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[One moment she's going up red-tinted corridors that move and switch places like a sliding puzzle, and the next, after she's touched an item sphere, she's standing at the center of a station platform nothing like Orphan's Cradle
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Time's not the only thing you should be worrying about.
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That wouldn't be a problem if my home wouldn't be completely destroyed within an hour.
I need to go back now.
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I-I know your sudden arrival is just as confusing, we were all confused when we all first arrived, I'm sure, but I've always been told calm heads are much easier to have when dealing with a situation like this! If you calm yourself, you can one situation at a time...
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I am calm. Do you want to see me not calm?
[Ugh.]
I need answers. Where's the man in charge? --Or is it a man?
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[heheh Funny how the tone of this person's voice reminded her of her friends back home.]
I'm pretty sure threatning or beating up people won't give you the answers you need!
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[she's about to ask more but knowing she'd just arrived herself puts a wall block. lightning is left to squeeze her eyes and take a deep breath.]
How are you adjusting, then? Are you even being paid for what you're doing?
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And what do you know about this place?
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My name is Lightning. What's yours?
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Yeah, I got that, but my world is going to end sooner before this unknown illness does if I don't get back this instant.
Who are you? Tell me what you know if it's got anything to do with whoever manages this place--or the beacons.
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You're not alone in that. Though my world was...rebuilding. Useless, now.
Someone who touched a beacon. [ A shrug. ] Anyone pass this to you?
[ Switch back to text ] 1_INFOFILE.VPF
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but she swallows it down and opens the file, studying it a while, especially the map.]
Right. Thanks. [grudgingly, but no reason to be impolite.] I'll take it from here.
[she guesses. should she find a room even though she doesn't plan on staying? ...too early to think of that. but where should she start going to first...]
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[his cheerfulness is at first met with contempt. she was tense enough running across platforms that would lead her to orphan--to dysley, but now she's purely coiled with stress. everything in her body is alert and taut, her face certainly no different. her frown, if he could see it, would look painful.
but as he goes on, he proves to know more than the others and presents a greater promise of competence; therefore, she eases. fractionally.
prepare for those bundle of questions, because she does have them. might as well ask, and the sooner she learns, the quicker she can find a way out of here and back to her...teammates.]
Lightning Farron.
[she pauses, taking hold of her beacon and glancing at it a moment and then storing it in her leg pouch.]
You're not from here, are you? Sounds like you've been here a lot longer. What's keeping the scientists from fixing these?
[distrustful, she already wants to accuse them for lying about repairs because dying men are desperate. she'd know. she's going to ( ... )
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[an impulsive correction. only the military referred to her by her last name--and she wasn't a sergeant anymore. but the fact that allen looked a lot like her younger charge probably lent to it too.
she tries to listen to him, but there are so many conditions that seem to force her to stay here that simply shake up the control she's attempting to maintain. how he's laying it on her doesn't help either.
though she doesn't quite explode yet, her tone of voice isn't any less gruff.]
Don't tell me it doesn't matter. I'll find those materials, wherever they are, and I will bring it to them so they'll have no excuse.
Is there a map of this place I can access? And how could I contact these scientists--are they here?
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