Not discovered? ( She goes silent - or, almost - from shock. ) Captain Cook landed the Endeavour in 1770. The first fleet came in 1788. ( Slowly said, as if there's just some misunderstanding. ) When are you from?
( This is amazing, but also far, far beyond strange. )
Um. ( That's a good start, Ellie. ) It's big. I think it's the only continent that's just one country? Point is, it's big. Vast, but most of it's desert. The Great Sandy Desert, because I guess we like to be straightforward about things.
( She takes a moment. ) It's kind of beautiful. Beautiful and really dangerous. If you wander into the bush, just go for a bit of a jaunt and don't know what you're doing, you can get lost and wind up dying. So much of the landscape is extreme and dramatic.
I never really went to any of our major cities, the state capitals and that, so I can't tell you what those are like. We've got our share of iconic buildings and bridges, but I'm a rural. Sheep and cattle, that's what we had around Wirrawee. My mate Homer has all these dreams about raising a herd of Polish China pigs, but I don't know what his dad would say about that. ( It's weird to talk about Mr. Yannos so casually, when she hasn't seen him in so long. )
We got invaded a while ago, now. Almost a year, I think. They're changing everything, mucking up the land. ( She's more than a little bit bitter. ) There was so much space and beauty, before, and they probably don't even observe the irrigation regulations. And fire is a massive risk in Australia, it's hot and dry, and these idiots just toss cigarette butts around like it's nothing.
( Her knuckles are white, aggravation flaring. She'd never have started an intentional bushfire before the war, but that was the sort of thing she'd been pushed to, acting against all the things she was raised with. ) The invaders threw away our rulebook.
( Much quieter, that. It takes a moment for her to come around to what Ezio had actually been saying. ) Chocolate is good, I guess.
( Now she feels a little awkward. But mostly frustrated. )
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( This is amazing, but also far, far beyond strange. )
Um. ( That's a good start, Ellie. ) It's big. I think it's the only continent that's just one country? Point is, it's big. Vast, but most of it's desert. The Great Sandy Desert, because I guess we like to be straightforward about things.
( She takes a moment. ) It's kind of beautiful. Beautiful and really dangerous. If you wander into the bush, just go for a bit of a jaunt and don't know what you're doing, you can get lost and wind up dying. So much of the landscape is extreme and dramatic.
I never really went to any of our major cities, the state capitals and that, so I can't tell you what those are like. We've got our share of iconic buildings and bridges, but I'm a rural. Sheep and cattle, that's what we had around Wirrawee. My mate Homer has all these dreams about raising a herd of Polish China pigs, but I don't know what his dad would say about that. ( It's weird to talk about Mr. Yannos so casually, when she hasn't seen him in so long. )
We got invaded a while ago, now. Almost a year, I think. They're changing everything, mucking up the land. ( She's more than a little bit bitter. ) There was so much space and beauty, before, and they probably don't even observe the irrigation regulations. And fire is a massive risk in Australia, it's hot and dry, and these idiots just toss cigarette butts around like it's nothing.
( Her knuckles are white, aggravation flaring. She'd never have started an intentional bushfire before the war, but that was the sort of thing she'd been pushed to, acting against all the things she was raised with. ) The invaders threw away our rulebook.
( Much quieter, that. It takes a moment for her to come around to what Ezio had actually been saying. ) Chocolate is good, I guess.
( Now she feels a little awkward. But mostly frustrated. )