A rapid report of gunshots can be heard from a
recently darker-than-usual part of the Nexus. A bit later Alyx emerges from the darkness, holding the very pistol responsible for the noise. Maybe she was attacking the darkness? She looks exhausted and high-strung, always good signs to look for in someone entering a populated area bearing small
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He holds out a white plastic bottle.
"No need for violence."
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She lowers her pistol so that it's not pointing it at anyone, but she's not putting away just yet. "Figure of speech, but thanks muchly." She taps one out onto her palm, knocking it back with a dry-swallow and a grimace once she's determined it with a critical eye to be nothing more than common head-ache medicine.
"Ugh. Feel like a Strider stepped on my head."
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The aspirin is indeed mundane. It was probably purchased in an airport somewhere, Sydney maybe.
"Had a run in with something disagreeable?"
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Yay for Sydney. "She rubs a temple with her finger. "It's been a long day. Last thing I remember is climbing up the side a building and getting jumped by a dropship of Combine troops."
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"I can see how that would be... tiring."
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She shrugs. "I could've taken them if they hadn't gotten the drop on me."
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