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[blowfish]

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

[ VOICE, VIDEO, ACTION ]

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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.

voice;

[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.