Pre-Intro Shenanigans

[acivilservant]

[Somewhere on the edge of Camp is a lonely road to nowhere; the only feature besides corn is an old bus stop sign, half fallen into the ditch.

Remarkably, eventually a bus pulls up, door creaking open to let it's passenger off]

--Wait, seriously?

Comments

[ionic_bond]

Are you just going to stand there like an idiot, or can I get out and see where we are?

[acivilservant]

Geh!

[whirls around in surprise, backing up]

[acivilservant]

--Sync. What the hell-- where did you even come from?

[ionic_bond]

Are you actually serious? I've been sitting behind you this whole time.

[acivilservant]

That bus was completely empty, every minute I've been on it. Believe me, I checked.

[ionic_bond]

I kicked you in the back multiple times. You can't tell me you didn't feel that.

[acivilservant]

Wait, that was you? I definitely felt it, and it was definitely annoying -- but I thought it was just Camp messing with me one last time.

[ionic_bond]

What else would it be?

[acivilservant]

Like I said: just Camp messing with me.

--That's where we are, by the way, if you're so curious.

[ionic_bond]

And what's that supposed to mean to me? Camp what? There's not too many destinations like this on Auldrant to begin with.

[acivilservant]

--Yeah, you can ask somebody else what its actual name is. I guess the important part is that it's basically a prison.

A really, really weird prison. Like if Dist designed it -- Part bad, and part just embarrassing.

[ionic_bond]

A prison, huh. Doesn't look very threatening. So, are you saying we're on a different planet?

[acivilservant]

It can be, sometimes, but like I said -- sometimes it's just weird. And yeah, something like that, I guess.

[ionic_bond]

Why are you being deliberately vague? Give me a straight answer.

[acivilservant]

I would if I actually had one. That's the thing -- in all the time I was here, nobody I asked really had any good idea of where we are, or how, or anything.

It's a weird place where weird, unexplainable stuff happens, but you get used to it, okay? And I'd say if you don't like my answers, you can go see for yourself, but I don't think I'm gonna let you out of my sight that easily.

[ionic_bond]

Hah! Do you really think after our last encounter that there's even going to be a chance of you keeping up with me? Don't hold your breath.