[ Maia has never heard of either country, but he doesn't have to be familiar with them to imagine how hard that must have been. He had been torn from the only home he'd ever known when he was ten, too. It surprises him, that Billy isn't sure of his precise age. Maia remembers the details of that period in his own life so vividly. But different people react to situations differently, and the death of his mother had helped to mark the exact date in his mind.
He switches the conversation setting to private - checks and double checks that he has done it correctly, since this technology is all so new to him - and de-selects the anonymity feature. If he is going to be asking Billy for help, he might as well start the process of unmasking himself. ]
You have my sympathy. I know your journey must have been difficult. I was sent away at that age, too, though I suspect the circumstances were very different.
[ To put it mildly. But he does not mention that because he wants to talk about those circumstances, particularly, but merely to tell Billy that he has had a somewhat similar experience. ]
Those who wished not to know you, merely because you came from a foreign land, were fools. We had many such fools in Ethuveraz, where I am from.
I am sorry, that you are parted from them. You will see them again, though, will you not? When you return to America?
[private] @serenity
He switches the conversation setting to private - checks and double checks that he has done it correctly, since this technology is all so new to him - and de-selects the anonymity feature. If he is going to be asking Billy for help, he might as well start the process of unmasking himself. ]
You have my sympathy. I know your journey must have been difficult. I was sent away at that age, too, though I suspect the circumstances were very different.
[ To put it mildly. But he does not mention that because he wants to talk about those circumstances, particularly, but merely to tell Billy that he has had a somewhat similar experience. ]
Those who wished not to know you, merely because you came from a foreign land, were fools. We had many such fools in Ethuveraz, where I am from.
I am sorry, that you are parted from them. You will see them again, though, will you not? When you return to America?