"Money isn't always the same as power." Even though they did look a lot like, did gease the wheels and make a lot of things possible, especially on a single planet. Just not as much across the multiverse where power had a whole other definition. With demons, and monsters, and magic, and flash-Banging into somewhere the world already lost its war, and waking up on flying carriages taking you to floating islands, and waking up drowning inside fountains in overgrown parks.
She doesn't know what he says in Spanish, and the lingering look, brows quirking upward just enough, says as much. But so does the conviction with which he says it. The conviction about this person he spoke of maybe demanding more words in a language he could speak better. "Did he have the ability to do anything like this? Make you wake up in another world, or universe, or whatever this is?"
Re: Arrival: Jo Harvelle
"Money isn't always the same as power." Even though they did look a lot like, did gease the wheels and make a lot of things possible, especially on a single planet. Just not as much across the multiverse where power had a whole other definition. With demons, and monsters, and magic, and flash-Banging into somewhere the world already lost its war, and waking up on flying carriages taking you to floating islands, and waking up drowning inside fountains in overgrown parks.
She doesn't know what he says in Spanish, and the lingering look, brows quirking upward just enough, says as much. But so does the conviction with which he says it. The conviction about this person he spoke of maybe demanding more words in a language he could speak better. "Did he have the ability to do anything like this? Make you wake up in another world, or universe, or whatever this is?"