"Yes, I know. Pitfalls of such a widely differing context. Hmm, give me a moment."
She has all these memories of what it's like to be from a world more or less resembling Bryce's. Surely she can figure out how to use them to understand the differences in reverse.
"The first thing's the accent, of course," she says absently, still thinking. "I can talk Capitol at you for a while to give you a sample, if you have a good ear for those. And then District Three for good measure. Apart from that..."
Sherlock taps her fingertips together thoughtfully.
"People from the Districts are going to look malnourished by your standards. The style of dress will seem more primitive in some respects, more advanced in others, because by my estimate we're from at least 2100 AD but District people don't have access to all the resources that implies. So clothing manufactured better than yours, but mended and patched together more haphazardly for longer. The Capitol, on the other hand—they're all rich. Never missed a meal in their lives. Cosmetic body alteration is very fashionable there. They dye their skin or hair casually, sometimes to match a particular outfit or the theme of a party, and have minor surgeries not much less casually than that—those can be very subtle, though, so they won't always make a good marker."
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She has all these memories of what it's like to be from a world more or less resembling Bryce's. Surely she can figure out how to use them to understand the differences in reverse.
"The first thing's the accent, of course," she says absently, still thinking. "I can talk Capitol at you for a while to give you a sample, if you have a good ear for those. And then District Three for good measure. Apart from that..."
Sherlock taps her fingertips together thoughtfully.
"People from the Districts are going to look malnourished by your standards. The style of dress will seem more primitive in some respects, more advanced in others, because by my estimate we're from at least 2100 AD but District people don't have access to all the resources that implies. So clothing manufactured better than yours, but mended and patched together more haphazardly for longer. The Capitol, on the other hand—they're all rich. Never missed a meal in their lives. Cosmetic body alteration is very fashionable there. They dye their skin or hair casually, sometimes to match a particular outfit or the theme of a party, and have minor surgeries not much less casually than that—those can be very subtle, though, so they won't always make a good marker."