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[grigio]

[Julie took the time to shower and get cleaned up before getting on the network. She was previously covered in days worth of dirt and sweat and blood, some of it her friends and some of it belonging to a peculiar zombie, but more on that later. For now, Julie has a pressing question that may possibly seem rude in some circles.]

So, introductions go first, right? Hi. I'm Julie. I'm from what's supposed to be Seattle, Washington but is now just thousands of people living in a fortified sports stadium.

[As shitty as that probably sounds, she's still smiling about it. There are some good parts about Citi Stadium, but thank God for kidnappings that turn into vacations, even if this is her second one in just a few days.]

This place is between life, death and dreaming, right? I'm not sure how that's possible, but that's fine for now. That's not what I'm wondering.

[She runs her fingers through her hair, chewing her lower lip for a moment before letting her hand settle in her lap again.]

What I'm wondering is possibly considered rude. I don't know. It's been a very weird past few days for me back home that's changed my way of thinking a little bit so now I just want to know how many of you....are dead where you're from?

Where I'm from, dead seems to have a couple different meanings. It could either mean dead and that's it, you're gone for good. Or Undead as in a mobile corpse. A zombie.

[This sure as shit feels a bit awkward, but she's going to just press on. She started it, she'll finish it. That's cool with her.]

I just want to know what dead means here, since I haven't seen any[thing]one that fits what I know from home.

[And that's all. She'll just turn off the feed, now, giving a final smile before she does so.]

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[trainwrecked]

[Wry.] Yeah.

[He might have... shot somebody because she asked him to, rather than letting her go after anyone. After she was bitten. He's really fond of the jiangshi, can you tell?]

And, there're bookstores all around, but the big library is in the Palace, and you've gotta petition the Emperor for access to that. And I think a lot of it is kedanese. Which - what you speak out loud gets translated. What's written down or typed down, not so much.

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[grigio]

[Such love for them, she can hear it in his voice.]

I'll try the bookstore. We...don't have them back home. They're not considered important enough where I live. Not that we're all a bunch of illiterates. We can read. But someone back home decided it was better to learn how to fire a weapon and learn to salvage than it was to read a book.

[*coughcough* Dad *cough*]

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[trainwrecked]

Didn't say you were illiterate.

[Okay, okay.]

If we ever get ammo and such, maybe we can blow off some steam on a range somewhere.

[He was a soldier, after all. Even if he's only made one shot, more or less, in the last year.]

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[grigio]

I'm taking you up on that, Bucky. It sounds like fun.

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[trainwrecked]

I'll be looking forward to it, Julie.