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Hello..?

[Have yourself a twelve year old girl testing the water on the shiny new thing and mumbling to herself a little as she does.]

...I hope I'm doing this right.

[Oh right. The people can hear her. Sarah takes a deep breath and gets to talking.]

I uh, gotta say, this is some real crazy stuff going on. I don't even know where to start makin' sense of any of it. The Kedan people, the ones that work here? I think they work here. Live here? I dunno. They explained a lot of stuff but I'm still trying to wrap my head around even being here.

[Sarah pauses. When she speaks again it's with a little less certainty.]

Do they ever make mistakes with who they bring here? I'm not sure I'm the monster fighting type.

[Not real ones anyway.]

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[she holds up her bite, the sleeve of her shirt pulled back]

I got infected. But this is months now. We were trying to get to some people still looking for a cure.

[Sorry Ellie, Sarah's just going to lean a little towards the screen and then... back away. She frowns a bit. For all she knows this is important, it's kinda confusing too.]

So... someone bit you? One of the sick people?

[Sarah might be from the start of the outbreak, but she really doesn't know much about it.]

I won't tell anyone though! I promise.

Yeah. For some reason, I'm immune.

[she hides her bite, pulling her sleeve back down]

But I know if others knew-- they'd... probably not understand. Maybe here is different, but not back home.

That's good. I'm glad you're okay.

[She means every word, even if understanding the depth of what's been said is still being worked out. If she's immune, then maybe others are, and that's definitely a plus.]

Thanks for tellin' me.

[Sarah smiles and she means it. She's a little uneasy, but if Ellie knows her dad and her dad trusts Ellie, then Sarah should give her a shot too, right?]

[she takes the encryption off, now that all that's been said and done. She didn't want to have it said there over the network, but it's worth it]

It's okay. You... Mean a lot to Joel. I'm sure he'd want me to, I dunno, look after you while we're here. Hell, he'd probably want us to be friends. So, I'll help you out. I've been surviving here for awhile.

And it isn't that hard, you know. Just gotta keep track of this money stuff, and if you don't, there are ways to get money and food. Don't sweat it.

[Sarah follows suits with the encryption, glad that the console is one thing she actually seems to understand in this mess.

Hearing that Ellie's willing to help her out makes Sarah smile.]

Thanks! I really mean it. You've already helped a whole lot and I wanna return the favor if I can. Even without my old man bein' a part of it.

[Once she adjusts to what's going on, that is. She likes Ellie well enough, and it's nice to have some familiar ground.]

One thing though, the uh... Kedan people? They were sayin' stuff about a job. Uhh... what do I do there? How do you go about money?

Yeah, see, that's kinda what I'm talking about. It's really fucking annoying, but you gotta have money. And that means doing a job for most people. But I go hunting instead, because I'm probably not gonna be that good at a job-job.

[she'd remind her not to worry, but there are weeks when money is really tight for herself. But she has friends that help her get by there on the Turtle, so, she figures Sarah will get some to, or she could share the wealth]

But no one's gonna let us starve, you know? And I'll help you out, too.

Well, that's kinda how the world works, isn't it? I mean, that's what it's like in 2013 at least.

[The more they talk, the more Sarah realizes how bad she needs to pick Ellie's brain about the future.]

...How'd you learn to hunt? And thanks! I seriously mean that.

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