"If you wanted, you could probably talk to that new congressperson to see if she's got access to actual records of who's been here from the outside," Cindy said, wiggling her fingers a little in deference to the mystique of the city. "But yeah, that was one of the first things that had popped to my mind as well when I came. There's definitely some trends, even if you only look at the sample of people who are here from the outside today. Like, there's a pretty strong likelihood that multiple people who know each other or have some kind of indirect connection can show up together in the city. Six, almost seven billion people in my world, and somehow in a population of hundreds from the outside, I happen to have met two people? And have alternate ties to two more? Definitely not random. Also lots of North American representation, fair amount of European." She waved her hand, then jotted down a few more terms and topics that Lois had touched on.
With a grin, she leaned over and brought out some of the notes she had been taking down on Kagura, which included some civilian-shot photos of the yeti. (And some were pretty high fidelity for being amateur shots — smartphone technology had really advanced since Cindy went down in that bunker.)
"But yeah, you're right. There's so much crazy stuff that goes on in this city, and it all kind of gets brushed aside, like 'oh, stuff happens in Darrow.' Mainstream news outlets don't bother trying to get down to the bottom of anything, and lord only knows that our Mayor seems to be nothing more than some kind of figurehead or pawn. No one could even track down where in the government the idea beyond those bionic birds — were you here for that? — even started from. Personally, I'm a bit more intrigued by the criminal side of things than the weird natural phenomenons, but the two kind of go hand in hand. Weird stuff happens, and then someone always has to be an opportunist and try to take advantage of it."
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"If you wanted, you could probably talk to that new congressperson to see if she's got access to actual records of who's been here from the outside," Cindy said, wiggling her fingers a little in deference to the mystique of the city. "But yeah, that was one of the first things that had popped to my mind as well when I came. There's definitely some trends, even if you only look at the sample of people who are here from the outside today. Like, there's a pretty strong likelihood that multiple people who know each other or have some kind of indirect connection can show up together in the city. Six, almost seven billion people in my world, and somehow in a population of hundreds from the outside, I happen to have met two people? And have alternate ties to two more? Definitely not random. Also lots of North American representation, fair amount of European." She waved her hand, then jotted down a few more terms and topics that Lois had touched on.
With a grin, she leaned over and brought out some of the notes she had been taking down on Kagura, which included some civilian-shot photos of the yeti. (And some were pretty high fidelity for being amateur shots — smartphone technology had really advanced since Cindy went down in that bunker.)
"But yeah, you're right. There's so much crazy stuff that goes on in this city, and it all kind of gets brushed aside, like 'oh, stuff happens in Darrow.' Mainstream news outlets don't bother trying to get down to the bottom of anything, and lord only knows that our Mayor seems to be nothing more than some kind of figurehead or pawn. No one could even track down where in the government the idea beyond those bionic birds — were you here for that? — even started from. Personally, I'm a bit more intrigued by the criminal side of things than the weird natural phenomenons, but the two kind of go hand in hand. Weird stuff happens, and then someone always has to be an opportunist and try to take advantage of it."