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01 ☣ voice

Bullshit is showing up here with everything on me but my comic books. All those Savage Starlight issues, gone. Just like that. Fuck you too, Initiative.

[A pause. Ellie's never really addressed a group of people. Technology is crazy. Okay, there was a point to this whole thing.]

... anyway, guess I just wanted to say thanks to the people that helped me out when I got here. I found who I was looking for, so. Didn't wanna leave anyone with a cliffhanger.

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Heh, only a bit. I do not spend all my time there.

That's good. Too much research can drive you nuts.

Ah . . . can it?

Or turn you into a monkey.

[she sounds so confused]

A what?

Uhh--it was a joke. But monkeys are... um. Animals that are pretty smart.

Monkeys . . . I see. One moment?

[Ellie will hear some soft cursing as Tempest tries to figure out how to look things up on the damned tablet. A few moments pass before she makes a soft "oh" noise]

Oh . . . they are cute . . .

Do you not have them, where you're from?

Not to my knowledge? They certainly do not live in my country, but perhaps across the oceans, down south . . .

But I have never been there, so I could not say for sure.

I only knew about them because of some book I read.

[And then she saw some real ones, but they weren't exactly things you wanted to pet.]

Ohh? [and back to books they go] Do you like to read, then?

Yeah. All the time, when I can.

I used to do the same, when I was younger.

You don't read for fun anymore?

Well, I traveled a lot. And one must travel light in my . . . profession.

And now? Or does the researching count as fun?

Researching counts, a little. It depends on how frustrated this world makes me. [she sounds like she's joking, but it's not a joke at all. One day you'll see Tempest ragequit a book]

Gets that annoying, huh?

At times . . .

How long have you been here?

Two months.

Oh, so you came right before I did.

I did? Well then.

It always feels like everyone's been here way longer.

Yes . . . I understand that feeling.

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