Ah... Y'know, I think so? I always used buses before I got my license, at least.
[But it makes sense that he can't recall it being in service if it was full of mutant rats and vines and secret Retrospec nonsense the whole time.]
It's kinda hard to remember that far back, though. ...And I guess I can't really be sure that the stuff I remember is what was actually happening, anyway.
[He's very much a "ignore the problem until it goes away" kind of person, after all... If you don't consider that reality as you know it didn't ever actually exist, then that won't be true, clearly?!]
Buuut the rats might be a new thing? Who knows, with how much stuff moves around here. Or maybe you just got lucky and they were busy eating someone else that day.
I wonder if it's a coincidence or not, then. It's not like rats don't turn up where they aren't wanted all the time, so I guess it'd apply to large ones too, but...it's strangely convenient.
Maybe it's just how people who aren't on the network interact with this kinda stuff? I mean... If you think about what Maurice said about learning stuff the right way or whatever, and how learning more means you're more at risk, maybe you wouldn't have been a nasty rat target in the first place back then.
[But that's also spiraling rapidly into Headache Territory™, so he just sort of shrugs it off after.]
Either way, I guess it's good we're a little tougher now that things like the rats are showing up.
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[...in case he wasn't worried about that, there u go.
In any case she's back to moving again. No limp, no slowed walk. Seems like it isn't a big deal after all.]
Hey, how long have you lived here?
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What kinda gross rats attack people for their blood anyway, geez...
[Monster ones?! As for the question:]
Eh? Mm... Probably like, ten years or something. I've moved a couple of times between here and Japan. Why?
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Has it always been this way?
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[But it makes sense that he can't recall it being in service if it was full of mutant rats and vines and secret Retrospec nonsense the whole time.]
It's kinda hard to remember that far back, though. ...And I guess I can't really be sure that the stuff I remember is what was actually happening, anyway.
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Even if it was, we need some kind of foundation to talk about things.
[IF YOU PULL OUT THE FLOOR WE ALL FALL INTO SPACE AND DIE.]
Still, I guess that answers that. I never would've guessed this was the big secret.
I remember having to come get a cousin of mine out of these tunnels before, but I guess we didn't get far enough for rats to maul us to death.
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[He's very much a "ignore the problem until it goes away" kind of person, after all... If you don't consider that reality as you know it didn't ever actually exist, then that won't be true, clearly?!]
Buuut the rats might be a new thing? Who knows, with how much stuff moves around here. Or maybe you just got lucky and they were busy eating someone else that day.
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[She considers that for a moment.]
I wonder if it's a coincidence or not, then. It's not like rats don't turn up where they aren't wanted all the time, so I guess it'd apply to large ones too, but...it's strangely convenient.
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[But that's also spiraling rapidly into Headache Territory™, so he just sort of shrugs it off after.]
Either way, I guess it's good we're a little tougher now that things like the rats are showing up.