[It's said softly and a little astonished. Only a dozen or so, maybe more if anyone else wakes up in the mud and gets helped to the surface by someone or another... Very few compared to the number of people dying at any given point, if there's a lot of different worlds all flowing to the same river. None of their things from home, so no television or books or internet. No need to eat anymore, since they're dead...]
And I heard we don't need to sleep, either. I guess that leaves a lot of time for trading, uh, life stories?
[Of course, depending on how secretive, self-conscious, or scared they are, the actual telling of life stories could be a slow process. Maybe those tangling feelings are the things people are supposed to be giving up actually? A skeleton can hope.]
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[It's said softly and a little astonished. Only a dozen or so, maybe more if anyone else wakes up in the mud and gets helped to the surface by someone or another... Very few compared to the number of people dying at any given point, if there's a lot of different worlds all flowing to the same river. None of their things from home, so no television or books or internet. No need to eat anymore, since they're dead...]
And I heard we don't need to sleep, either. I guess that leaves a lot of time for trading, uh, life stories?
[Of course, depending on how secretive, self-conscious, or scared they are, the actual telling of life stories could be a slow process. Maybe those tangling feelings are the things people are supposed to be giving up actually? A skeleton can hope.]