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They've apparently remodeled the train station a lot since last week; it seems to be set up to look like a restaurant now.
Sadness goes looking for the train.
Sadness and Aether in Milliways
subtly_artistic
"Uh, it's a large monarchy with a bunch of provinces and a decently high standard of living at least for humans?"
"A Monarchy? That's- a sort of country right? I hope things aren't too bad for nonhumans there. Who are you from?"
Sadness is looking anxious and speaking hesitantly again.
"Like- I'm from Riley, she's twelve years old and she plays hockey and lives in San Francisco? And you must be from someone else?
San Francisco is a city."
"Um. Wow. I've never met a real human like this before. I think maybe I should get the other emotions?"
subtly_artistic
"I guess not, if she has you and the... other... emotions... as prostheses? Is this normal where you're from?"
"I think so? I've never been in anyone else's head, but we always assumed they thought the same way Riley did?"
subtly_artistic
"I'm pretty sure people don't work like that where I'm from and I'm not sure how it'd work."
"Well, we have a control room where we watch what she sees and listen to what she hears and so on, and we talk about what she should do and we have a control panel we can use to direct her feelings and thoughts and desires in directions that we think are helpful to her? Recently I've been helping her find ways to get back the parts of her life she lost when her family had to move from Minnesota to San Francisco, so I've been getting her to think about those things a lot. Also she was really rude to one of her friends and I've been getting her to look for ways to make up for that."