"How do you know if you're not dead?" Jo asked, coming up behind the other woman and reading the sign. "I think I'm alive, but maybe I'd think that if I was dead too." She already knew she was on Mars, so who knows what other strange things might also be true.
Alice looked the woman over. After seeing that she was unarmed and no easily apparent threat, Alice shrugged. "The distinction's academic, isn't it? I'm walking, I'm talking, I peed earlier and I want off this planet. Call that whatever you want, but I'm going with 'alive'"
"That sounds fair to me," she said, nodding. "What do you want people who aren't dead for? You don't think there are people here who aren't, do you?" She looked around, frowning and wondering if there were ghosts about to jump out at them. She was fairly certain they didn't exist, but she had also been certain she wasn't likely to wake up on Mars either.
“If people are dead and they’ve got two working arms, I suppose we could use their help, too.” Ah! Alice spotted a chair behind a pillar in the corner, and went to carry it over.
“It’s mainly just an attention grabber,” she said, pulling the chair open. “Apparently, an effective one.”
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“It’s mainly just an attention grabber,” she said, pulling the chair open. “Apparently, an effective one.”
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