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[hisbabygirl]

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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[hisbabygirl]

[Her mouth falls open in surprise. That is a huge thing Julie just offered.]

A-are you sure?

[Someday she'll find a way to make it up to Julie. Even just something to say thanks.]

Thank you! You're really nice, you know that?

[Sarah smiles at Julie, relief at having another person on her side showing clearly. It's like a bit of the weight just got taken off her shoulders. The next question however draws a pause.]

Well it's... September, 2013 on good ol' planet Earth. Do you know it?

[Julie looks human enough, but with all she's seen today alone, Sarah's playing it safe.]

[grigio]

I am positive. You just gotta do me a favor. If you ever come over, you have to promise me you'll draw something on my walls.

[Yes, Sarah. That is an adult actually encouraging you to draw on the walls. If Sarah looks close enough, the walls behind Julie are a mess of color and pictures. She prefers it that way and probably did a lot of it herself.]

Ah, yes. Planet Earth. [A teasing smirk.] That's the one that's three planets from the sun and out if nine is the only inhabitable one, right? [A nod, quickly followed by a small laugh.]

I'm from there. Seattle, specifically.

[hisbabygirl]

[If only all adults were like this. Julie is officially up with the coolest people she's ever met.]

That is so awesome! I always wanted to do something like this back home but my Dad said I couldn't and that looks so cool!

[Excited? Well yes she is. Sarah forces herself to calm down a little and parks her backside back on her chair. As she speaks, her eyes continue to roam the walls.]

You got it. [Sarah laughs lightly and raises a hand.] I live juuuust outside of Austin.

[Her smiles fades a little. Oh right. Things were getting pretty crazy back home.]

Well. Lived.

[grigio]

Lived.

[Oh. Oh, Julie doesn't like the sound of that at all. She's now not even bothering to hide her concern.]

Define lived, kiddo. Tell me about home.

[hisbabygirl]

Yeeaah?

[Her tone is horribly unsure. Any cheer she might of still held is gone in an instant.]

Well, there was something real bad happening. People were getting sick and...

[Attacking others. Rioting. Desperately trying to escape. Sarah takes a deep breath.]

I dunno. My dad, uncle and I were trying to leave the county but there were guards and.

[She pales, shakes her head.]

It was just bad.