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[brb_napping]

Hey look everybody, I found a gun!

Whoa... I think it's real.

[pause. it just occurs to him now, just having regressed mentally, too... that he's not home any more.]

Uh... hello? Where am I?

[yeah... have fun, hometrail. half your defence troop or so is tiny now.]

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voice;

[brands]

You sure it's real? I wanna see.

[brb_napping]

I think so... All right. But it's mine! I promise I'll be careful.

voice;

[brands]

You better be careful; I don't wanna get my head blown off or nothin' like that. If it's yours, d'you know how to hunt?

I've got a spear! But I can't carry it yet...

[brb_napping]

[annnd here his voice lightens up!]

Promise!

No, you don't hunt with a gun like this. You kill aliens with it.

You have a spear? Seriously?

[brands]

[It doesn't take long for her to agree.] Okay.

...What's an alien?

Yeah, I sure do. It's pretty big, and it's got blades on both ends. It's gotta be mine 'cause it has my name on it.

[brb_napping]

So it's a present from somebody? [screw this, this shit is sold. you're a bro now!]

[butttt here he becomes critical again.] Aliens are on the news all the time. Don't you know about the war?

[brands]

It's gotta be. It's too big for me, but I've got it propped against a wall now. You can look at it, if you want.

[indignant] 'Course I know about the war! Cocoon's always comin' down to Gran Pulse and messing stuff up, that's why our l'Cie are gonna beat them. [a beat.] But I've never heard of an alien. That some kinda Cocoon weapon?

[brb_napping]

Thanks!

[and pause. gd it what.] What language is that?

voice;

[brands]

You're welcome!

[Uhh.] Pulsian? Don't you know what a l'Cie is?

[brb_napping]

No, what is that? I don't know that language!

voice;

[brands]

A l'Cie is...uh, well, a soldier made by the fal'Cie -- those are our gods. Sorta. Cocoon's the land up above Gran Pulse, where I live, and they send their stupid l'Cie down to Pulse to screw stuff up. That's why the war's going on.

[brb_napping]

That's not why there's war! There's war because the aliens attacked us and want to kill us! What planet are you from?

[brands]

That doesn't sound right...

I'm from Gran Pulse. Where are you from? [suspiciously:] You're not from Cocoon, are you?

[brb_napping]

I'm from Luna - that's the moon, if you're from Earth. Although I don't think that's any place on earth I know. What's Cocoon?