[IC] New Crobuzon & the World Beyond

[GM Marvel]

Betimi shrugs, and nods, while weeping.

"No, they stopped me", gesturing at Selina. "I was trying to conserve rations and they attacked us. In my home, that is how one survives, you kill to eat. You eat, you survive. You don't eat, something kills you. Never had I seen kobolds before that day, but I have been fed dwarf."

"Many races have different culinary habits," Simon replies.  "But among humans, it's a serious taboo to cannibalize sentient creatures.  As for Dwarves, I've never met one before I met your friend Kee.  I'm also not aware of Kobolds or whatever it is you say you are.  You speak as if Dwarves are known on many worlds.  It's strange they are absent from mine."

"Sorry," the man says to the new arrival.  "My name is Simon," says a man with glasses and black spiky hair.  "I'm a scientist who specializes in different creatures - mundane and magical - who inhabit my world.  If you wouldn't mind, I would like to ask you some questions later... when we rest."  He wears a long red trench coat and dark oval spectacles.