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Free stuff outside level 7 cabin 2. I don't want it.
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[She's still feeling the lingering aches from being ill, but she doesn't pay any attention to it. She has a few good meals in her and too much energy to just sit there. She wants to know what happened. Did any of them make it? Are they all dead? How did Colonel Finley feel about it?
And the sight of her own bedroom appalls her.
So she drags out big plastic bins from her closet and starts tossing stuff inside.
Snow globes and fancy headbands. Old clothes. Who needs that many tops? A lamp that doesn't work. A collection of smooth stones; a glass bottle fused shut.
Beaded bracelets. (Except for one that reads BEST, because she knows who had the other one, who had the half that read FRIENDS and for a few minutes she stares at it, unable to move.) Cheap stuffed animals. A whole series of trophies from hockey. A plastic unicorn filled with layers of colored sand. Old ugly sweaters and figurines and half-used collections of colored pencils. Hand-dipped candles, irregular and bulging and leaning noticeably to the side.
She keeps all her books.
She throws away baskets of souvenir paperweights and keychains and cheap jewelry.
And she drags it all out into the hallway, leaving it there in piles.]
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[She's still feeling the lingering aches from being ill, but she doesn't pay any attention to it. She has a few good meals in her and too much energy to just sit there. She wants to know what happened. Did any of them make it? Are they all dead? How did Colonel Finley feel about it?
And the sight of her own bedroom appalls her.
So she drags out big plastic bins from her closet and starts tossing stuff inside.
Snow globes and fancy headbands. Old clothes. Who needs that many tops? A lamp that doesn't work. A collection of smooth stones; a glass bottle fused shut.
Beaded bracelets. (Except for one that reads BEST, because she knows who had the other one, who had the half that read FRIENDS and for a few minutes she stares at it, unable to move.) Cheap stuffed animals. A whole series of trophies from hockey. A plastic unicorn filled with layers of colored sand. Old ugly sweaters and figurines and half-used collections of colored pencils. Hand-dipped candles, irregular and bulging and leaning noticeably to the side.
She keeps all her books.
She throws away baskets of souvenir paperweights and keychains and cheap jewelry.
And she drags it all out into the hallway, leaving it there in piles.]
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[ He convinces himself it's because he's a warden and doesn't want anything too useful falling into the wrong inmate hands... but honestly? He's just curious and has picked through trash piles a lot in his years. When he has a stuffed bunny with floppy, pale ears on the top of a pile he realizes this is not what he thought it was. ]
Uh-- ollo?
[ He calls because Ellie's in her room, maybe prepping to bring more out, but-- now he feels less like a scavenger and more like an intruder. ]
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[A little hostile. Her hair is roughly pulled back, her hands on her hips. She appears in the doorway.]
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[ She's very young. ]
Uh. Ollo. I'm Megamind. A warden here. I don't think we've met before.
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I'm Ellie.
[ Her tone is flat. Inmate will probably be obvious, she thinks. ]
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The tap of metal boots come around the corner far before the man does. He strides up to the pile, white-haired and very tall, in black medieval armor, and stares down at it with cold disdain. Plastic unicorn. Maybe he could use that for... something.
No, probably not. He flicks it aside, along with a few more items on top. Clothes. Toys. This looks like a normal child's things. He feels a little embarrassed to have considered the unicorn.
"Is this everything?"
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"No. There's some more. But it's girl stuff. Don't know if you'd be interested." Because hulking figures in medieval armor generally don't want to collect the same stuff Ellie does. And she's keeping the useful stuff: toolkits, torches, cricket bat. Hockey stick. Plenty of things you can do to someone with those.
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This is a lie, he is always expecting weapons. He glances up to make sure Ellie doesn't have an obvious knife on her, in fact.
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If she had a knife, she wouldn't be obvious about it. It would be in her sock, or under her jacket. She doesn't, but. If she did.
"I was shooting a rifle when I died," she says. "It didn't turn up with me."
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His dog Digby, however, is out and about. He doesn't hear Ellie's announcement - and wouldn't understand it if he did, being a dog - but he does happen upon the big plastic bins. Sticking his head in curiously, he withdraws a shirt, holding it in his jaws.
With shirt in mouth, he trots into Ellie's room and lays down on her floor, calm and obedient.]
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Digby, right?
[ She settles by him, leaning back against the bed, reaching out to stroke her fingers through his fur. ]
Good dog.
...d'you like fetch, or are you a bit too old?
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Oh, he'll fetch, but he'll do it at his own pace]
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Last time I held a dog, it was a little - corgi, you know? Last I saw her, she was wandering around outside. And then...
Big explosion.
If she lived, I'd guess she's still running.
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Ellie?
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Yeah? Oh, yeah, hi.
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[Bea doesn't invite herself in, just leans against the half-open doorway and watches for now. This drive of Ellie's to purge herself of her past makes sense, but she remains convinced there'll be a point where she wants the familiarity back.]
It's tough to settle in, isn't it?
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[She doesn't want to settle in.]