1) "Who knows, that's ancient history, are you one of those history people? Dangerous, be careful around there, the ground's as likely to drop out under you as anything else. Not much to scavenge! Mostly empty husks of buildings, sometimes we take stone and reuse it in our buildings." Anything along those lines! It's not recent, those ruins, and no one appears to be actively interested unless they're a creative mind, in which they'll spin all sorts of silly possibilities with Cross.
2) Sure! They'll be happy to talk him to death, as long as they don't need silence for some purpose related to what they're researching!
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1) "Who knows, that's ancient history, are you one of those history people? Dangerous, be careful around there, the ground's as likely to drop out under you as anything else. Not much to scavenge! Mostly empty husks of buildings, sometimes we take stone and reuse it in our buildings." Anything along those lines! It's not recent, those ruins, and no one appears to be actively interested unless they're a creative mind, in which they'll spin all sorts of silly possibilities with Cross.
2) Sure! They'll be happy to talk him to death, as long as they don't need silence for some purpose related to what they're researching!