He hates having to rely on charity for proper food, but for some reason the drone family this place placed him with seems to assume that he prefers five times processed pebbles and refuse meat covered in gooey sauce over actual, proper meat. Or even other proper foods.
And while to a degree he can feed himself - there are "adorable bunnies" in the park that are surprisingly clean, and he can break into the butcher's at night without much of a problem - dropping by Torin's place makes things easier. But it's still a weird way of acquiring food. It reminds him unfortunately of his childhood. But he's found a way around that feeling, at least.
"Only if you're going to eat, too. I can wait."
He flops down on the ground, watching Torin bustle about his tree.
"Shouldn't be too much longer, then, I just want to finish my pruning." Torin examines part of the tree before snipping off a bit. There's a library book open nearby with pictures and instructions on how to care for the tree; he must have had one of his housemates get it from the library for him. "How has your day been?" he asks as he works. "It's been rather quiet here. Nothing to do but help one of the kids with a history report."
"Nothing new." He's been trying to track down ...anyone or anything useful for a while now, but been unable to find anything. No matter how he goes about it, he can't find anything. It's frustrating.
And not like there is anything else for him to do here. Nothing he ever does seems to have any effect.
"...History report?" He assumes that it is something unimportant, but maybe it isn't.
"Yes, on the building of the pyramids...all the library books were dreadfully inaccurate. I witnessed the undertaking, and I think my insights were rather helpful." Torin talks about being at the building of the pyramids in the most casual, matter-of-fact way possible.
Torin will get the blankest of stares at this. The way humans approach talking about what happened in the past has always eluded him and probably will always elude him a bit, partly because he doesn't want to look into it more - it's one of the clearest signs of just how deeply entangled they are with the Weaver. Before one even looks at electronics and all that.
And the way Torin talks about it is very human. Dates and it being important how the details were in truth and abstractions and pressing stories of the past into a rigid, unmoving system.
Thinking about it, he has never heard him tell a proper story of the past. Maybe he isn't that bad once he gets talking? And really, most of all he just wants someone to talk to him normally right now. It's been a long day. So he'll even accept a story that will put him to sleep, if that is how Torin's telling turns out.
"Oh, the Egyptians built them, certainly, the schooling was correct in that much, but the methods they described." Torin shakes his head. "They completely failed to take into account the actual engineering behind it all! No understanding of using simple machines to help move the blocks..."
"You should tell a story about a single person involved with them. That will make it stick more." Hey, he's learned how to get stories that won't put him to sleep out of people who tell stories like humans. Took him a while, but it works half the time.
"True, true..." Torin thoughtfully strokes at his...well, it looks like a mustache. "The problem there is that I did not really...engage much with the humans at that point. I did not know any of them personally. I merely observed." There's a pause. "It is very difficult to get to know people when you look like a deity as far as they are concerned."
"Wouldn't that have meant that they'd be friendlier towards you?"
Technically, he would say that not engaging much with humans isn't a bad idea, but that reasoning seems odd. Typically you won't attack whom you revere, right?
"There's friendly, and then there's reverent. The latter gets awkward, I've found. You can't have a true friendship if both parties cannot see themselves as equals." Torin shakes his head. "I would rather the former, really."
"Not anywhere." There are a few places in his place that he would very decidedly not want to be in, and actually prefers this place to. Like in the middle of a Black Spiral Dancer hive or at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.
"At the time, filled with monsters I had to kill the ghosts of so that they couldn't rise again>" Torin shakes his head. "It would have been rather cold and dark and lonely without that, I suppose."
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And while to a degree he can feed himself - there are "adorable bunnies" in the park that are surprisingly clean, and he can break into the butcher's at night without much of a problem - dropping by Torin's place makes things easier. But it's still a weird way of acquiring food. It reminds him unfortunately of his childhood. But he's found a way around that feeling, at least.
"Only if you're going to eat, too. I can wait."
He flops down on the ground, watching Torin bustle about his tree.
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And not like there is anything else for him to do here. Nothing he ever does seems to have any effect.
"...History report?" He assumes that it is something unimportant, but maybe it isn't.
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And the way Torin talks about it is very human. Dates and it being important how the details were in truth and abstractions and pressing stories of the past into a rigid, unmoving system.
Thinking about it, he has never heard him tell a proper story of the past. Maybe he isn't that bad once he gets talking? And really, most of all he just wants someone to talk to him normally right now. It's been a long day. So he'll even accept a story that will put him to sleep, if that is how Torin's telling turns out.
"Who built them?"
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Technically, he would say that not engaging much with humans isn't a bad idea, but that reasoning seems odd. Typically you won't attack whom you revere, right?
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Not that he said anything about Torin befriending them. Only that they would be friendlier towards him.
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Sure, he would do his level best to leave Egypt as quickly as possible because Egypt, but...
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"What is it like?"
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"What kind of monsters?" C'mon, Torin, you can do it, tell a proper story.