Day 56: Bus 3

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As the day came to a close, Claude's conversation with Tear weighed heavily on his mind. All the implications hadn't quite sunk in yet, but it unsettled him that she'd been able to feel and experience his time in the basement in such a strong way. Was there some kind of significance behind the fact she'd lived the moment he ran toward Guy in a

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Peter was relieved that she had accepted the other suggestion for a name without a fight, though there was a chance she'd picked up on the fact that his memories of Brooklyn weren't good ones. Well, they were, but the kid had disappeared without a trace and that was enough to make any thought of him turn into a downer. He hardly meant to bring the mood so low when this girl was being friendly, though, and so he quickly moved to a new subject along with her.

It sounded like she was pretty new to things, which had been his guess from the start. He wasn't sure what she was getting at with the code name thing, except that he had run into some people with odd names here, so maybe it was just a reference to that. "Oh, the uniforms were worse before," he said once she'd finished. "We had to wear a gray shirt and sweatpants day in and day out. The button-up shirt is way better." As far as he was concerned, anyway. A teenage girl probably saw the two uniforms as equally bad, but at least he'd tried to make her see the bright side.

"You should definitely be careful at night, though. Try to get yourself a weapon as soon as you can. The recreational field has a shed that you can break into that has baseball bats in it. Do you know where the field is?" He wasn't sure of how new she was or how much she had seen, so he was going to have to take this slow.