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[razorback]

[a kid comes into frame, he's wearing cargo pants and looks 100% geared up for war]

So, where do I get my class schedule?

Uh. And if I had a gun with me before showing up, is it still around? I'd like it back.

[he's always facing the camera as he speaks, someone observant might notice he's not nearly as calm as he's trying to look]

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[sossery]

... I'm not sure.

[razorback]

How long have you been here?

[sossery]

Must be... around a month now.

[razorback]

Do you believe the whole fictional thing?

[sossery]

I don't really care.

[razorback]

Why not? Were you killed?

[sossery]

That's an unusual conclusion to jump to. No, someone I cared about is ... uhm, sort of dead, but he'll be coming back. I just have to wait for him.

[razorback]

[ shrugs ]

Right. The king, I guess?

[sossery]

King Arthur, yes.

[razorback]

Sailed to Avalon to get healed.

[sossery]

I put him on the boat to sail to Avalon, yes.

[razorback]

Look, I'm sorry. But that's where the legend stops.

[sossery]

He'll come back. He has to. And I'll be there when he does.

[razorback]

Do something useful while you wait. He wouldn't be happy if he found out you spent all that time sulking.

[sossery]

I'm not--It isn't sulking.

[razorback]

It looks like sulking.

[sossery]

And you deduced this from five minutes of conversation?

[razorback]

And loads of personal experience.

[sossery]

... Oh.

That sounds depressing.

[razorback]

There's a war going on, you get used to it.

[sossery]

There are wars in the future? Against who?

[razorback]

What do you know about astronomy? Planets, solar systems?

[sossery]

A little. It was explained to me when I got here.

[razorback]

We were invaded by creatures from somewhere else, another planet in a different galaxy— no idea of where exactly. In a matter of days most of humanity was dead.

[sossery]

What do they want?