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[angryaffliction]

[The PDA clicks on when Alex rolls over onto it. For a while there's just darkness and a scraping noise as the virus gets up. Slowly. Unsteadily. The PDA is peeking over the side of his breast pocket, his lower torso and legs visible as he sits up. You can see the flap of his pocket occasionally getting in the way of the lens as he moves to look

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[alma_karma]

[That, sir? Is impressive.]

Whoa...

[angryaffliction]

[Is someone there? He doesn't realize the device recorded his rooftop escapades. Just be glad it didn't catch him eating.]

...What?

[alma_karma]

... Did you just run up a building?

[angryaffliction]

...

[Wait you saw that? Shit! He's totally checking the PDA and he sees it recorded all that. There's a muttered curse. But no point in denying it.]

....Yeah.

[alma_karma]

[Yeah, not something you really want to share with the general public. Or is it.]

That's so cool!

[angryaffliction]

[No not rea- oh god what is that? You're supposed to be all 'Oh sweet jesus it's that guy who eats people and punches helicopters'! Alex does not comprehend this.

Here, have him staring in disbelief at the PDA.]

What do you want?

[alma_karma]

[The bitty is excellent for confusing people in just this way~]

Oh! You're new, huh? I'm Alma, and this is Nesreca!

[angryaffliction]

[Alex doesn't understand this. He can barely comprehend any kind of compassion. Optimism and cheerfulness? This is alien territory and the virus no comprende.]

...You seem happy to be here.

[alma_karma]

[He rubs at the back of his neck awkwardly, but his smile remains.]

... I guess so. Nothing bad's happened in a while.

[angryaffliction]

[You see this? This is Alex memorizing your face so he knows never to eat you in case of contracting whatever mental defect makes a person not mind being kidnapped and held in a decrepit city. That or Alma has a really bad case of Stockholms Syndrome.]

...How do I find Libitina?

[alma_karma]

[Or maybe he just happens to come from a place that makes living in a decrepit city seem not so bad.]

I don't know. Normally we don't see her unless she talks to us.

[angryaffliction]

[Alex doesn't really consider that. Optimism seems more like a defect than a way of coping. Still, Alma doesn't seem too bad. He's never actually talked to a real child before though so he doesn't know what's normal.]

Hmph. Convenient. She has to be holed up somewhere.

How long have you been kept here?

[alma_karma]

Um... [He pauses, looking thoughtful for a few moments.]

Since November, I think. That's... ten months?

[angryaffliction]

Why have you stayed in this place so long? Why not go to another city?

[alma_karma]

Because if we go to Credinta and get caught, they try to arrest us.

[angryaffliction]

Go around. Or the other way.