Awe-inspiring, isn't it? The mechanisms of it, the patterns and functions and cycles of gases into stars into elements and compounds then life, which just makes more and more and more life, all just to see what's already there.
THIA
there issss assss many inhabited planetssss in the universssse assss there are sssstarssss in the martssssian ssssky, and assss many without life assss our dusssst cloudssss.
𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗔𝗥.
Venus too?! Wow! Is our solar system unusually abundant with life or is it really that common across the galaxy?
THIA
my people had deep relationssssss with the peoplessss of venussssss. of coursssse, they, too, died out in the heat . . .
𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗔𝗥.
( she replicates it perfectly. )
Ta-da! I'd love to learn all about Martian languages. I mean can you believe we're from the same solar system? Right next door even! Life must be nearly everywhere.
THIA
ah. i undersssstand. you are teaching me many thingssss about the urf peoplessss, thia-of-clan-dek. in my tribe, we would usssse: ( he does a very complicated gesture that is impossible to put into words )
𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗔𝗥.
( giving him a double thumbs up of her own. )
You know, all is well, no danger, proceed, we're good. They may have used it while hunting to silently communicate, to better avoid disturbing wary prey.
THIA
what issss . . . O-K?
𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗔𝗥.
Yes!! That one is ubiquitous among humans, even the ones who don't know any sort of sign language, isn't that interesting? I guess a universal OK signal is very very useful in lots of situations.
THIA
i believe that your creatorsssss have . . . an expressssion.
( thinking it through very intently; slowly raising his arms, as if to hit her, then lowering them again and giving her, carefully, two thumbs up. )
