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Post by Silas on Jan 5, 2008 23:48:51 GMT -5
Bane sighed, sipping his Coke. So they were stranded out here? "That's..." He blinked, realizing he couldn't exactly find the words. So they were stranded in the zone... That was a terrible fate, to be sure. Even in a town like this, Bane found that he couldn't stay for more than the summer without going maybe a quarter insane about it all. The Zone was horrific, a monument to the failure that happened just 22 years ago. To be trapped in it for who knows how long... He shivered, but not from the room temperature and the fact that he wore a short-sleeve shirt. "That's awful." He said after a moment of deliberation of how to express it. Pausing, he tried to let the feeling recede with time. As he sat there, still holding his drink defensively, his tattoo was visible again from underneath his left sleeve.
((Okay, he as well as I dunno what to ask now, so I guess it's Anna's turn... *Shrugs helplessly*))
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 0:03:11 GMT -5
Anna shrugged stirring her water around in her cup with her straw. "Yeah, but I wanted to be someplace I was needed and, I'm certainly needed here. It was the plan that I would work with Ashlyn when I came anyway and I think she's about ready to get out. She's kind of been training me to replace her, I think." She looked up at him seriously. "It's nice to feel needed, don't you think?" She wondered if he knew that in some way she couldn't quite explain yet, she needed him. And the more she thought about it she realized that there were other creatures here who needed him also. "'Course, it's a lot of responsibility, being needed." She shook her head to clear it of such serious talk and smiled again, "So, how long have you been here?" She turned the same question back on him not sure what else to ask.
((oh hey as rude as it sounds feel free to ask her how old she is. I have a point for it, so see if you can work it in.))
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 0:17:05 GMT -5
((Lol. Alrighty...)) Bane sipped his Coke, making the ice inside the glass shake as it was moved about. Setting it down, he sighed a weary sigh. "Well, I haven't been here constantly, but I first came here four years ago, in the summer. Stayed from late May up until early September. Sure, I came back after that first time, but it was hard to. I've seen a lotta things most beasts can't even think about... That summer, I was actually foolish enough to head towards the brain scorcher..." He took another gulp of his drink before continuing. "But, I came back, last winter, and now this summer." ((I can't really work in a question there... Unless I want to wtire for forever and then some... ))
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 0:28:47 GMT -5
((*chuckles* then tell her she looks too young to be so wise or ask her about school or sumat))
Anna tried to take another sip of her water only to realize that the cup was empty. She sighed. She couldn't imagine coming back if she was able to come and leave freely. But then again, now that she was here it almost felt that this was where she was supposed to be. At least for now. Maybe just to meet Bane. She smiled at the thought and said softly, "I'm glad you're here now." By 'here' she specifically meant with her not just being in the Zone. It hit her at once that she'd like to be with him anywhere on earth.
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 0:52:35 GMT -5
((Blarg. I'll try.))
The weasel agreed silently with Anna, feeling his neckfur tingle minutely at the sound of her voice. It was a natural reflex, under the circumstances. He was usually accompanied to the gruff, loud complaints of the other 'Stalkers' or of the duty beasts. Even in the outside world. He looked back at her, wishing he could say the same to her, but it would seem that he was saying that he would like Anna to stay in this Hell. And of course he meant the very opposite. After a few seconds of silence, and the curious stares of the patrons descending upon them, he spoke at random, thinking of another question. "Um, so what made you want to become a healer, anyway?" He asked, for he believed that was the root cause of her being here with him.
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 1:10:57 GMT -5
"Oh," the question caught her a bit off guard but again she was glad to have something to talk about that she knew something about. "I don't know really. I guess I've just always really wanted to help other beasts. Starting with my little sister. She was always real rough and tumble. I was always having to patch up a scrape or put ice on a bruise or something. And then there was the fact that I aways did well in school and I was never bothered by blood and guts," she made a silly face at this. "It all kind of fascinated me really, how all the different parts work together to keep us going. I did my undergrad work on a full scholarship." She stated proudly. "Med school's a little more expensive. I wonder if, mom will have to pay off my student loans now that I'm dead." The last line was said totally in jest and she smiled to reassure him that she wasn't being serious.
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 2:12:09 GMT -5
"Ah." Bane nodded, grinning thinly as well at the small joke. "Well, I'd say you fit the job well, though I don't know if your folks back home'll have to pay that off. I went through the 'Army programs', so I didn't have to worry too much about student loans and all that after college..." Bane took another gulp of his Coke, not wanting to say that he had no specific career in mind after he left college. He was thinking about becoming a sort of pilot like his father before him, though, but strangely he ended up here instead of in some air base in Nevada or something.
Well, he reflected he wouldn't have met a beast like Anna there. Nowadays, lust and the ensuing acts thereof were dominant over everything else, and more often than not beasts his age fell into that trend in America. Those beasts disgusted Bane. They seemed only driven to meet that end, like the dead ferret exemplified earlier. In his eyes, they lacked purpose, reduced to savages, not really appreciating the gift of evolution and insight that so inspired minds to think or have a sense of purpose. After having thoguht this, the weasel reflected that thought was also dangerous. The discovery of radioactive power created this Zone, after all...
