"Damn. Well, this is about what you'd get, only a beach would have the ocean. It's going to be really hot in the day and really cold at night..." So that was a double incentive for finding shelter. There had been tents before, right? Definitely something in the videos like that. "But we'll really need water."
She knows a lot more about deserts, down to little details about microclimates and how to best survive in them, but it's better to keep that sort of thing close to her chest.
"Duh, no, it's 2011," she says, because those seven years make a difference. "But are you really? That's, what, like French revolution times? Let them eat cake, and all that?" The names surface immediately in her mind-- the Bourbon restoration, the shift into the July monarchy, the beginning of colonization in Africa-- but she's got to keep up the appearances. "Games on the wall...?"
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She knows a lot more about deserts, down to little details about microclimates and how to best survive in them, but it's better to keep that sort of thing close to her chest.
"Duh, no, it's 2011," she says, because those seven years make a difference. "But are you really? That's, what, like French revolution times? Let them eat cake, and all that?" The names surface immediately in her mind-- the Bourbon restoration, the shift into the July monarchy, the beginning of colonization in Africa-- but she's got to keep up the appearances. "Games on the wall...?"