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[doc_holi]

[The feed is showing the side of a building but it's moving around a bit. It eventually shows where the wall meets the ground to reveal... an odd looking helmet. It looks like an astronaut's helmet or something.]

I'm dead. [Finally, a woman's voice is heard.] I'm dead. They're all dead. And the afterlife has cellphones. I don't know what's going on. Maybe I'm in a coma and this is some-

[The red light that cues the phone is recording is finally noticed. She looks at the screen for a second and the viewer can see a beautiful woman with long dark hair, bright green eyes, and... yes, that's a space suit.]

[Not realizing that this feed is being sent out to other devices, she looks around the area for a second, before shutting it off. Maybe she can make a recorded journal or something, but if she's really alive, then she has to figure out how to survive and what's going on.]

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[historyrabbit]

Believe me, many days go by where I'm not wondering if I'm going crazy myself. But there are things here even I couldn't imagine and the pain is too damn real.

[doc_holi]

[She frowns.]

So... I'm stuck here. We all are.

[historyrabbit]

Pretty much, though people do seem to disappear after a while, names disappear off their rooms.

[doc_holi]

Are they killed and people just don't realize it? Or they get lost or-

[She's so confused. None of this is possible. Even the freaking ghosts.]

[historyrabbit]

Only one of us was killed here and he came back months later. He's gone again but this time no death. We'd find the bodies even in inhospitable Russia. Libitina plays those sorts of games.

[doc_holi]

...

I'm sorry. He died then he came back.

Well there are ghosts here... Why not?

[She's accepting the fact that she's going insane.]

[historyrabbit]

[Shaking his head.] He was killed and eaten by Libitina under her master's orders. He didn't even remember it.

[doc_holi]

...

[There's a long pause on her end in which she's just staring at you.]

Are you sure these are ghosts or spirits or... whatever. I've dealt with some things like this back home but nothing on this scale.

[Nothing this elaborate. Maybe this isn't another world and everyone here has been... Well, she's not sure. It's obvious they aren't from her world if no one's mentioned the possibility of these things being EVOs.]

[She really isn't there anymore. Maybe this is life after death. Maybe she did screw up.]

[historyrabbit]

Pretty damn sure, there aren't any Noah here to do this kind of thing. Nor any other kind of supernatural creature.

[doc_holi]

Noah?

[historyrabbit]

Long story, they're not here anyway so it doesn't matter.

[doc_holi]

I guess that's the same with my home. There aren't any EVOs here, are there?

[Or nanties for that matter... Oh, this could be a problem.]

[historyrabbit]

EVOs? [Shaking his head.] Can't say I'm familiar with the name.

[doc_holi]

And no nanites... [Welp.]

I'm a long way from home...

[historyrabbit]

Nanites...? [Forget it.] We all are really.

[doc_holi]

... Right. I guess should be focused on getting settled for now.

What do we do about food? Should I hunt?

[historyrabbit]

We've got food stores built up for the winter, you've come just after the blizzard anyway so what animals were out there might have died or gone somewhere else by now.

[doc_holi]

[Well at least she wasn't here FOR the blizzard.]

Okay.

I'm not bad with a gun. If you need my help with food, I'd be happy to pull my weight, no matter how long I stay here.

[The tone sounds like she doesn't plan to stay long.]

[historyrabbit]

[It wasn't fun. It was very cold.]

I'd talk to Okumura then if you want a gun or if you already have one if you need ammo. But we're kind of limited by what they had available in this town before it perished.

[doc_holi]

I can understand that. Thank you.

[historyrabbit]

No problem. I mean we all have to live here.