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

[reengineered]

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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[indirectcause]

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]

[reengineered]

[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.

[indirectcause]

[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.

[reengineered]

[Lucky? Nothing lucky about this gal, but... friendship is a thing.]

Dead people attacking you? How?

[indirectcause]

They just...came back. Not properly. They don't talk or seem to have anything in them of the person they used to be. You die, and you just...turn. Then all they do is eat the living.

[A soft exhale]

There's less and less of the living every day.