[ He proclaims it with absolute, child-like, bright-eyed delight. He had left home because he wanted to see new things, different places than where he'd grown up. He had done that in the Silent World but also it was terrifying there and he'd lost people and all that somewhat dulled his zeal for exploring. But it's all coming back, since he'd arrived here.
And that is the thing - meeting people from other places only makes him appreciate the beauty of his homeland in new ways, consider how it might seem to them with their experiences and beliefs. When Genji mentions the aurora, Reynir nods, smiling:]
It is. I hope you get to see it one day.
[ Then, because he is intensely curious about this man (even if a little part of his mind is worried he'll ask another question that is unintentionally very rude, like the one about him being a machine): ]
You're from somewhere further south? Where?
[ Not that he'll have heard of it based on past experiences but you never know. ]
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[ He proclaims it with absolute, child-like, bright-eyed delight. He had left home because he wanted to see new things, different places than where he'd grown up. He had done that in the Silent World but also it was terrifying there and he'd lost people and all that somewhat dulled his zeal for exploring. But it's all coming back, since he'd arrived here.
And that is the thing - meeting people from other places only makes him appreciate the beauty of his homeland in new ways, consider how it might seem to them with their experiences and beliefs. When Genji mentions the aurora, Reynir nods, smiling:]
It is. I hope you get to see it one day.
[ Then, because he is intensely curious about this man (even if a little part of his mind is worried he'll ask another question that is unintentionally very rude, like the one about him being a machine): ]
You're from somewhere further south? Where?
[ Not that he'll have heard of it based on past experiences but you never know. ]