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

[andstill]

Type: Text
Sender ID: andstill (Ardbert Hylfyst)
To: Public Post
Subject: 🧍‍♂️?
Warnings: None

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?

Comments

text; un: makoglow

[makoglow]

You must come from a pretty colorful place then.

Short side of the mean though?

[andstill]

Aye. If you figured out the average of everyone's height, I think hume like you and I would be a little less than that.

[makoglow]

You don't strike me as a short guy though.

[ Cloud is just short, tbh ]

[andstill]

That's the funny thing. Seems like I'm taller than most, at least here.

Back home, with my friends, I'd be one of the smallest. One of was half my height again, and the other two had a head and shoulders on me at least.

It's them I'm worried about, with this. Or not worried, really. I had this nagging thought that maybe if they found themselves here, the place wouldn't be kind to them. I know that's not true, but that doesn't stop the idea from rattling around in my head.

[makoglow]

Why wouldn't this place be kind? As much as a place that kind of yanks people from where they originally are from can be.

Haven't really had issues here myself.