((Or did it? Was it the radiation? Or something more? Also, It's Anna's turn to ask a question, I think... *Shrugs*))
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 13:50:50 GMT -5
Anna listened as he spoke and tried to gain some insight into who he was and where he had come from. "Hum, well, maybe if I ever get back to Indi they'll count this as part of my residency." She thought about it for a minute and then spoke again, "Where are you from, by the way, or am I allowed to ask that question?" She smiled. She was enjoying this now that they had turned from less pleasant conversation. ((the reason i was trying to get you to ask her age is that her birthday is next week and she's forgotten all about it. um also he needs to give her a nickname since she doesn't have one yet in the zone and i was thinking that Indi would be cute. get it Indi-Anna ))
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 14:40:07 GMT -5
((Whoa. Whoa. I was just thinking that her birthday was next week before you even told me. And lol. The nicknames are usually for the 'tough folk', but no one seems to mind. *Shrugs* I have a surprise coming up, though. Hopefully it'll make up for my apparent lack of skill about incorperating certain questions into the conversation...))
"Oh, it's okay if ye ask." Bane said, almost about to take another gulp from his drink but realizing only ice was there. "I, uh, came from New York. I don't think I'd want to go back, though... Too cold." He told the weaselmaid. So she was from Indiana... Interesting. After another half-minute, he thought to ask her something else, not related to her home state. He had been there... once... "So, when's your birthday?'' He asked as a sort of random-fact question. By now most of the curious glances focused towards them turned to ones of jealousy. The bartender moved to refill Bane's glass, and the weasel let him.
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 17:06:31 GMT -5
New York, she thought. Like most other beasts she didn't know much about the state other than New York City itself. She didn't suppose she'd want to live there either. It did sound cold. She wouldn't mind visiting, seeing a Broadway show or something. She was thinking about this looking down into her own empty glass when he asked her about her birthday. She looked up at him wide-eyed, "Oh my gosh, I had totally forgotten. It's coming up. It's . . . " she looked at a grimy calendar that somebeast had pinned up on the wall behind the bar. It featured pictures of scantily clad females but Anna ignored this fact. "It's next Tuesday."
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 18:08:16 GMT -5
"Oh." Bane said, glancing at Anna rather than the calendar itself. His own birthday had already passed, but he didn't really have much purpose to celebrate it. He was too busy, or his budget didn't allow it. The weasel looked around a little, then said, "Really?" Huh, so her birthday was next tuesday. Some party... "Well, I don't think anyone here would care to celebrate." He said in dry humor, of course excluding himself from the 'Don't think anyone here would care' part. The fact of her looming birthday served to give Bane even more sympathy for Anna. He knew he wouldn't want to be in the Zone for his own birthday, or anything of the sort. "And, uh... How old would that make you now, if you don't mind my asking?" He inquired, on the cautious side.
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 18:25:20 GMT -5
Anna's brow furrowed, and she frowned when he said that no one would want to celebrate. Surely someone would, oh I don't know, buy her a drink or maybe Ashlyn would give her a day off or something. She almost didn't hear his question but she didn't mind him asking. She'd never really had a problem with giving out her age it was just a number after all. "I'll be 24," she answered in an offhand manor. "Why, how old are you?"
((that's assuming she turned 18 the summer after she finished highschool, did 4 years of under-grad work and then two years of med school))
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 18:38:33 GMT -5
((Bane meant the people in the bar about the celebration thing...))
Bane grabbed his refilled Coke, eyeing the bartender and knowing that everyone within hearing distance was probably listening to them. "Twenty...'' He tried to remember how old he himself was. "Twenty-six, I think...." He said with a tinge of embarassment at not being able to remember something as simple as his age. He had been twenty-two when he first entered the Zone, so...
((Anna's turn to ask a question, I guess. Sorry for length-of-post...))
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 6, 2008 21:48:18 GMT -5
Anna laughed goodnaturedly, "Don't you know how old you are?" Then her look turned apologetic sensing his embarrassment. She was liking him more and more. She lowered her voice and leaned a little closer to him. Then she placed her paw innocently on top of his, all of this to the general vexation of the bar's other patrons. "I would still like to know your name, when you're ready to tell me, unless you've forgotten that as well." She sat back smiling still oblivious to the attention. "What's your family like?"
((I'm sorry about length too. I'm just trying to think of questions at this point))
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Post by Silas on Jan 6, 2008 22:23:59 GMT -5
Bane felt her paw on his, and looked back at her, as if to say 'I haven't forgotten that.' Her paw felt comfortably warm against the top of his, a truly strange feeling to be had in the Zone. In that paw he usually held his right-paw 1911 pistol... Strange it was, but who was he to say anything of it? As Anna stopped talking and smiled at him, he let the neckfur stop tingling again before speaking. "Well, my family's a good bunch, though I have a step-father now. I have my mom and two sisters too. Seems like everyone's gone downhill a bit, though. Ever since I left my mom's been in some sort of stress, leastways when I call back home. I dunno about the rest nowadays, been too long..." He finished his answer with a gulp of his refilled glass. "And, uh, how's your folks, Anna?" He asked, looking at her eyes now instead of merely her general direction. He clearly liked her company more and more as well, of course not like the gawk-and-stalk soldiers still in the vicinity. Besides, they were in somewhat of a huff now, especially Dmitri, another weasel, the same beast who told him to pay up at the garage for parking.
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