"Your folk actually drink the spirits of Elektra City!? No...I think they're pulling your wing! I wouldn't drink such a draught, I can tell you that!" Canash wonders at Tash's first statement: "What kind of entertainers are these that torture people, children even, with such strong spirits? I know Men have an odd sense of what is entertaining, and they will even kill each other for sport; maybe Men where you come from aren't so different than the ones I'm used to?"Firebird766 wrote:"Elektra Cit- wait." Tash's face blooms with a mix of recognition and shock. "Electricity, really? You can do stuff with that? Back home you see it all the time with travelling entertainers, making frog legs jump and the like, but that's all! When I was a kid, I was called up to the stage once and they made my hair go flying everywhere, but there wasn't anything with light or burning or cooking people."Canash looks up at Tash: "No!! Don't touch!! If I understood him correctly earlier, this whole thing is just oozing with spirits of Elektra City -- dangerous stuff that! Back home, they use it in some places to make soft, gentle light, and I guess that's safe enough; but it can also burn and kill! I saw the body of some Man snuffed with the stuff -- after he stopped twitching about, he just lay there all contorted. And steaming. And there were these blistering welts all over his body. And he smelled ... I don't know. Cooked? Yurk. I don't plan on touching it, anyway!"
She pauses for a moment, thinking back. "They also sell these cure-all tonics, come to think of it. "Fortified with genuine electricity," they say. Pretty sure it's just soda water with a little chicha in for flavor, though."
Canash thinks for a while about this chicha drink. "Hmm. I wonder: is this chicha tonic like our emarcran? It is tangy and dances on the tongue. If I drink a lot it, it will make me giddy. Does your chicha make you giddy as well? It is kind of funny: when Men drink emarcran, it makes them kind of stupid and they stumble around in a stupor. Then they pass out and sleep for the rest of the day. For us, the giddiness is passing and anyway, it would require a lot of the stuff to make us feel that way. A little bit makes us feel contented and relaxed."