Umbrellas
“We take a bus to go to the ice rink,” Atlanta informs me as we stand beneath a canopied platform, which also shades over rows of simplistic metallic seats.
Not wanting to reveal my total ignorance of nearly everything here, including what she has just said, I only incline my head. Then, casually as I can, I proceed to scrutinise the “umbrella” – the black, collapsible, portable, vaguely conical item which she used to shelter the two of us from the sunlight while we were walking here, which she now keeps under her arm in its folded-small state. This item would be rather useful for me back home. Using it would gain me even more mockery, however.
This item is also one piece of evidence that Midgardians might have invented an icy environment, an icy dessert, and a way to enjoy both, all by themselves. And if they could invent an item just for convenience like this simple but rather fiddly mechanism, or any of the aforementioned two that are for mere entertainment….
`What would they have invented if they really put their minds to it? What about items for warfare? Espionage? Training?`
The implications are disturbing, to say the least.