She just likes explaining stuff.
Mar. 20th, 2006 04:52 pm"- they're depressing mountains," Hero said uncertainly.
Nera had been waiting for him to say something, and this clearly disappointed her. She corrected, "No. They are oppressive mountains. They are coming this way."
"...sometimes mountains do that just, naturally. Because - there are these plates underground that kind of ram together and -"
"These mountains appear one by one. A dense, wet fog appears in a place where a new mountain is being formed, and something huge and black falls into the fog with a clang like a great bell. Sounds of chisels echo from within - and they echo even when they shouldn't. Those who enter the fog are lifted up and dropped at random places far away with headaches that linger for up to a year. The fog and the sculptors remain for two months, until one morning the fog lifts, leaving a new mountain already covered with lichen, sparse bushes, and goats, and signed somewhere around the base by its designer. Most of the recent ones are by someone named Chethura; I am told he has admirers in the cities -"
"All right, all right, yeah. Tectonic plates don't really, have goats."
Nera had been waiting for him to say something, and this clearly disappointed her. She corrected, "No. They are oppressive mountains. They are coming this way."
"...sometimes mountains do that just, naturally. Because - there are these plates underground that kind of ram together and -"
"These mountains appear one by one. A dense, wet fog appears in a place where a new mountain is being formed, and something huge and black falls into the fog with a clang like a great bell. Sounds of chisels echo from within - and they echo even when they shouldn't. Those who enter the fog are lifted up and dropped at random places far away with headaches that linger for up to a year. The fog and the sculptors remain for two months, until one morning the fog lifts, leaving a new mountain already covered with lichen, sparse bushes, and goats, and signed somewhere around the base by its designer. Most of the recent ones are by someone named Chethura; I am told he has admirers in the cities -"
"All right, all right, yeah. Tectonic plates don't really, have goats."