Well done, you've just brought someone from the equivalent of the Dark Ages into the Enlightenment.
"Planets orbit stars?" he blinks, and Zelda gives a little shriek of excitement. (He winces fractionally.)
[That could work! The sun is a star like the ones we see in the sky, and we go around it, not it around us, and there are countless other worlds around the other stars, and...]
Sheik is only half-listening - instead, he's staring out the windows with some fascination. They're up in the sky, amongst the stars? And Hyrule is merely one small land on one planet around one star... It's faintly mindboggling, and he's never felt so insignificant. Which takes some doing, consider he's spent lives simply being the pawn of the Royal Family.
Gazing out the window (and wincing a little at the sheer brightness), he gestures at the bright display and asks softly, "What is that, then?"
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"Planets orbit stars?" he blinks, and Zelda gives a little shriek of excitement. (He winces fractionally.)
[That could work! The sun is a star like the ones we see in the sky, and we go around it, not it around us, and there are countless other worlds around the other stars, and...]
Sheik is only half-listening - instead, he's staring out the windows with some fascination. They're up in the sky, amongst the stars? And Hyrule is merely one small land on one planet around one star... It's faintly mindboggling, and he's never felt so insignificant. Which takes some doing, consider he's spent lives simply being the pawn of the Royal Family.
Gazing out the window (and wincing a little at the sheer brightness), he gestures at the bright display and asks softly, "What is that, then?"
((OOC: Sorry about the double-post.))