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[prodigal_tsun]

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[jstalovemachine]

I wouldn't know about medication, but as for rooms there may be space in the Love Hotel. Otherwise, your best bet is to ask around for cabin space.

[prodigal_tsun]

love hotel? what a dreadful name.

[jstalovemachine]

I didn't pick it. It's a bit of a misnomer anyways.

[prodigal_tsun]

it sounds like a euphemism for something more vulgar.

[jstalovemachine]

That's pretty much the gist of it, yeah. But it doesn't really matter here.

[prodigal_tsun]

if there's no call for that sort of thing here, that might well be the strangest thing about this place.

[jstalovemachine]

Hardly the strangest.

[prodigal_tsun]

i suppose it depends on one's frame of reference, does it not?

[jstalovemachine]

Mm, probably. After you've been here for awhile, your view on things here change a bit.

[prodigal_tsun]

that sounds like the voice of experience. have you been here long?

[jstalovemachine]

Mm, coming up on ten months soon. Not nearly as long as some, though.

[prodigal_tsun]

more than long enough to be imprisoned anywhere, i feel.

[jstalovemachine]

Well, it could be worse.

[prodigal_tsun]

of that i have no doubt.

may i ask your name?

[jstalovemachine]

Zima. And you?

[prodigal_tsun]

Belimai. A pleasure to meet you, if that is still the word for exchanging letters like this.

The letter I received when I arrived appointed me "interspecies liaison" for this place, though I am not entirely certain what that entails. Are you also...employed by the camp?