You wander into a new town, and you feel out who's who, what's what, where the safe places are, how things work. Basic survival tactics, in a world like this one -- you have to be able to work out the lay of the land quickly. And if you wander enough, you get good at it
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"Hi there."
The girl with the guitar is smallish, blonde, and probably not out of her teens. This, combined with her expression at the moment and the fact that she's not (visibly) armed at the moment, make her look about as unthreatening as you can safely assume anyone to be theses days.
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"Um."
Right, focus.
"Hi." He waves a little. "I'm, um, kinda lost."
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(She does pull the guitar a little closer to herself, though. No touchy!)
"Lost as in have somewhere to be but aren't sure how to get there, or just...don't know where you're going?"
Any metaphysical double-entendres are probably unintentional.
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He rubs the back of his head. "Know anyplace good to spend the night? Maybe get some food?"
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Now, please don't call her biased, but after the last influx of poor pitiful new humantypes ... well, she's a little edgy about new guys. So when she catches this guy's scent, her eyes narrow.
She adjusts her scarf a little more snugly around her neck and ... wanders.
His way, if you must know. But it's probably a coincidence.
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Not so much for the access to the gun as to make it steadier in case he has to turn around and run like hell.
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"Hey," she calls. Halfway to friendly.
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"Hey."
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