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From: "Jussi Nikander" <jnikande@niksula.hut.fi>
To: "Thermopyle" <thermopyle@tds.net>
Cc: "Fan Fiction Mailing List" <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [FFML] [CotS] Burned

As I reached to touch his face, Jinto smiled at me reassuringly.
"Don't worry, Lafiel," he said. "It's just a bit of sunburn."

How did he know what the problem was?  It didn't seem that apparent from

the

way she was acting.  Jinto probably wouldn't assume that she'd be

confused

about what was going on.  There was a scene similar to this in the first
series, IIRC, where Lafiel had trouble adjusting to being on the planet.
Maybe I'm remembering his reaction wrong, but I don't think he'd be
expecting her confusion.  He probably didn't have enough time to see the

way

she was inspecting her reflection.

He knows since the servant told him that the princess is as red as a
well-done crab, he's got a bit of sunburn himself and Lafiel collapses.

Er, no.  I meant how did he know that she didn't know what had happened to
her.  It's obvious that she has a sunburn.

"Well, I tend to tan rather easily. Usually, when I was a kid, I
didn't get a sunburn more than once in a summer. And most

When I was a kid, I usually didn't...

I have tanned very easily ever since I was a kid.

Er, that was a correction, not a comment.  I had brown skin when I was a
kid; there was a pool in the back yard of the house I lived at from age five
to ten.  :)

Um.  From what little I know of such things, they would simply be very

pale

because the skin wouldn't pigment in reaction to sunlight.  Don't expect
freckles anywhere... Maybe their skin would be rather transparent.  That
would cause very bad burning and might damage more than just the skin,

if

they had too little color to protect the deeper parts of their body.

It's

an interesting idea; maybe somebody on the list knows more about this.

<brandishes a large trout> Now what did I say, before? ^_-

Actually it's impossible to get a tan if you spend your whole life
indoors. There's no UV-radiation.

Yes, I know.  I was talking about if they were exposed to the sun; just
because they never had before, doesn't mean they wouldn't tan in response.

Hm.  I haven't seen that far, but this should probably have been placed

in

the first series, when Lafiel and Jinto go for a long walk on whatever

that

planet's name was.  It feels misplaced here, because I have the

expectation

that it would have already been a problem before this point, so I would

like

to see this relocated, timeline-wise.

They travelled by night on Sufugnoff, and Lafiel had a sunhat.
Not much of a chance to get a sunburn.

Hm.  Some time was spent out during the day.  Don't remember how much,
though.  It was right when they arrived.


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