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[redwinekindofgirl]

[Julie looks tired, and grouchy, and she sounds grouchy too.]

So, is this normal? I mean, it's not normal, obviously, but should I be expecting more of this crap while I'm stuck here?

[She rubs under one of her eyes, where lack of sleep is already making shadows.]

Give me a zombie apocalypse any day.

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[voice]

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Julie doesn't answer immediately - she's thinking.]

I guess... they don't really answer any questions about that kind of thing?

[The Null don't sound like the 'get to know you' types.]

[voice]

[circumitus]

Don't know. Maybe? They've answered... some things. But doubt they're interested in camaraderie with anything that isn't their own.

[voice]

[redwinekindofgirl]

Great. No answers from that corner, then.

[But it's a puzzle. Julie likes puzzles. Usually she goes for the ones that aren't trying to kill her, but something about beggars and choosers comes to mind.]

But, the people here... do you mean Hope and them, or other people?

[voice]

[circumitus]

Hope and his kind. Call themselves gods, but the Null consider them parasites.

[A description Rey is by no means one to argue.]

There were people. The ones who inhabited the city before us.

[voice]

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Julie... hasn't yet made up her mind. Her impulsiveness leads her to want to go with option B, but there has to be more to it, right? There has to be.]

Okay, so... why not bring them back? Like they can bring us back?

[You sound like you know stuff, Rey. Don't mind her questions.]

[voice]

[circumitus]

Have wondered that, too. They seemed to care about their former hosts very much.

Don't know why they haven't been resurrected, though. Maybe they can't be, for some reason. Or maybe they don't want to give the Null more lambs for the slaughter.

[Audible shrug. Rey knows stuff, but she still only knows so much.]

[voice]

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Julie's quiet for a few moments, then sighs.]

I guess all I'm going to get from this place is more questions. Thanks for answering some, anyway.

[voice]

[circumitus]

[snort.]

That's pretty par for the course here, but -- sure. No problem.