text; local human doesn't know what a human is.

[andstill]

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Sender ID: andstill (Ardbert Hylfyst)
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Figure it's normal that someone would come here and see people the likes of which they've never seen before. Makes sense, that. New place, new people.

Thing that's confusing me is, more folk here look like me than ever did back home. All skin, ears the shape of seashells, two eyes, somewhere on the short side of of the mean. We call people like me hume, back home. Or hyur? I think it was hyur. Something like that. We cluster together sometimes, big families and all. But most cities, you'd see all kinds of folk. And they'd be built to be used by all kinds of folk, too. Everything made for people of all sorts of sizes.

Here it feels like every other person is my size. And I don't know I've seen more than a couple doors that a zun could get through comfortably.

That's not normal, is it? For there to be so many hume and so few of everyone else?

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[activatingcombatmode]

Wow, that's weird to think. Can't say I know much about other worlds and how they work though.

I've definitely seen more human riftfarers like us. The locals, not as much. Probably a decent mix of non-humans there too.

We're all the same inside though, right?

[andstill]

Aye. It doesn't matter, really. Save for that I worry about the little things. I have a friend, about twice my size. And another about a third my height. If they showed up here today, I wouldn't know where to go to find the both of them a chair they could sit in comfortably.

That's what this is about, I suppose. And the solution's simple. I'd just ask for help.

[activatingcombatmode]

[Bro... That's so real.]

You're right, if your friends ended up here you'd have to spend a fortune on custom furniture. But there's got to be some decent carpenters around.