"He didn't die, no, but he was rendered blind for a time," Yrael replies, touching his napkin to the corners of his mouth after he finishes his oysters. "And perhaps rendered a little more cautious."
"The Nobodies, yes. Most of those who came to Milliways regained their hearts, or acquired new ones. I did hear that one of their number had made large quantities of muffins after regaining their heart, for then they could once more find joy in it. The Nobodies came to Milliways from a world consisting of a grouping of different worlds, each distinct and separate but in the same neighborhood, so to speak, and they had ways of traversing between them."
Thus a sheaf of worlds. Like a gathering of individual wheat stalks.
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Date: 2016-08-27 07:01 pm (UTC)From:"The Nobodies, yes. Most of those who came to Milliways regained their hearts, or acquired new ones. I did hear that one of their number had made large quantities of muffins after regaining their heart, for then they could once more find joy in it. The Nobodies came to Milliways from a world consisting of a grouping of different worlds, each distinct and separate but in the same neighborhood, so to speak, and they had ways of traversing between them."
Thus a sheaf of worlds. Like a gathering of individual wheat stalks.