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[a1enzo]

RECRUITING!!
People to help save the 'Net!
Must be able to enter computers or willing to be digitized.
Look for the banner.reads the text file on the bulletin board

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[queenofmay]

Marian couldn't help noticing the banners. They were everywhere.

Leaving her tray to the waitrat who scampered up, she walked over to the table, though her eye lingered on some words on the sign near him. Words her world had yet to invent.

....such as computers and digitized, and 'Net, as a place. Though she assumes that one is a world. Worlds had all sorts of names here.

Her eyes moved to the banner, and then to the young boy.

"Fair morn."

[a1enzo]

Enzo, in turn, has never heard that particular phrase, but the way she says it sounds like a greeting.

"Hi! I'm Enzo Matrix. Wanna help save my world?"

[queenofmay]

Marian was surprised, though it only registered slightly in her expression. He was blunt, if the undercurrent of his tone was true.

"Marian of Knighton," she offered, with a slightly regal nod to him. "What has happened to your world?"

[a1enzo]

"It got took over by a virus. Um, do you know computers?"

[queenofmay]

"Sadly, no," Marian offered, her lips forming into a small frown. "But I do what it's like to have a home over run by unkindly forces. Which sort of sounds like what you've got here."

That was Marian, after all. Trying to be diplomatic and helpful, even when she had no real idea what was going on.

But she grasped things well enough.

[a1enzo]

Very well indeed. "It is. And she's a virus, so she infects people and then they do whatever she wants. They want to."

[queenofmay]

"That's terrible," Marian said.

It really was worse than her home, where they at least had their own minds and intentions even if they were shadowed by those running their home.

"Is there anyway I can help?"

Sensible question. After all, he didn't look like anything she'd seen before and his world didn't sound like anything she'd even dreamt of.

[a1enzo]

"Can you use a weapon? Or you could help disinfect people, we've got a cure that we think'll work."

[queenofmay]

"I can use a few." Marian nodded, thinking about the battlement cache of weapons in her bedroom upstairs. "Though I could do either. I'd be glad to help where ever you most need it."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods. "I guess we'll see who else we get, and then we'll know where we need you. Oh, but, um, there's something kind of important. See, my world isn't made of the same stuff as your world. It's made of electricity. And you can't go into it if you're made of matter, it'll hurt you. We've got a digitizer, that'll turn you into electricity, but, um, we can't turn you back yet." He runs a hand through his hair and looks awkward.

[queenofmay]

Marian's expression turned wary, and thought she longed to look at her hands her eyes didn't waver even once in that direction, as she nodded slightly.

"Are there people working on that part?"

[a1enzo]

"Uh-huh. Dr. Stantz, and some guy named Harper. But I dunno how long it'll take. You can still come back here when you're digitized, but you can't go into human worlds." He looks glum. "So, uh, if you don't want to, y'know..."

[queenofmay]

Marian did look over to her door, as though it was the one thing that might stop her, but it was still just a solid wall, and then she looked back to him.

"No door, so it seems you need me more than they do right now. I'll come."

It was simple. She'd choose Nottingham over this, because it was her fight. But without it, she'd not turn away from need.

[a1enzo]

Enzo beams. "Thanks, Marian! I'll let you know when we've got more people, okay?"

[queenofmay]

She smiled at the boy, who regardless of color or his different form was just that, a little boy.

"Good luck with finding more people."