Bright lights and conveniences and wanting for nothing and televisions and sports cars and capped teeth and chocolate and the list went on… It had taken her the better part of a decade to even start getting used to it, and everything moved so fast that any time she thought she was getting a grasp on it, there was something new, something she was supposed to know or understand.
Am I gonna have to break out that one ICP quote I did again?
She’d accepted without complaint when her adoptive parents told her to start writing her name in the more American ‘Hannah’.
I suppose it might help avoid some racists, and also make it easier to tell people how to write her name.
She’d agreed and signed the papers when they took the last name her parents had given her and replaced it with their own.
That said, I feel like things like this should be entirely the child’s choice, if they’re old enough to make a choice.
Small things, so minor, compared to what she had seen and done. It didn’t bear complaining about.
Yeah, fair.
Everyone praised her for how dutiful she was in school and her training. She never gave up, never quit. Why should she? This was nothing compared to those hours she spent in that forest.
Those hours when each step or lack of one could lead to her death, or that of another.
So hard to believe that the events from her dream had occurred just twenty six years ago.
Hm, so that puts a bit of a time frame on things. The events of the dreams would’ve happened in 1985, then, assuming present day is 2011. The war had lasted for seven years… which identifies it on the list of wars involving Turkey as the Kurdish conflict (known on the list as the Turkey-PKK Conflict), which started in 1978 and is still ongoing.
I guess Wildbow really didn’t check if there were pine trees in Kurdistan, just in Turkey. Fair enough.
Or, for a more fun explanation: There was a parahuman in Kurdistan whose power was causing pine trees to grow randomly within a large radius.
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