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[goodluckkobra]

[ Kobra has a little bit of grease on his face and his hair is greasy and sticking to the side of his head. Anyone who's been in the Ingress repairing would have seen him helping there. ]

Hey, so like... how does everyone feel about runnin'? 'Cause they already think we're guilty, anyway, and I don't care much if they think we're cowards, either. Who the fuck are they, anyway? The bravery police? Don't got nothin' to prove to these guys that's worth gettin' half our crew ghosted.

[ He doesn't think he's a coward, of course, but he didn't live this long not knowing when to cut and run, especially when there's children involved. Everyone's on board, so they're not leaving anyone defenseless if they just go. What's the point of staying and fighting? ]

Oh and they're potentially listenin' to everything we say on here, so might not wanna be makin' battle plans on anything that could be listened in on. Just sayin'.

[ He shrugs. ]

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[vaccinations]

Sometimes running is good.

But if they just keep hunting you then you're fucked. At some point you gotta stop running.

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[goodluckkobra]

No, you gotta run faster and smarter and you keep doing it. Trust me. All we gotta do is get where we're goin' on this ship and then we all get to go home, anyway.

[vaccinations]

I spend most of my life fucking running. And some shit you just can't run from if you ever wanna stop running. At least for a bit.

[goodluckkobra]

Can't remember a time I wasn't running. That's how you get good at it.

[vaccinations]

Yeah. But if you keep running you might never get where you're trying to go. Then what's the point of being good at it?

[goodluckkobra]

Who says you're trying to go anywhere? Life ain't always about findin' an ending.

[vaccinations]

I'm going somewhere. There's things I have to do back home. I'm sure these guys have stuff to do. Sometimes, you just gotta do what you gotta do in life if the ending is clear.

[goodluckkobra]

Well obviously I'm tryin' to get home, too. I'd fuck right off this ship tomorrow if I wasn't. Thought you were bein' all metaphorical like everyone else. You just gotta keep goin' in the right directing. Ain't that hard.

[vaccinations]

Yeah but what if by running away we just end up getting further and further from getting home? Hell, maybe we'll just get chased all over the fucking universe.

[goodluckkobra]

Then I don't know. Maybe we should just kill them before they kill us and get going.

[ He's getting agitated, more about the fact that she's called him on his shitty logic than anything else. ]

Spent my whole life runnin' but I ain't ever had to run in a specific direction. I don't know.

[vaccinations]

Maybe. Sometimes that's what you gotta do if you wanna keep moving. Or live.

[She notices his agitation and then pulls back. She's not here to fight even if she's got her own opinions.]

What were you running from?

[goodluckkobra]

What passed for the law. We were all wanted, but we couldn't just leave. Someone had to keep fightin'.

[ He knows that it gets them all killed, but he wouldn't change a thing. They had to keep Girl safe and they had to keep pushing back or no one else would. ]

[vaccinations]

...I get it. Sorta. I'm.... kinda on the run too. But it feels like it's from pretty everyone and everything in the entire world except us.

[They don't want her. Or well, the do in the zones because she's infected. Hunters just want to take her stuff. The Infected, well, killing is what they do.]

[goodluckkobra]

Who are you running from?

[ Normally he wouldn't ask so quickly, but she already asked him. ]

[vaccinations]

Shit.

Almost everyone in the whole fucking world. Or at least it feels that way. Hunters. Infected. The military.

[goodluckkobra]

Back up. Infected with what?

[ He needs some context for this shit. ]

[vaccinations]

So about... 20 years ago. I wasn't even born yet. Some fungus like suddenly appeared all over the world and it infects you and fucks with your head. You forget who you were and just want to... eat people.

Most everyone is like that now.