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[redheadcarrier]

So, who else is staying in their rooms until this is over?

This whole zombie thing is a load of crap.

Comments

[redheadcarrier]

What? No! I was a combat pilot

[speakveryclearly]

Really
Such As In A Proper Military Capacity
Despite My Conscription Here Ive Had The Privilege Of Acquaintance With Very Few Professional Soldiers

[redheadcarrier]

Paramilitary, I guess. Technically.

[speakveryclearly]

I See

[I Have No Idea What That Means]

[redheadcarrier]

But I am a professional.

[speakveryclearly]

Thats Comforting To Hear

[redheadcarrier]

These idiots don't have anything for me to pilot, though!

[speakveryclearly]

There Was An Incident Involving Bombing Some Time Ago
Maybe Your Opportunity Will Come Later

[redheadcarrier]

I just hate feeling useless.

[That's putting it mildly.]

[speakveryclearly]

There Are Plenty Of Opportunities For Training Here
You Dont Have To Be

[redheadcarrier]

I'm not useless! I just hate feeling useless!

[Which is practically all the time. Thanks, crippling trauma!]

What am I supposed to do? Fight their stupid war for them?

[speakveryclearly]

That Is The General Idea

[redheadcarrier]

But I don't even care about these people!

[There's a lag time of a minute or two before Asuka adds in another response. Apparently, she's thinking.]

I guess I owe them for pulling me out of that hell-hole. Kind of.

[speakveryclearly]

They Do Pay You
And Also Your Rent

[redheadcarrier]

better than being out in the cold, I guess.

[speakveryclearly]

A Genuine Risk Given The Paucity Of Good Weather Here

[redheadcarrier]

I'm surprised there aren't more depressed people - who the hell can live with nothing but rain and clouds?

[speakveryclearly]

Not Every Species Thrives In The Same Climate

[redheadcarrier]

Well, I'm human and we like sunshine.

[speakveryclearly]

I Assumed As Much
Maybe It Will Be Better In Summer
I Only Arrived Here In Your Month Of October

[redheadcarrier]

Where I'm from, we didn't really have a winter.

[speakveryclearly]

Really
What Did You Have Instead

[redheadcarrier]

It was just hot all the time. Eternal summer or something.

[speakveryclearly]

Had Desertification Occurred

[redheadcarrier]

No. There was this giant disaster called Second Impact that happened a year or two before I was born. They say an asteroid impacted Antarctica and it caused massive tidal waves, climate change, changed the axial tilt of the planet... so the northern hemisphere got a lot warmer.

[Well, that's the official story.]