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third round :: written (backdated to start of Tokyo!)

This is Earth, right? I've never been ~~there~~ here before.

[Yet it's somewhere she always thought she'd see.]

Are any of you from Earth?

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Sure, I'm from America. This place here is Japan...a really retro eighties Japan, but still.

Eighties?

[2480...?]

Yeah, you know, the 1980s? It's a decade.

[WOW THAT IS A LONG TIME AGO.]

20th century.

I'm from the 26th.

Oh, another one. I already talked to a guy who was from around then. Nice to know there's still a future for some places.

Not for you?

[It takes him a moment before he replies]

No. Some people think maybe one day the world will get back to normal, but it's not likely. Things are pretty fucked.

What happened?

I really don't think you want to know. [That, at least, isn't a lie]

Shouldn't have asked? I'm sorry.

[Goodness knows she can guess what happened to where she came from, even if she doesn't remember it, and it isn't exactly pleasant.]

It's okay. It's just not easy to talk about.

[He'd rather not give people nightmares for the rest of their lives]

Did other people survive?

Uh huh. There's not a lot of us any more, but we're still out there. In little scattered groups. [Last vestiges of humanity, clinging on, hoping for something, anything to change the tide]

[But is he alone now? That would be horrible, but she knows the feeling.]

Is anyone else here?

Sure, some of my group is here. I've got people. [Thank god. He doesn't think he could have dealt with this place without them being here]

Being alone is difficult. I'm glad you're not.

Thanks, so am I. [There's a pause. He should try to be polite, seen as she's not being a bitch towards him] I'm Ben.

I'm Lucy.

[A Spartan, so there's more, but she'll leave off the numbers and the rank. It's not needed here.

And of course she's not a bitch! She's a classy lady.]

Have you been here very long?

Only a couple weeks, I'm still getting used to it all.

I haven't been here long either. It isn't all good or bad. But it's different from what I know. Probably the same for everyone.

I don't think anyone here lives in a world with magical kidnapping castles.

Or they're holding out on us if they do.

[Alright, that gave her n excuse to voicelessly laugh.]

All I had were aliens.

Aliens, huh? [A few months ago he would have laughed at her, but when you watch a dead person chewing on your friend's face your mind opens a little more]

[Well... yeah, I mean, you watch your entire class/friends/battalion die, you get a new perspective on life, too.]

Aliens. All different kinds. They attacked us.

[Ben can sure understand that one. Okay so it was dead people and bandits, instead of aliens, but still. That seems to make him more prone to open up to her, lucky gal]

...I'm sorry to hear that.

We had dead people.

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