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[blowfish]

"Yo, there's no beep on this thing."

[ VOICE, VIDEO, ACTION ]

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[blowfish]

... the outbreak?

[ Tentative, because yeah, it sounds bad. Please don't tell him that this story involves legit monsters, like Haven's already got. ]

Infected - what's, what's that?

[ But she's just a little kid. His natural curiosity, his often tactless curiosity, is tampered by the anxiety he feels at forcing her to revisit potentially bad memories. Jesse rubs at his mouth before he suddenly rescinds the questions. ]

You don't gotta talk about it if you don't wanna.

voice;

[newwatch]

[Sarah takes a deep breath.]

No, it's alright. [Better her than her dad, though he would know more than she does.]

There's this sickness that was going around. Made people act crazy-- violent, aggressive, not thinking straight. At first, most of 'em were in the hospitals getting treated. But they escaped.

[Another deep breath and a pause. She remembers the city burning, the monsters pulling people out of cars...]

Everyone panicked. People tried to leave and get somewhere safe but it was hard. Not a lot of safe places left.

voice;

[blowfish]

[ Oh, hell. He chews on his thumbnail while he listens. More descriptive than Joel's explanation, and it puts things into a fuzzy sort of context. Fuzzy and terrifying. ]

Sounds, sounds pretty freaky. [ No shit. ] It never got safer? There's no, like, treatment for it?

voice;

[newwatch]

[Quietly:] No.

voice;

[blowfish]

[ Tapping the side of his hand to his forehead, he sighs. He doesn't know what to say to this little girl, what to offer besides an awkward apology. ]

Sorry. You guys have been through some -- [ no cursing, Jesse, ] rough stuff.

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[newwatch]

[A pause, more as if she's debating telling him something else.

She decides to, if only to make things clearer for Jesse.]

My dad's been through more of it. Y'know how sometimes people come from different times? He's from the future.

[Not a lie, just an omission.]

voice;

[blowfish]

[ Different times, different universes. It's a small comfort when he finds others from planet earth, crazy circumstances aside. ]

How far? You're both from Texas, right?

[ those accents yo. ]

voice;

[newwatch]

Yeah. I don't know how long, but it's been a long time. Dad didn't have any gray hair the last time I saw him.