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Good thing. We both made it somewhere safe.

Guess Reims ain't exactly made a great impression on her, though.

[ At least Max was in one piece, which was all he could really ask for after a disaster like that. ]

You need anything?

I don't think it made a great impression on any of the new people.

[She's in one piece, and she's grateful that he is, too.]

The people who showed up and got killed. Do you know if any of them have come back?

The ones that turned into dust, ya mean? Nah, ain't seen a one of 'em. And I ran into a couple.

[ """a couple""" ]

I think whatever they were, they disappeared with the storm.

No, more the...new people who showed up like us. And died out there.

Can't say. Logically, I'd expect 'em to be in the Reset Room.

Seems like everything's out turned upside down tonight, though.

Yeah this isn't how it usually goes.

[What if that girl hadn't reset?]

Uh

So are you seein' these rainbow bunny rabbits they got hoppin' around?

...possibly?

[She sends him a picture of her currently cuddling a blue rabbit in her arms.]

Oh, great.

[ a moment later, Max would get back a photo of a purple rabbit playing with a bit of string. It was obviously taken at the bar. ]

I don't know how to take care of rabbits. Now I'm gonna need to name this thing.

What're you naming that blue guy?

[ when in doubt look at someone else's test!!! ]

[She laughs when she gets his picture in return. She sorta loves that Majima has also adopted one of the brightly colored rabbit-creatures.]

I don't know how either but the library might have books on rabbit care.

...I haven't come up with a name yet. Leaning toward Blueberry, but...it's not very creative.

Well, ain't like it's gotta happen right away.

Now that I think about it, though, don't rabbits have houses?

[ Hutches. He probably meant hutches. ]

True. It's probably okay to wait on a name til I can come up with something better than 'Blueberry.'

Um? I don't know, I think people usually keep them in cages?

You can, but these're bigger. They got a little roof and a ramp and everything, so they can hop around.

I bet they got books on 'em at the library.

I've never known anyone who had a pet rabbit but we could meet up and search for books on rabbits.

Alright, yeah.

Now that I got this guy on my hands, I'd feel kinda bad if I ain't know how to care care of him. You free? Ain't got a shift?

I'm free. Already done with my shift today.

[She cuddles her bunny for a moment longer, then carefully places him in her bed, scratching behind his ears.]

Meet you there?

Hell yeah. Let's hit them books.

[ Majima would be waiting out front -- but unlike Max, he'd have his rabbit with him, peeking out of the top of the breast pocket of his suit jacket. WHAT. ]

That was fast.

[Max is afraid to take her rabbit back outside after hearing from various people what happen to them if they get wet. She wonders if she's playing with fire, the way Dustin had been with Dart. But the crazed rabbits had only attacked the other rabbits as far as she knows, so...she's just going to do her best to be super careful with Blueberry.]

Zoomer.

[She smiles a little, shrugging as she peeks back at Majima's rabbit.]

They're so soft.

Y... yeah. They are pretty cute, ain't they?

[ There was something odd about those messages appearing on Max's screen. Maybe it was that Majima wasn't actually typing them, thus explaining why that stutter was included in the device text in the first place. Overexplanation.

Either way, Majima looked mildly embarrassed with himself. ]

Zoomer? What, that a nickname?

[She very much notices that he did not type those messages and she's just kind of staring at him wide-eyed now. Majima, are you learning how to type with your mind?]

[ HE WAS PSYCHIC

(no he wasn't) ]

Oh, uh. I got somethin' back with my other stuff this month.

It's some kinda space-age communicator.

[SHE KNOWS PEOPLE WHO ARE SO HE COULD BE.

She's just staring at him wide eyed, mouth hanging open a little.]

What?

Yeah, it's some kinda crazy future technology. All I gotta do is think what I want to say instead of typin'.

...Actually, I started rememberin' some real weird stuff, too.

But I still don't know how to explain it right.

[She has so many new questions right now, Majima.]

Okay that's frigging amazing. It just showed up at your place? Like all the other stuff?

[...and the rest of that is just concerning.]

Remembering stuff like...bad weird stuff?

Yeah.

[ And since he trusted Max, Majima would pull the gold chain around his neck about, and carefully detach one of the links. At first glance, it'd look like any other segment of jewelry... at least until one examined the edges more closely, saw the delicate seams hinting at something more inside. ]

Not bad, exactly, just... confusin'. I think I was somewhere else, between Tokyo and Reims. You know, like how Eddie and them were on a space station before they came here?

But I ain't remember everything about it.