"Yeah, but it could still take a few years," Stephie says. "Right now, we're just kind of squatting in this really weird old castle, and the adults are all talking about setting up some kind of school for us." She rolls her eyes at that. School as she remembered it was boring. "We've got generators and stuff for electric, but that's about it. And rebuilding things from scratch gets hard - You can't go raid a Radio Shack for parts when there isn't one. Erdammeru keeps having to make pieces for things, like they think he's some kind of 3d printer with paws."
"Hey,"Jokester says, trying to look serious, "If you don't have school, you have nowhere to play hooky from. .... Wait, that was probably bad advice."
Duela just laughs, then manages to add, "I think it'll get easier when we have more people who know how to do all the little things nobody thinks of until nobody's doing it. Well, and it'll get a little harder too, because the only ones who know how to grow food are Aunt Pammy and her kids, and they don't do animals..."
"Lobster's easy to catch on the beach," Stephie comments, "but I think I'm going to be sick of it by the time this is over... and by 'over' I mean whenever we have grocery stores again. The Nexus is good at filling in holes like that, but no one wants to use it as too much of a crutch."
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Date: 2018-12-18 08:24 am (UTC)"Hey,"Jokester says, trying to look serious, "If you don't have school, you have nowhere to play hooky from. .... Wait, that was probably bad advice."
Duela just laughs, then manages to add, "I think it'll get easier when we have more people who know how to do all the little things nobody thinks of until nobody's doing it. Well, and it'll get a little harder too, because the only ones who know how to grow food are Aunt Pammy and her kids, and they don't do animals..."
"Lobster's easy to catch on the beach," Stephie comments, "but I think I'm going to be sick of it by the time this is over... and by 'over' I mean whenever we have grocery stores again. The Nexus is good at filling in holes like that, but no one wants to use it as too much of a crutch."