"Bounce," Edgar confirms. "Like, you take one step and if you're not careful you go flying twenty feet like you've got some kind of fuckin magic springs in your shoes. Something about gravity being different on Mars."
He illustrates with one hand on the tabletop, forming a tiny walking figure with two fingers and springing it through an unlikely series of arcs.
"So there's me and this pitiful little baby thoat, no idea where the fuck we are, and here's this wall of sand coming at us, so we found a cave to wait out the storm. Except already in the cave is this great ugly sucker monster that thinks it wants to eat us, and it's too late to run, so --" He shrugs, spreading his hands again. "Had to kill it, didn't I.
"Tars Tarkus -- he's a proper man from Mars, they call it Barsoom there -- his people found us the next day, and Tars helped get me back here. He said they call it an iljat, the sucker monster thing."
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He illustrates with one hand on the tabletop, forming a tiny walking figure with two fingers and springing it through an unlikely series of arcs.
"So there's me and this pitiful little baby thoat, no idea where the fuck we are, and here's this wall of sand coming at us, so we found a cave to wait out the storm. Except already in the cave is this great ugly sucker monster that thinks it wants to eat us, and it's too late to run, so --" He shrugs, spreading his hands again. "Had to kill it, didn't I.
"Tars Tarkus -- he's a proper man from Mars, they call it Barsoom there -- his people found us the next day, and Tars helped get me back here. He said they call it an iljat, the sucker monster thing."