Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Three

At night they stay outside the shelter and watch TV inside the shelter. "This is what I want you to see." When the news started to play again, Lone Wake said, "An old colleague of mine. Now doing a study in your country. Watch it." That was a press conference. "I'm afraid at the moment I can't comment on the name 'Rain God', a case of what we call a 'primary supracausal climate phenomenon.'" "Can you tell us what that means?" "Overall I'm not particularly sure. Let's be blunt. If we find something we don't understand, we like to call it names you can't understand, or you can't pronounce at all. I mean, if we So let you call him 'Rain God' casually, then it shows that you know something we don't, and I'm afraid we can't accept this.

"That won't work, first we have to give the thing a name to show it's ours, not yours, and then we're going to find some way to prove that it's not what you say it is, it's what we say it is. "If it turns out you're right, you're still wrong because we'll simply call him... er, 'hypertypical...' instead of atypical or supernatural, because you now think you know what that means, That won't work, it has to be 'Supertypical Fall Buff Inducer'. We might want to stuff a 'class' prefix somewhere in there to include ourselves. 'Rain God'! Ha, I've never heard such absurdity in my life But admittedly, you'll never see me on vacation with him. Thanks, that's all. Plus I'll say 'Hi!' to the Lone Wake if he's watching TV."