A New World: Experimenting With History

[aldersprig]

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Kael cleared her throat.

“Assume for a moment that I am who I am pretending to be.”

They both turned their attention back to her.  It was Caron who spoke first.

“Okay.  So.” He hemmed uncertainly. “You want us to pretend that you’re Kaelin

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Comments

[sauergeek]

The natives just slipping away or joining communities sounds deeply suspicious. Usually people are not so sanguine about giving up their homes. It's possible there were mass deportations, or large-scale die-offs from diseases the newcomers brought, or any of the other problems that colonizers bring to a new population. Quiet integration is hard to believe.

Kael's concept of types and trustworthiness of information sources is remarkably advanced for her being a member of an uncivilized tribe. But they seem to be going along with it without realizing that they've already accepted it.

I see that we may end up aiming somewhere near Lies My Teacher Told Me, if not all the way to A People's History of the United States.

Now to see what Kael finds out, and her potential apprentices, too.

XCI

91? Or should I be reading that some other way?

[aldersprig]

>XCI
Like CSI, NCIS, etc. :-)

Kael is… well. *grins* They will figure it out, but right now she is reading her as an adult/expert and not figuring out the rest.