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âSo walk me through everything I missed. It seems like it was a lot.â
âWhat, Everything? Itâs 85 bloody years, thereâs a lot to cover. And me without a degree in history.â
âAlright then, summarize. I can research whatever you mention that seems particularly interesting.â
I shifted to better watch Corv as he spoke, listening through ears that still felt chilly from 85 years frozen. Corv, one of my rescuers, shifted in his own spot, his diminutive form finding a comfortable seat. He glanced at me before starting in to the history.
âLetâs see, you went under in the 2020s you said, right? So you at least have an idea that climate change was getting bad. That was most of the 30â˛s and 40â˛s, handling that in various ways. Mostly bad ways. Lotta border skirmishes, plenty of fighting and arguing about bits of this and that. Big cold war between Canada and China about shipping lanes that opened up in the Artic, which was a miserable bloody time.â this at least all made sense, and I was nodding along.
âin the 50s things came to a bit of a head. Most of the ice that was going to melt melted, and the weather patterns were stabilizing. the countries and people left were figuring out how to handle the Sahara being able to grow plants and the American Midwest becoming a desert. We got some peace makers out of South America, and youâll probably find some interestinâ stuff about indonesia and how its government in exile set an example for island nations and how to handle the shift in tides. Always found some of that stuff fascinating, you can look up Melati Hon and her speeches on the new world, great stuff.â Corv seemed excited about that part, really animated and I could see his eyes gleaming. Really might be something worth reading, and seeing what I thought afterwards. He reluctantly plowed on. âthe 60s people kinda lost their mind, great art from the period but a lot of folks were recovering from being kids during the greatest ecological disaster. The 70s thereâs big move of standardizing everything, making sure that plugs fit all over the world and all the measuring equipment can measure the same. Parts of America still insist on using standard but thatâs more a local custom then a nation-wide standard at this point. the 80â˛s had a lot of discussion about the moon base, I think there was a big scare around a country grabbing it for themselves and a space war or something erupting over that, it was agreed to be a joint venture with every nation able to send people up, averted a lot of problems. The 90s are close enough I can remember âem, and thereâs a ton you could focus on but overall itâs all about how to handle us living with these new batteries weâve got, the Phazolyte batteries.â This wasnât exactly what I wanted to focus on, but Corv seemed to think it was important so I nodded and tossed in what I knew. âTheyâre batteries that mix with water to charge right?â
He coughed, shaking his head. âYeah, I guess thatâd be the second grader explanation. They mix phazolyte with water, and phazolyte causes water to be willing to compress as much as you push it, something it doesnât want to do at all normally. Sâwhy jumping off a bridge into water is like hitting concrete, all the force rebounds back into your body. With Phazolyte we get to store as much energy as we can compress into the water, then you just remove the Phazolyte and the water uncompresses, pushes against something, makes the electricity. And the Phazolyte, once removed, is good to use again, doesnât lose anything in the process. Itâs dead useful, and the last 15 years has been plugging that into everything and getting the supply chain worked out.â Corv coughed again, and glanced around. âThat should cover the basics. Sorry we donât have flying cars or nothing like that, I know you folks were keen on that.â
I stared at Corv for a long while. âCorv, thatâs great. Iâm glad you covered all the uh. The battery stuff. But.â I hesitated, glancing from him to the window to the chair he was sitting in. âYou uh. Skipped the part about you.â Corv shifted in his seat again, glancing away from me. âWell it really isnât all that important, itâs just part of the world really. Iâm a British citizen, we still say god save the queen, we keep playing football-â âThat seems like itâd be a bit hard for you to play.â I interrupt, glancing at how small Corv was. âI mean, Corv, you didnât mention a damn thing about when birds started talking.â Corv looked what I thought was askance. âWell you did ask me to summarize.â He reminded me as his beak preened his feathers. âIf I summarize I gotta skip the things that are less important. Thatâs how summarizing history goes.â
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