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[vaccination]

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.

Comments

[vaccination]

I meant tan like get darker skin. From being out in the sun.

[cesar]

Is darker skin so prized in your time?

[vaccination]

Used to be, I guess. People just get sunburns now from working outside.

[cesar]

Pale skin is the privilege of the wealthy in Rome. Commoners work in the sun.

[vaccination]

Now you're in a land where everyone can be pale as fuck.

[cesar]

Stop cussing. [ Not letting that go. ]

Now dark skin is the privilege of the wealthy then.

[vaccination]

Or else what?

If even that. I don't think all the money in this hole will buy you the sun.

[cesar]

[ OR HE WASHES YOUR MOUTH WITH SOAP. But he doesn't dignify that with a reply. ]

You can swim across to United Earth territory.

[vaccination]

I don't know about you, but I can't swim that far.

[Or, you know, at all.]

[cesar]

Let us build boats then.

[vaccination]

And they definitely wouldn't try to sink us or anything.

I'll take the rain, thanks.

[cesar]

The rain and the poison and the isolation?

[vaccination]

It's not that bad. Suck it up.

[cesar]

[ Cesare doesn't know how to respond to a girl telling him to suck it up, so this is just silence.

A really

long

silence.

Until he can try to salvage his pride. ]

What do you know of boats?

[vaccination]

[Not much.]

Did they even have boats in your time?

[cesar]

Not everyone can swim.

[vaccination]

Can you?

[cesar]

I am better at crafting boats.

[vaccination]

Literally? Is that what you did before?

[cesar]

Perhaps. I do prefer horses.

[vaccination]

Yeah. I haven't seen any here, though.

[cesar]

They have all died.

[vaccination]

[Like everything else.]

That really sucks.

[cesar]

Have you ever seen one?

[vaccination]

At home, yeah. I've seen some. Rode some, too.