3rd Attack . voice, spam

[inhell]

[ spam - kitchen/breakfast ]

[ She's on the breakfast shift now. Expect Vegemite, thick slabs of bacon, fried tomatoes, and muesli. Also a somewhat eerie blank expression - work like this is really good for letting her turn off her mind. ]

[ voice ]

It was me. Um. The kitchen.

I don't know if anyone was caught in the explosion. Or if the people around were OK.

..well. Most of you I wouldn't care much.

[ One of Ellie's main skills is not apologizing.

After a moment, she cuts the feed. ]

Comments

[myresponsibility]

Sorry. We really don't have to talk about it, if you don't want.

Is there anything I can do to help? Like, right now? Or anything?

[inhell]

It was just a - long time ago. That's not true anymore.

It's not like I checked a box in school, 'I want to become a guerilla warrior', okay?

[myresponsibility]

I'm pretty sure like, none of us checked a box to end up with the lives we ended up with. No one's gonna like, be pissed that you ended up getting stuck doing something you never thought you would, you know?

I mean, they'll be pissed if you try blowing up the kitchen again, but. I think that's kind of fair.

[inhell]

Some people do.

I'd've been a farmer.

[myresponsibility]

What kind of farmer?

[inhell]

Sheep.

[myresponsibility]

I don't know how great an idea this is, because there's this like, giant wolf on board? [Nymeria. :|] But if you wanted, you could maybe like, get one to take care of here.

I don't know. Can you keep a sheep in an enclosed space like this? I don't really know like, anything about taking care of them.

[inhell]

Better if they've open space. And family.

[ Just like her. ]

But I've hand-raised lambs before.

I don't know why your kitchen doesn't have chooks. - Um, chickens, I mean. Or something. I wouldn't depend on everything magically appearing.

[myresponsibility]

I don't think most people here have a lot of experience butchering their own food.

[inhell]

Collecting eggs from chooks is not brain surgery.

[myresponsibility]

No, but like. I don't think anyone before you had ever done it before. Or if they have, it's not like they've been bragging about it?

[inhell]

Can't be no one.

[myresponsibility]

Most of us are city folk.

[inhell]

Typical.

[ Says the girl who got excited the first time she saw a traffic light. ]

So what city, then?

[myresponsibility]

Well, I'm from New York.

[inhell]

...really big city.

[myresponsibility]

Yeah. I don't think I've ever been around this few people at any given moment in like, basically my entire life.

[inhell]

You should come to Australia. The bush is all open. You can be the only person in sight.

[myresponsibility]

Isn't that weird? Or, lonely I guess?

I mean, I can see it being kind of fun for a while, but I think I'd want to head back at some point.

[inhell]

Nah, it's beautiful.

It's home.

[myresponsibility]

Being here must be kind of weird for you, then. Have you been in the CES yet?

[That's at least got some wide open spaces to explore.]

[inhell]

No. Someone's got to let you in there, and I haven't been keen on making friends.

[myresponsibility]

I could let you in, if you want. There's no guarantee that it'll give you anywhere in Australia when you go in, but sometimes it brings people familiar places.

[inhell]

...it does?

What is it, exactly?

[ Guess who wouldn't read the pamphlet. ]

[myresponsibility]

[GUESS WHO LIKES TO TALK ABOUT CRAZY SCIENCE.]

It's kind of hard to explain? Like, the science doesn't really make sense. You open the door and it's just this huge expanse of open land, with like, nothing man made in sight, anywhere. Even if it takes you somewhere you've been before and there should be like, a house there, it'll just be gone. No foundations or anything. And it seems like it goes on and on forever even though the room doesn't look that big from the outside.

I think people think it's like, a pocket dimension or something, because you can take stuff out of it and they don't vanish, so. But like, just like everything else here, no one knows exactly how it works.