third. backdated to 4/july.

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[Connor has been perched in his window for some time, carefully observing all these noisy explosions down in the city. He has no idea what's going on, but nobody seems to be panicking, so...

Eventually, he opens up his journal to dictate.]

What is the purpose of these explosions? Does anyone know? Is this normal?

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[indirectcause]

[He can't really say he's fine, it's a lie, so instead he exhales]

Just still coming down from a lot of bad shit at home, is all.

[Yay that one works, take that, stupid loss]

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Oh... in that case I am sorry to have brought up any unpleasant memories. It was not my intention.

[indirectcause]

Naw, it's fine. They're already pretty fresh and there anyway, it wasn't anything you did.

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How long has it been since you have been home?

[indirectcause]

Just over a week.

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[Ah.]

For me, at least, it has gotten easier with time. Though now more things trouble me.

[indirectcause]

Yeah? I guess you'd come across things you haven't got in your own time a lot, that must cause some confusion.

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Yes. The state of the future also worries me, from what I have seen and heard of it here.

[indirectcause]

The world gets a whole lot more complicated, that's for sure. Even before it all went to hell.

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[uhhhHHHHhh that's the first time he's heard of it being that bad, he meant something entirely different.]

You... what do you mean?

[indirectcause]

Where I come from...uh when I come from, the world's...

Well, it's pretty fucked right now. I'm pretty sure we're facing the end of it.

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Of the world? How are you so certain?

[indirectcause]

Well, I don't know how the rest of the world is fairing, but where I live the dead reanimate. There's... well there's a lot of them and less and less of the living every day.

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[wh.....] What do you mean, 'reanimate'? They are ghosts?

[indirectcause]

No, they're still solid bodies. They just aren't the people they were any more. Just bodies that want to eat and do nothing more.

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[?!?!?!!?] You are sure they are not just alive...?

[indirectcause]

Given most of them are rotting and missing vital organs? Yeah. Pretty sure.

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[oh my god what]

How is that... possible?

[indirectcause]

Hell if I know. It just started happening one day.

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[That is... pretty horrifying. What must people have done in the future to upset the balance of things that badly...]

I do not think such a thing happens here...

[indirectcause]

Here in Paradisa? Nah, I've heard they haven't shown up here. [The 'yet' is unspoken, but hangs there ominously all the same]

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Then... you must make the best of what this world offers you.

[indirectcause]

I guess I haven;t got much choice but to do that.

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[That's actually... pretty true. It's all anyone can do.]

I wish you luck, then.

[indirectcause]

Thanks, man. I appreciate it. You too...in uh, whatever it is you're facing. [In the past]