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[numanstan]

... I'm alive.

[He sounds very surprised by this.]

... Not even injured.

[He sounds even more surprised by this.]

... But England... Heh. Hehhehheh.

[He starts laughing hysterically, more emphasis on the hysterical than the laughter.]

I invented bloody cold fusion! Ha!

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[perfektsymmetry]

V-vince...

[numanstan]

... Yeah? I'm gonna guess and say y'didn't have the same amazin', stupid luck as me.

[perfektsymmetry]

[There's a pause.]

...guess not... but I'm not as bad off as some, I-I still have all my limbs...

[numanstan]

Always good, havin' limbs. They're well useful.

... What happened?

[perfektsymmetry]

Yeah, I just... I have this wound that... i-it's pretty deep but I think Natu or Crane can probably help me...

V-Vince... they... Margot... and Kay... a-and Raivis... w-what if they don't...

[Crowe's been through a lot since he got to Mayfield months ago, and he's an emotional kid. But this is the first time he's actually started to cry, quietly.]

[numanstan]

They'll come back. They always come back. They came back after Westport, yeah? They're probably already back in Mayfield, wearin' nice clothes and eatin' better food and wonderin' what's takin' the rest of us so long.

[He tries to sound confident, but he comes off more as trying to convince himself than Crowe.

And if it makes him feel better, Vince has been crying since the television broadcast.]

[perfektsymmetry]

[a shaky sigh] O-one can only hope. B-but this situation.. I-I mean we're all here this time... I-I don't know. I can't even think straight anymore.

[numanstan]

Just... don't do anythin' stupid, like everybody else's been doin'. That's not gonna do anythin' 'cept make more people dead. The name of the game's survival, and we might actually have a chance of winnin' it.

[perfektsymmetry]

[He was thinking about it too.]

R-right. I-If Westport's any indications, w-we might only have to p-put up with this for a few more days, yeah?

[numanstan]

Hopefully it'll end before the hazmat men show up. I'd rather not see 'em again.

[perfektsymmetry]

…I hadn't thought about that. No sign of then so far, o-or at least I haven't heard anything yet...

Though I wonder… is all that related to the gas they mentioned on the television here then?

[numanstan]

Dunno... I just know if I see 'em, I'll just off myself right then and there, 'cause I ain't dealin' with that again.

[perfektsymmetry]

I-If they do... if we wait inside we might make it... that's what Kay did...

[numanstan]

They started breakin' down doors, that last day... I'm surprised I even survived, really.

[perfektsymmetry]

.....oh. W-well.... we'll deal with that once we get there...