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Tweak says, "I dreamt I was a moran..."

Sorve Harth rem ir Estraven, Lord of Estre (otherlife) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2010-06-24 14:20:00

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After some exploration, I have learned this much: I am in a city named London. Somehow, I had come to be in possession of another person's belongings before arriving here, though I have no memory of being given them. It took some time to find the address on the cards, but I did, and found that the keys worked in the door, and no one was there.

Having nowhere else to go, I decided to remain here and do my best to learn about this world from the evidence of whomever's life I have inherited. I do not think they will mind. I do not think they will return. I only hope that wherever they have been taken, they do not have reason to miss it much.

This world, after all, is not so unlike my own as to be totally unrecognizable. Our technology is not so advanced as this. But our people... we are not the same at all, although we are the same. I must learn the right words, and how to recognize... "man" and "woman"...

Are there many here, who have fallen out of other worlds?

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ayounggreenman
2010-06-24 11:25 pm UTC (link)

There's hundreds. And many more who fell from different times, and different versions of this reality, and well, let's face it, everyone you'll meet on this board is a transplant.

So you're one of those beings that has no gender orientation? That's pretty nice, I bet, not having to worry about something so complex. Men are the ones with the lower voices and can grow facial hair, and women are fairer faced, generally, with breasts and a more curving body. There's other, more easy to distinguish traits, but nobody wanders around without clothes these days - men's genitals hang out, and women's are on the inside. There are people who like to blur the line between things, and it takes a little effort to figure out what they are in terms of gender, but I'd suggest working on the easy to tell ones first.

Good luck.

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otherlife
2010-06-24 11:56 pm UTC (link)

I know how male and female genitalia look and function. We are the same, you see -- I am human. Genly Ai told me that the scientists from the Ekumen believe that those from my planet and those from Earth and other human colonies are even reproductively compatible, though nobody has actually tried yet. I am only human in a slightly different way. We do have male and female, but only for a short time each month, and the difference is somewhat less pronounced. Most of the people I have seen here look very strange to me -- tall and pale with such different features and hair. And yet I seem not to be very strange to them. I know that Earth has people who look more like me. I must assume, then, that they usually to live in another part of the world.

Thank you for your wishes. I take it you also do not believe that we are prisoners here?

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