[ Reynir nods. He's clearly given this some thought. ]
I don't know, either. There's plenty of space in the Agricultural section to grow enough food to sustain the population, so it wasn't like they were forced out by famine. The animals and plants there are still alive so nothing happened that would've wiped them out, too. And I haven't run into any corpses at all so if everyone died they didn't do it in here.
[ Abandoned places? So completely standard practice, to him. Even much of Reykjavík is empty after everyone migrated out to the country, afraid of contagion and forced there by famine. But he's not used to not knowing why a place is empty. ]
Oh! Japan!
[ He is so startled to actually recognize the name of the place, and it shows. Reynir's knowledge of the rest of the world is extremely limited, but: ]
That's an island, isn't it? Way way far away? I've heard of it!
[ Not really thinking about how very much context he's skipping and also whether what he's saying might potentially be a little distressing to hear, he adds: ]
They were the second country to close their borders, after Iceland, when the Illness started to spread all over the world. There's a few people - not a lot and mostly crackpots but still - who think maybe there might even be some survivors there!
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I don't know, either. There's plenty of space in the Agricultural section to grow enough food to sustain the population, so it wasn't like they were forced out by famine. The animals and plants there are still alive so nothing happened that would've wiped them out, too. And I haven't run into any corpses at all so if everyone died they didn't do it in here.
[ Abandoned places? So completely standard practice, to him. Even much of Reykjavík is empty after everyone migrated out to the country, afraid of contagion and forced there by famine. But he's not used to not knowing why a place is empty. ]
Oh! Japan!
[ He is so startled to actually recognize the name of the place, and it shows. Reynir's knowledge of the rest of the world is extremely limited, but: ]
That's an island, isn't it? Way way far away? I've heard of it!
[ Not really thinking about how very much context he's skipping and also whether what he's saying might potentially be a little distressing to hear, he adds: ]
They were the second country to close their borders, after Iceland, when the Illness started to spread all over the world. There's a few people - not a lot and mostly crackpots but still - who think maybe there might even be some survivors there!