%% market:: %% one of the weirdest things about writing a bunch of short stories that take place in wildly different parts of the world with storylines that take centuries to converge but do sometimes overlap and impact each other is seeing how strange it can be for two characteres to be contepmorary of each other. It's like those memes I see about how X person was alive during Abraham Lincoln's time and FDR's. A lot really does change in just a few years, especially when looked at through the scope of global history instead of just one country's.