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[debtor]

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[debtor]

[...HOW DOES HE USE THE TEXT FUNCTION these buttons aren't even real. Oh man, did that send...

He takes a deep breath, tries again.]

hello a day perhaps why do you ask/

1/2

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[BOOMERANGED before Allen manages to get his second text out.]

you sleeping or something?

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was just wondering! [ Hypothetically!! ] and thought you'd have a better idea.

[You Victorians don't have fridges, right.]

...no chance it'd still be good after three days, huh.

[debtor]

[Too busy gingerly searching for and picking out letters with a single finger one-at-a-time to look at the first reply! Until after he's sent the second.]

im not sleeping no dont drink it itll make you ill

[THREE DAYS? ARE YOU INSANE why would you even need to ask!?]

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[Ceding too easily, perhaps, for someone who was just asking the question:]

nah, i'm not gonna. it's probably caught zombie germs anyway.

[Hypothetical ones.]

[debtor]

[SUDDENLY CONCERNED]

were you attacked by zombies

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bastards pretty much went after everyone! you held up okay, right?

[debtor]

yes im all right thank you were you hurt

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[Oh, good. He's even managed to (badly) circumvent the awkwardness of simply starting off with HEY WE ONLY TALKED ONCE BUT YOU WERE KINDA COOL, I HOPE THEY DIDN'T EAT YOU.

Before he answers Allen, though:]

...calling work better for you?

[The utter lack of punctuation and line breaks is getting pretty glaring.]

[debtor]

[GOOD JOB. Not that. Allen would have minded...

And calling sounds much easier. He's not even certain where the punctuation buttons are THIS IS REALLY CONFUSING.]

yes

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[Hint: just press ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A.

Brrring brrrrrrring, incoming! And whenever Allen picks up:]

Had some close calls but I'm okay! But man, that was a real mess.

[debtor]

[screams into the abyss

And answers...!]

It was a mess. I'm glad you're okay.

Had... any of the animals gotten inside your flat?

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Yeah... Started with this crazy squirrel running on death and steroids. I thought it was gunning for the cereal 'til it tried eating my face.

[Cereal probably meant to go with the hypothetical milk, which he then proceeded to hypothetically freak the hell out and forget about for three hypothetical days.]

You?

[debtor]

Steroids? A flatmate of mine had brought in a rabbit..

Nobody was hurt, though!

[Except for the rabbit.]

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...That sucks—'bout their rabbit, I mean! It didn't get to 'em too much? I talked to some guy on the network who was pretty torn up over losing his.

[debtor]

She was upset. She was very attached...

But I think she'll be all right, too.

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Yeah... S'better than getting bitten. Man, this's not even the kinda shit they signed us up for.

[debtor]

[Allen pauses.]

Another Transport was the cause of it.

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[A similar pause.]

...Yeah, I saw. They were talking 'bout getting the guy on the network, right?

[debtor]

Mm. His name is Arthas. He had kidnapped a woman, as well.

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Still no news on how that went down, huh.

[debtor]

We rescued her. But he got away.

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—you were there?

[debtor]

Yes. A... man [he has no idea what Koltira was HE LOOKED KIND OF STRANGE, BUT] went after him, and said that others could accompany him. Arthas had infected people and had captured that woman...

[And so Allen heard the siren call of shounen.]

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[Don't head into the endless limbo of hundred-chapter fight scenes, Allen.]

Heard 'bout that part... [ He trails off into a bit of a guilty pause. Somebody was obviously not there when the boss battle went down. ] You guys got her out okay?