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"What?"

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what gave you that idea?

[danzan]

Lucky guess.

And you took it.

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yeah so I took it. big deal.

what's it to you?

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I like books.

I'm making small talk about my interests.

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oh.

I'm not good at small talk.

and this kinda sounds like small talk about me rather than your interests

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All right.

My favourite book's The Last Man by Mary Shelley, published 1826. World's been fucked by a plague, and people continue to be stupid, ending that rips your heart out. That kind of thing. My father got it for me on my tenth birthday because I liked Frankenstein so much.

I found a copy at the library but the pages're all fucked up.

This copy of Aesop's Fables from the house ain't half-bad, though.

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people have a habit of being stupid even when the world's fucked up i guess. maybe because the world fucked them up in the first place.






i don't read.

mum used to read to me. it's why i took the book i guess. i don't know. been thinking about her a lot since i kept hearing her screaming.

whatever. forget it. it doesn't matter.

[danzan]

[ To be fair, Logan's not gonna push more than that. It feels like a big enough confession on its own, and his mild curiosity is satisfied. ]

Father read to me too.

You know, my daughter showed up here. At least, if it ain't some mind trick.

Been thinking maybe I should pass my father's tradition on.

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[ Logan's smart not to push. It's a fast way to this going horribly wrong. ]

holy shit. you got a kid? and they're here?

that's......... really shit.

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Yeah.

Maybe.

I don't know if the town's just messing with me. Be real fucked up if it was, though.

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and real fucked up if it wasn't too

this shithole likes to play all sorts of games with us

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Yeah. Well. No matter what it is, it ain't my kid's fault.

But I think this whole place is too fucked to really be one person's fault, too. Mother Superior aside.

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in terms of 'kid'. how old are they? cause i'm just getting real pissed off with little kids getting pulled into this shitshow.

makes you kinda wonder just how this place existed in the first place.

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I'd say "yeah, I wonder", but wondering just gives me a fucking headache.

And she's 11. My daughter. [ Or at least that's what she thinks, but Logan's not going to go around telling people his daughter grew up in a lab.

Even if remembering it is like a punch to the gut every time. ]

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it's why i don't do much hard thinking. kills the booze buzz.

[ Eleven, though. Eleven years old and stuck in this fucking shithole. This fucking nightmare. It makes her angrier than she dares to admit. ]

shit. i'm sorry. that sucks.

what's her name?

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Laura.

First day here she had to fight fucking zombies and I didn't even know she arrived until after.

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man. fuck deerington. she get out okay?

i could keep an eye out for her. if you wanted.

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Should probably meet her before you offer babysitting. She's kind of a handful.

But I appreciate it.

Maybe you can show her Winnie the Pooh.

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aren't all kids?

i'll keep an eye out for her. say hi. whatever.

maybe. if that's her thing.

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Yeah, you'll know her when you see her. She's short. And she looks like me if I was a pretty little girl.

Speaks Spanish, too. So if you know how I figure that's an easy in.

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to be honest, i just imagined you in a dress and it's funny as fuck.

but noted.

uh. it's a no on the spanish. i can speak german but i guess it's not gonna help here.

[danzan]

Don't think it is, but I'll remember that next time something German pops up.

And I'm taking funny as fuck as a compliment.

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cool.

i mean it wasn't really one.

but you do you, logan.