Schreber has a lot of trouble letting go of his paperwork but even he will admit he needs help. The more he does for the city the more it seems like needs to be done and the bureaucracy is starting to grow. It’s hard keeping so much of the city’s trade operations invisible from the people who think they know what’s going on. The way Schreber and
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In the past couple of months, she's been around the home more as well, her excursions to the Nexus few and far between.
This particular afternoon, she arrives home a little later than usual, having made a detour at the Nexus Clinics to visit an ill friend. When she finds Daniel and Markus in the kitchen, working, she doesn't say anything, just smiles tiredly at the both of them and then gives her boyfriend an unusually long hug.
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"...Another one? I haven't been keep...ing up. I wonder if he was part of it be...cause he was part of the first one?" Schreber looks worried and strokes her arm to keep the physical contact.
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"I think Jeff was part of it because he spends all his time in the Nexus and has spectacularly bad luck." She pats Daniel's hand, then heads to the freezer to retrieve a tub of rocky road ice cream. Clearly, it's been a long day. "It happened last year, Markus, but no, I don't think so. Do either of you want any?" She holds up the container.
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"I'll make tea..." Schreber sighs and gets up. At least this means he is taking a break from the paperwork! "I know you had a bad ex...perience, but it's rare for Nexus events to spread here. Us...ually when one of us gets hit with an LOL it's... because of time we've spent there." He kisses Sarah's cheek in passing. "I don't need any."
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More seriously, she adds, "People are only at risk for LOLs if they visit the Nexus, and then only if they eat or drink anything, or accept a gift from a stranger." She sighs, scooping out the ice cream. "The city is at risk for larger scale events whether people know about the Nexus or not."
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"Oh... God, what hasn't happened to him?" she sighs. "He's been turned into a woman, a pokemon, a movie monster, a cat-man... the first time he was kidnapped, he had to participate in a bloodsport type of game and returned to the Nexus only after he'd been shot. This time, he came back infected with some sort of fungus." She's leaving out a lot of details, of course, but most of those aren't relevant.
"The absolute worst is that somehow he's psychically connected to the man that shot me, so that anything that happens to one of them happens to the other. But, honestly, that had less to do with the Nexus and more to do with his awful luck ( ... )
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