"It tricks your head, when you're new. You see people that look mostly like what you know -- and they usually do, because you're always in the same geography, generally -- and you think, well, I know how to handle this lot, don't I? And then it turns out you're all off. I met a fellow once who looked just like my old maths teacher, it turned out he'd got lizard legs surgically attached to his knees. Everyone did in that world -- when they were fifteen, that was the rule. Did I lie about my age there!"
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"It tricks your head, when you're new. You see people that look mostly like what you know -- and they usually do, because you're always in the same geography, generally -- and you think, well, I know how to handle this lot, don't I? And then it turns out you're all off. I met a fellow once who looked just like my old maths teacher, it turned out he'd got lizard legs surgically attached to his knees. Everyone did in that world -- when they were fifteen, that was the rule. Did I lie about my age there!"