09-14-2017, 04:22 PM
Alfred didn't really care whether the people who lived here originally were wizards or not, unless they'd left behind something useful. If there were storerooms full of healing potions, or something of that nature, he might have been inclined to care. Stories did him no good in a practical, survivalist sense, whether they'd come from wizards or Muggles or talking beasts or space aliens.
Predictions of the end of the world or not, these were, at the end of the day, just stories. It wouldn't make a bit of difference as far as their lives were concerned, particularly since at present Alfred didn't really think they would ever have someone else to share them with.
"Well," he said, not wanting to be entirely dismissive of something Paul was clearly interested in but finding it hard to muster up much actual enthusiasm, "I don't really expect to be around in two-thousand." He wasn't even really sure he expected to be around in three years, if things continued as they had.
Predictions of the end of the world or not, these were, at the end of the day, just stories. It wouldn't make a bit of difference as far as their lives were concerned, particularly since at present Alfred didn't really think they would ever have someone else to share them with.
"Well," he said, not wanting to be entirely dismissive of something Paul was clearly interested in but finding it hard to muster up much actual enthusiasm, "I don't really expect to be around in two-thousand." He wasn't even really sure he expected to be around in three years, if things continued as they had.
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