (link)
Maker's breath! That sounds amazing. Even just a hot bath is a luxury in my world.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 08:20 pm UTC (link)
It's beyond good. It's Heaven after a long day. It might be better than sex.

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[info]cdrcullen
2015-08-25 08:34 pm UTC (link)
That is a very tall claim, serrah.

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[info]secondspectre
2015-08-25 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Sex in a jacuzzi, on the other hand...

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