☲ 004 | radio/open

[emberandash]

I'm thinking about going outside. If the way home can't be found in here, it must be out there.

Is the partial loss of our powers an effect of just this building, or of the entire world?

[she's pacing in the hallway near the clinic, so feel free to encounter here there]

Comments

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

Ey, what you tink you doin'? You can' go out dere by yourself!

[radio]

[emberandash]

Why not?

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

What, you crazy? It's dangerous!

[radio]

[emberandash]

I'm not crazy.

I'm dangerous, too.

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

You are if you tink you can go out dere an' find what you lookin' for on your own. Dere a reason we always travel in groups, sis!

[radio]

[emberandash]

I'm not forming a group with people I don't know.

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

But we gotta look out for each udda! You said you havin' a problem with your powers anyway, ja? What you gonna do if one'a dem tings come after you?

[radio]

[emberandash]

I can still fight.

I'm looking out for Lisa in the clinic.

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

Aye, so stubborn...! You won't be lookin' out for nobody if sumtin' happen out dere.

[sigh] I'll go wit' you.

[radio]

[emberandash]

I don't need a bodyguard.

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

A... 'bodyguard'? Dunno what dat is, but I was tinkin' more like 'comrade', anyway.

When you wanna leave?

[radio]

[emberandash]

I'm not going with you. We're not comrades.

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

What you mean? We all in dis togedda!

[radio]

[emberandash]

I don't know who most of you are.

[radio]

[digitaldreads]

Dunno who-- Oh! [sheepish laugh] Oh, ja! I'm Cielo. Sorry 'bout dat!

[radio]

[emberandash]

Just because I know your name doesn't mean you're coming with me.