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[The feed clicks on and we can see an image of a man's face. His bright eyes are wide with something like curiosity, and he's kind of grinning as he turns the device in his hands with a low whistle.]

Man, this is way fancier than any equipment I ever got at work. It's the swankiest walkie-talkie I've ever seen! [He gives an amused laugh, then

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Even with the mysterious magical objects known as technology, there still can be a lot of miscommunication mishaps.

[ Yep. Take it from him, he has a lot of experience with that, and aliens with lame voyeuristic technology. ]

But since you came from a castle, you must be from the ye old medieval times, right?

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Ah, truer words were never spoken. [Well, maybe not never, but details, details. And then he shakes his head.] Ah? Oh, no, it ain't that kind'a castle. We had big computers and stuff, just nothing quite so... [Half-shrug.] portable. Nothing that could do anything quite like this, anyway.

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[ Oh. John felt kind of disappointed. But on the other hand, his imagination tends to take him to wild places, so it's not big deal. ]

Hehe, those sound pretty old, dude! But welcome to the not-so-future, I guess?

I am John and I have no idea where the ice cream store is. [ A small friendly shrug. ] Maybe you can google it?

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Uh, thanks? I guess. [Is he really that behind the times? He thought he did a decent job of keeping up with what's hip with the kids. Well, can't win 'em all...

[He grins a bit then.] Nice to meet you, John. I'm Axel; got it memorized? [And then he blinks.] ... Google? [Now there's a funny word.]

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Axel, like the car part. [ Another string of amused hehe's. ] I gotcha.

And yes, google is a site you can use at your disposal when you want to search for something. Anything, really! This includes real life locations.

Click on this link and type in whatever.

[ SENDING: http://www.google.com/ ]

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The car part...? [He scratches his cheek, confused. He's seen a car, but he didn't realize there was a part called an Axel axle. Curiouser and curiouser. He looks a bit intrigued them.]

Ah, so... it's like an electronic encyclopedia or somethin'? That's handy~ [He fiddles with the NV a moment, trying to figure out how to bookmark the information, or at least make a note of it, but WHAT IS ALL THIS NEWFANGLED TECHNOLOGY? Okay, forget it, he'll figure it out later.]

So tell me John... where you from? [He kind of wonders if he ever visited your world on a mission.]

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Yep, basically!

[ Then he quietly watched and examined Axel's face as the guy supposedly fiddled around with his NV, already regretting on looking too hard because the rad tattoos at one point reminded him of dad's stupid clowns and his brain recoiled harshly. It took him a few seconds to realize he had been asked a question. ]

Oh, well...

[ There was once a young 13 year old boy with stranger danger issues. This boy wasn't one of them. ]

I came from Washington, it's the state right below where we are now. It was a kind of quiet and typical neighborhood, until it got crashed by a meteor anyway. [ A thoughtful pause. ] Twice.

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Washington... [A pause. Hm.] Nope, don't think I've ever been there. [And then a headtilt and a surprised face.] Meteor? Wow, sounds... exciting. [He scratches the crown of his head and then absently cracks the knuckles of one hand.] Twice seems a little coincidental, don't you think?