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[selflesslight]

So you might have noticed there's a big ol' robot parked out back of the bunker at the Cooper farm. It's large and green and looks very battered

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[no_devo_quotes]

O hay there, large robot, how are you? Still not evil and/or not causing massive destruction?

SONIA IS ONTO YOU

She is not sure she approves of its current use as a combo seat/apple holder. It might explode or something.

[selflesslight]

Val does not seem worried!

She spots Sonia and waves. "Hey there!"

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"Hey." She returns the wave.

"You sure that thing's safe?"

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"Yeah. My brother's working on repairing it. If shit was up, he'd know."

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...well, that's good enough for Sonia.

"Mind some company?"

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"Nah, come on up if you want. Just try not to damage the robot or Neil will kick my ass."

The top of the mech's head is six feet wide. There is room up there for two people and a bowl of apples.

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Walljump time!

(When you do a lot of your fighting in mountainous, foresty, or stairful areas, you get very good at going up very quickly.)

"Figure I oughta get t'know folks around here better. You... do the..." Gesture. "Thing."

[selflesslight]

"This thing?" she asks, picking up an apple with a thin tendril of light.

"Yeah, that's me. Valerie Bell. Glowy tentacles, cusses a lot. And you? Sonia, right?"

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"Yeah. Belmont. An' Ralph." Her passenger (strapped to her back) waves an arm in the general direction of the tentacle and vocalizes.

And she takes the opportunity to squat and squint at the tendril.

She's not really into this "Magic that is not obviously either witchcraft or holy" thing. It's confusing.

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Helpfully, "I'm a mutant. My world's full of 'em."

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Peeer.

"...you look awful normal for that."

OH YEAH OTHER WORLDS (yes, she is still getting used to that concept. Sonia is not always quick on the uptake.)

"Must be different there. Back in Warakiya, they... y'know, look weird."

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"Some mutants look weird where I'm from. Most don't."

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"They're mostly also evil, so..." She is assuming that you are not, since you 1) do not ping as evil and 2) have yet to either try to eat Ralph or attack her.

Warakiya is a fairly simple place in that respect.

"You a scholar?" YOU HAVE A BOOK.

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"...A huh? Nah. I just felt like reading today, 's all."

Anatol Rapoport, The Origins of Violence.

Neil would approve.

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MADNESS.

"I'm learnin'," Sonia offers sheepishly.

She can almost get through Pat the Bunny!

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"Yeah?"

Val's a little thrown by that, but hell, she's seen weirder things around here than illiteracy.

"Good. 'S useful."