EJ003X | audio | night 011

[littlemissfutility]

Hello?

[ The voice is whispery right now, but it still sounds young and female. Enough talk, and some of the vowels might sound just a touch southern. ]

Is there anybody out there? Dawn? Is Dawn here?

[ A pause. ]

If someone's out there, I need help. And if whoever's out there doesn't wanna help - I'm armed.

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[littlemissfutility]

Uh. Yeah.

[ Duh. ]

Do you?

[ichoosefight]

I do. I was gonna offer to help if you didn't.

Oh yeah, one other thing, animals here are weird. There's at least one dinosaur, and okapi with glowing spots, and god only knows what else.

So, like. Do what you will with that.

Seems wrong to say "don't freak out if you see a dinosaur".

[littlemissfutility]

[ It goes unheard, but she laughs aloud at the thought of a dinosaur. That sounds so fake. So does an okapi, but mostly because she's never heard the word before.

(It's too bad Carl isn't here. She bets he'd love a dinosaur.) ]

What about walkers?

[ichoosefight]

[ Well hey, as long as she's entertained... ]

I'm... not sure what that is.

[littlemissfutility]

Walkers. Rotters. Biters. I don't know what you call them, where you're from.

[ Hm. ]

The dead.

[ichoosefight]

[ ... ]

Zombies?

[littlemissfutility]

Really?

[ It's just a sound to her. They could be called blippetyzips, and it'd sound about as silly. ]

Who came up with that?

[ichoosefight]

...Haiti, I think.

[ She can't exactly look it up, but it sounds right. ]

Corpses brought back to life? Is that what you mean?

[littlemissfutility]

Weird.

[ Sorry, Haiti. ]

Yeah. You know, the reason the world ended.

[ichoosefight]

[ Well, that answers that question. ]

No, no zombies, or walkers, that I know of.

And, uh...

Have you heard of the idea of alternate universes?

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah?

[ichoosefight]

That's kind of what we're dealing with here.

I mean, for one thing, there was no zombie apocalypse in my world. And yours can't happen to it, because "zombie" is a very common word and a popular monster for the horror genre.

You're from Atlanta, Georgia? I'm from Gotham, New Jersey. It's not a local thing.

[littlemissfutility]

It makes sense, I guess. But it doesn't explain how we got here in the first place.

[ Also: ]

...Gotham like Batman?

[ichoosefight]

Yeah. Your world has Batman? People keep thinking I'm crazy or something.

[littlemissfutility]

I mean...kind of.

[ichoosefight]

...Is he, like, fictional? SS5 said that her world has a fictional Superman, and they haven't made any kind of alien contact.

[ Batman and Superman make sense to write about, but... is there a fictional Steph? Maybe? ]

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah. He's imaginary, like Science Dog.

Sorry.

[ichoosefight]

...That's so weird.

But you thought of him when I said "Gotham". Is Gotham fictional too?

TO994M; voice

[cactusy]

Seriously?

Re: TO994M; voice

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah. [ Defensive, just a little. ] Why?

[cactusy]

No, you know what, it's-- whatever. I believe you.

[Insomuch as she believes anything right now.]

[littlemissfutility]

Doesn't sound like you do.

[ichoosefight]

This is actually pretty big for her. She's having a hard time with the, uh, let's call it a paradigm shift. For her this is downright friendly.

[ Consider yourself lucky, Sameen, that isn't explicitly saying "good job" or "you're learning so well!" ]

[cactusy]

It doesn't actually matter if I do or not, right?

[littlemissfutility]

Because it's true even if you don't want it to be. Yeah.

But it's still kind of rude to act like I'm making it up.