Canon is "The Giver" and mun is terrified to try this...

[therecouldbelove]

I don't think I understand what you mean about meeting new people. Do you mean the newchildren? I know all about them from Father and I don't understand why you wish for me to meet with them.

Not newchildren?

Oh.

I apologize for my rudeness.

...

But then...what do you mean?

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[turtlewalks]

It's likely that they mean that there are people here from different places.

[therecouldbelove]

[Jonas isn't used to seeing people he doesn't know. He stares for a little while, then blinks and snaps out of it.]

I apologize for my staring!

What do you mean, "different places?" Other Communities? Elsewhere?

[turtlewalks]

[She looks unnerved by the attention, but shrugs it off.]

All sorts of places. Different states, different countries... My mun even said different worlds.

[therecouldbelove]

What's a country?

[turtlewalks]

You don't know what a country is?

[therecouldbelove]

No.

Was that a rude question?

[turtlewalks]

No. It's just...everybody knows what a country is! Where are you from?

[therecouldbelove]

The Community.

[turtlewalks]

Does it have some kind of name?

[belovedmemory]

Have you never met anyone new before?

That's odd.

[therecouldbelove]

Sometimes my school group visits a school in another community.

[belovedmemory]

Your mun probably means something like that. Except there are many new communities that you've never seen. All filled with people.

[therecouldbelove]

Do you think...that is, do you think it's possible that those communities have...

[He's almost embarrassed to say it.]

...colors?

[belovedmemory]

[ She's obviously confused. ]

What do you mean?

[ How can there exist a place without color? Is everyone one big blob? ]

[therecouldbelove]

Oh, you don't know colors?

I apologize for my rudeness.

[belovedmemory]

Of course I know colors.

I just don't understand why you don't think there are always colors.

[ofdrumsthesound]

. . . I almost feel sorry for you.

[therecouldbelove]

Sorry for me, sir?

[ofdrumsthesound]

You're too brainwashed to know that there's any other way to be.

[therecouldbelove]

What does "brainwashed" mean?

[ofdrumsthesound]

It means that you believe all kinds of lies because you've been told them over and over and punished if you don't believe.

Although in your case, even the ones brainwashing you believed the lies. Neat trick, that.

[therecouldbelove]

But no one lies in the Community.

[ofdrumsthesound]

And yet everything you know is wrong.

[therecouldbelove]

My instructors have gone through all the required training.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Yet another bad sign--they shouldn't need training, just knowledge.