I don’t get what the point of the comic is. Am I supposed to know something before reading it?
Pretty sure they joke is just that elves live much longer than humans so their perception of ‘soon’ could be much longer than a human’s
Yes. In the story the elf here, Frieren, is travelling on foot with humans across the continent they live on. Frieren often wants to stop at towns they come across to rest, or study something local, or wait for favorable conditions, for anywhere from a year to multiple decades. The humans with her constantly have to remind her that a decade is like a 7th or 8th of their lifetime, even if it’s only a few moments for her comparatively.
Occasionally, at my bus stop, there will be a mum with her toddler daughter and I don’t know, if it’s just boredom, but every minute or so, she’ll ask her mum “When comes bus?” and then mum responds “Should be coming soon.”.
One time, hell was freezing over at -10°C. The toddler, despite full winter gear, was freezing.
And of course, the bus wasn’t going to come. But unfortunately, humanity hasn’t yet developed the technology to remotely notify people, so we didn’t know.We waited there for 15 minutes, with the toddler continuously asking “When comes bus?”. And then the sheer betrayal, when bus did not come soon. She had to walk another 20 minutes with her mum to where the bus was supposed to go…
![Waiting for the bus [Shen]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a769dbf-c3c2-40b3-a361-32a785b7c56a.jpeg){kind=link}