"That's a lot of questions," Sigma said with a grin, though his empty stomach tightened as Eponine mentioned his son. "I suppose we do have the time..." But he wished to pretend that their conversation was private, that whatever he said to Eponine was between the two of them and the two of them alone.
Leaning back on the wall of the cave again, Sigma raised his eye to the ceiling. "I was born in the year 2006 in California. You know, it's the same place..." He had almost said 'where Howard lived,' but thought better of it. Quickly searching for how to finish the sentence, he spat, "...where the second to last Arena was held. Do you remember? I used to live around there." In this case 'around' meant a commute from anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour or more depending on how insane the traffic was, but it was a reasonable substitute.
"My parents divorced early into their marriage and my mother raised me. I did not see my father often, and it took me a long time to realize he wasn't much of one." Sigma smiles in spite of himself. Just as he was to his son, in turn.
He suddenly remembered something considerably less grim she might find interesting. Sigma had never directly asked Eponine what era she came from, but he had an idea - he pushes himself off of the wall and leans towards her. "You know, Eponine, I've told you before there were billions of people alive when I was young. Allow me to explain to you what I mean... I'd wager that in the time you're from, there were no more than 500 million people alive on Earth. When I was your age, there was more than seven billion," he explained. "Think of the largest of cities you've been to, and then imagine it more than ten times as crowded. That would roughly equal out to the scope of the place where I was raised."
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Leaning back on the wall of the cave again, Sigma raised his eye to the ceiling. "I was born in the year 2006 in California. You know, it's the same place..." He had almost said 'where Howard lived,' but thought better of it. Quickly searching for how to finish the sentence, he spat, "...where the second to last Arena was held. Do you remember? I used to live around there." In this case 'around' meant a commute from anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour or more depending on how insane the traffic was, but it was a reasonable substitute.
"My parents divorced early into their marriage and my mother raised me. I did not see my father often, and it took me a long time to realize he wasn't much of one." Sigma smiles in spite of himself. Just as he was to his son, in turn.
He suddenly remembered something considerably less grim she might find interesting. Sigma had never directly asked Eponine what era she came from, but he had an idea - he pushes himself off of the wall and leans towards her. "You know, Eponine, I've told you before there were billions of people alive when I was young. Allow me to explain to you what I mean... I'd wager that in the time you're from, there were no more than 500 million people alive on Earth. When I was your age, there was more than seven billion," he explained. "Think of the largest of cities you've been to, and then imagine it more than ten times as crowded. That would roughly equal out to the scope of the place where I was raised."