[He doesn't get the green joke. Just a few hundred years out of
date. All the jokes now talk are about Martian dust in the blood.
His face falls a little, at the year. He'd been hoping, when Frank
didn't make weird mention of if, that being from Mars was a normal thing,
where he was from. That maybe he was from the same year that he and Amos
and Naomi were from. The same system. But no. Seemed almost everyone on
this station was from elsewhere. Or else-when.]
Right. Shit, that ain't ever gonna stop throwin' me for a loop. [He
swirled his drink around in his glass before taking a sip. Slower, this
time.] That's over three hundred years back. Earth didn't even have
space stations, yet, right? At least not proper ones.
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[He doesn't get the green joke. Just a few hundred years out of date. All the jokes now talk are about Martian dust in the blood.
His face falls a little, at the year. He'd been hoping, when Frank didn't make weird mention of if, that being from Mars was a normal thing, where he was from. That maybe he was from the same year that he and Amos and Naomi were from. The same system. But no. Seemed almost everyone on this station was from elsewhere. Or else-when.]
Right. Shit, that ain't ever gonna stop throwin' me for a loop. [He swirled his drink around in his glass before taking a sip. Slower, this time.] That's over three hundred years back. Earth didn't even have space stations, yet, right? At least not proper ones.