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[deal]

[Cassandra glances over before focusing on her wind up music box, and begins slowly turning the handle. Music starts to play, a tune that may be familiar to people from Earth. She's not doing this to play music for everyone though, so she stops after a handful of seconds, looking thoughtful.]

It's funny. You hate home until you've been gone from it long enough, and then you get homesick and home is all you can think about. No matter how shitty it is, you forget about all of the bad things and only care about the people you left behind.

[The music box is picked up and clinched in her hand.]

Do you think it's possible to get a message back to someone? Has anyone tried communicating outside the ship yet? If things like this - [She drops the music box in her hand on the table she's sitting at.] can come through the Ingress to us, we have to be able to send things back through it.

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[It's a little scary, but it's more fascinating. The boys had always told her about old horror stories, used them as an escape from the horror they already lived in. Half the desert had homages to old movie monsters in their imagery, painted on buildings and used in masks. To hear about something real only tugged at her curiosity.]

So you really got zombies to deal with. How? I've heard of 'em but just as stories. Are the real slow and got some kind of a virus? Do ya really have to shoot the brain to keep 'em down?