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[stilljustandrew]

*Andrew's sitting in a booth, a half-finished plate of meatball-and-mozzarella Hot Pockets at his elbow.*

*He's ignoring them for the moment in favor of chewing on the end of his pen, and studying the half-finished list he's working on.*

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[krazyglusurgeon]

He taps on the table with two fingers, his other hand a bit busy holding onto his gun.

"You know about, er... the strange stuff, yeah?"

[stilljustandrew]

*Andrew looks up, a little surprised.*

Cooper. Hi. Uh, the Weird Scary Time kind of stuff? Yeah. Why?

[krazyglusurgeon]

"Anything about, er... dead people walking around? No fangs just, uh... moaning."

He scratches behind one ear.

"And shambling. And, er, diving onto people like Christmas dinner."

[stilljustandrew]

*Pause.*

You're talking about zombies?

[scaredbybook]

There is a girl here.

There is a girl here in a patchwork poncho with books in front of her.

There is a girl here with a stack of hardback volumes sitting in front of her, and a notebook. She's balancing a very thick copy of Tobin's Spirit Guide on her head.

. . . Kira is an art student. She has not needed to get together the concentration required for an effort like this in some time. And she's now yelping and diving to catch it. It is a borrowed book, and she remembers Jill's last lecture on so much as dog-earing a page.

[stilljustandrew]

Whoa whoa whoa hey!

*Andrew is too late to catch the book, sadly.*

[scaredbybook]

Kira bends her leg, lifts her knee to the side, and manages to slow the book's progress to the floor by momentarily netting it with the poncho. She snatches it, and victory from the jaws of defeat along with it! There is a guilty look.

"Whew! Thanks. It's borrowed."

If it were her copy, well. . . she could get lost in the index alone, but not at all in the happy sense. It would have gone out a window a long time ago.

[stilljustandrew]

'Sokay. Sorry I couldn't is that Tobin's Spirit Guide?

*It's amazing how he can go from apology to startled question in midbreath.*