(20 || VOICE) uhhh backdated to early evening yesterday

[axemeaquestion]

So. Man. I didn't think about it until now, but I realized tommorow's going to officially be my first full year in this place.

Feels--surreal. I mean, I guess you could say this place saved my life. It definately saved me from the zombies. Hell, it probably saved me from whatever shady bullshit the military would've done to me if I was a carrier of

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[12second_orz]

You feel old? Though in terms of being here, I've only been here for a few mon-

[wait. back up a bit.]

Did you say zombies?

[axemeaquestion]

Sometimes. [SMIRK.] But most of the time I'm too young and beautiful to feel--

[Oh.]

--Yeaaaah. Zombies. It's not the TECHNICAL term...

[12second_orz]

[weakly] I wasn't aware that there was a technical term. I'd always assumed something had to exist in order to have a technical term. What's that saying about old dogs and new tricks?

[axemeaquestion]

You get mysteriously teleported to a creepy island in Canadian and you're questioning what exists?

[Whatever, she's actually taking it in stride. That comment was just the usual dry sense of humor showing through. She figured somebody wouldn't believe her eventually, that's why she always asked when she had to explain where she came from.]

For a while they only existed in crappy movies where I come from too. Until recently. About two weeks before I showed up here the Infection came.

[12second_orz]

Hngh. I seem to be making a habit of that, don't I?

[Well, maybe it would help if his definition of reality didn't keep changing every time he turned his back. Damn island. Damn alternate realities.]

The 'Infection'? [How ominous, he nearly adds, but it's probably best to bite his tongue for now.]

[axemeaquestion]

Well, I can't really blame you. If came here a few weeks before what happened to me happened? I'd be doing the same thing.

[Goddamn magic islands.]

Technical term for the 'zombie apocalypse'.

wow how do I keep forgetting- I'm so sorry! [video]

[12second_orz]

['Apocalypse'. It's a harsh, unforgiving word, isn't it? Tonegawa takes his time in answering.]

And that's when you started travelling, as you mentioned before? Was it to escape?

OH don't even worry about that with me, I forget all the time too

[axemeaquestion]

From Savannah to New Orleans. Right. New Orleans was supposed to be the last holdout.

haha, fair enough! Thank you for forgiving my derp!

[12second_orz]

'Supposed to be'. [If anything had sounded ominous before...] I take it that matters didn't quite work out that way.

I've herped so had I derped, you're okay with me

[axemeaquestion]

Not--exactly. It was as overrun as anywhere else, but the military was there too. [But...] Whole lotta help they might have turned out to be. But it was stay in the city getting BOMBED at and die or go with them.

♥♥♥

[12second_orz]

Not a difficult choice, then.

[Hoards of the undead, bombs, military forces- suddenly, he can see the appeal in one of Hyodo's little obsessions.]

An old... business partner of mine had a fully-functional luxury underground bunker built in case of that sort of thing. It cost him billions of yen. [he gives a grin that could just as easily be a grimace.] I thought he was insane at the time, naturally, but maybe he had an idea.

[axemeaquestion]

[Blink.]

A luxury bunker? I didn't know those words could go together. Makes me wish we ran into something like that, though. CEDA made makeshift safehouses, but...

[12second_orz]

You'd be surprised. 'Luxury' is a given, at that level.

But 'makeshift' and 'safehouses' are two more words that don't generally go together. Who are CEDA?

[axemeaquestion]

Civil Emergency and Defense Agency. The guys who are supposed to protect us from natural and man-made disasters.

[12second_orz]

['Supposed to'. 'But'. The lesser of the two evils. The more he hears, the more additions there are to the catalog of human failings.]

You can't trust the government with anything, no matter what universe you come from, it seems. Comparatively speaking, this place must be the best possible thing that could have happened.

[axemeaquestion]

Is that a universal thing? Hearing everyone's stories here had me wondering. [And. Welp.] Yeah, I know.