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Yesterday was a day of shooting- and, very briefly, shouting. Today, not so much. Ellen's got work to do outside to meet John-117's standards, and that takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a whole lot of sweating

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"Whatchya got here?" Chandler asks. "Model car?"

He might be joking.

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"Horse, actually," Ellen says. "These used to be toys for little girls to ride before the War. I'm trying to put together one from all the best parts." She glances up. "Hi, Chandler."

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"Sort of like My Little Pony?"

Chandler sounds like he might be a little too familiar with that particular toy.

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"I... maybe? I don't know," Ellen says. "Were those life-sized?"

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Chandler measures the size of the toy with his hands -- about the size of a baseball.

"No, I'd say they're a little smaller than that."

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"Oh. They sold Buttercup toys in that size too," Ellen says. "Giddyup Buttercup was the riding size version, but I found a couple of the little ones when I was on board the alien spaceship. Don't know where they got them from."

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"Toys R Us, probably," Chandler says.

Yeah, his jokes are all probably lost on her, but he's used to that by now.

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"That's a toy store? That or the factory," Ellen says. "Although I hardly saw anything much left at the factory, just ghouls and things... well, you never know."

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"That's... those one guys, right?" Chandler asks.

An image like that doesn't leave your mind too easily.

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"Like the bartender in Megaton, yeah," Ellen says. "Only these were worse off than him. They'd lost their minds and were pretty much just trying to kill anything that moved, like an old monster movie or something."

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Cringe.

"Hey, you didn't just... take me to like, your world's version of Disneyland, did you?"

Not that he minds, really.

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"Disney-" Ellen frowns, thinking; then she remembers Tyler telling her about it. "Oh. No. No, Megaton's definitely not... no. I mean, it's one of the safest places in the Wasteland, but that's mostly because of the city walls. It's a real settlement, not an entertainment venue or anything."

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"So, it's like... a lot more scary there?"

That's a little unnerving, given how scary some of the people there had been.

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Ellen nods. "Even Megaton is scarier than you saw," she says. "I mean, you saw the bomb and all, that's one thing. But I don't think you saw Stockholm or Morris. There's always at least one on patrol up on the catwalks near the top of the city walls, in case of raider attack, and they're both trained snipers. The further out you go, the worse it gets."

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"Jeez." Chandler knew that going through her door might be a little dangerous, but... nothing like that.

"Do you take people to those... other places?"

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"Only if they're coming with me to help me in battle," Ellen says. "And then I make sure they've got good enough guns and armor to survive, and anti-radiation medicine, and things like that. Gus wound up in my world far out in the Waste once by mistake when I closed the Bar door too hard and it bounced open, but I never meant for him to come here."