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[10_20_15_5_50]

[Sam's collected a handful of cards---some fancy, some simple---and she shuffles through them, one eyebrow up. Still shuffling, she looks to her drone to address it, and the whole of Haven.]

I've gotta say, this something of a mind-screw. I've been here... Seventy-six days. Damn.

[She's taken aback, at least a little, by the tally, but shrugs after swearing and soldiers on.]

That's not the thing that throws me. The thing that throws me is having had Valentine's seventy-six days ago! Keeping my calendar, we'd be two days out of April.

Comments

[10_20_15_5_50]

[She tries. And it's hard to say how serious she is in answering]

Compelling characters and a gripping plot?

[though one thing is certain: Breakdown's little friend has a wiseacre streak she's unabashedly embraced.]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

Some of them have that.

[Yeah, and he’s come to like that about her.]

[10_20_15_5_50]

So that's one 'why'. And, I guess, incredulity's another if some show is just unbelievably bad. I've seen some of those. Since you've seen a fair few horror movies, I bet you have too.

[clearly, it is the cornerstone of her winning charm]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He lets out a laugh.] Yeah, some of those drive in horror movies fit that category for sure.

[Clearly]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Okay, important question time. Out of all the Earyh movies you've seen, horror and everything else, which did you think were the best and the worst?

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[OOooooo boy...that's, um...ah...he suddenly looks a little...uncertain of what to say. He just shrugs.]

Uh...specific movie you mean? Not really sure I could pick one.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Top contenders, then? I really liked Memento.

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He shrugs. No really, he’s not sure he could pick one out, they all so different. Name one and another just comes to mind that’s just as good or “better”, only for another to come to mind that’s “better” than the last. Genre? That’s easier to answer...technically. She’d just have to wrestle the answer out of him is all...]

I dunno. Don’t think I’ve seen that one though.

[10_20_15_5_50]

If I have half a chance, I'm going to get you to watch it. It's really, really good. Good enough I'll even refrain from making remarks while it's on... until you see it a second time, which you will want to.

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He gives her a little smile.]

Sounds good. Let me know when you find it.

[10_20_15_5_50]

If I find it. Given all the shows existing and the random samples made available to us only now and then, I might not have the time to.

[Shrug]

[but she's still got a grin]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

You checked the warehouse? I mean...supposedly things have been randomly dropped here for centuries now...

[shrugs....completely forgetting about how Dirge has taken over there...]

[10_20_15_5_50]

I've been sneaking a peek now and then, but I try not to be too long, or too often.

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

Why? Wait...Dirge...right, he kind of claimed the place, huh?

What if I went with you?

[10_20_15_5_50]

Yeah... and that would be awesome.

[locked]

I've still been in for stuff, since there's some I do need and Dirge can go get bent, but I've been trying to be sensible about it. Having a really big friend escorting me would make that much easier.

[locked]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He shrugs.]

Yeah, no problem. I can handle him. [He thinks.]

[locked]

[10_20_15_5_50]

This is also awesome, as my own odds are a little iffy.

Can I also consider you an emergency contact if I'm out minding my own business and then there's suddenly Dirge and the situation goes south?

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[smirks.]

Yeah, call me any time.

[locked]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Thanks. A person can ever have too many emergency contacts for this sort of thing.

...

Our lives are so strange.