[ A new engineered unit? No one would miss him? His word choice is starting to give her pause, and it shows in the way her eyes narrow, lips pressing together momentarily. He moves on, so she doesn't have a chance to question him further about it, but suffice to say, her suspicions are piqued. Whoever's doing this "deployment" sounds more like they're using him as a tool....]
Yeah, yeah, it happened when a big meteor hit the planet. There was nuclear war over resources afterwards.
[ Which she says with a shrug — this all happened long before she was born, so she doesn't have any real stake in it, nor does she know much of the details. ]
This contamination from the meteor still affects the planet today, but for the most part, I've been doing okay. I'm alive, aren't I? [ Can't ask for much more than that, when she lived on a knife's edge in the poorest, most dangerous part of society post the apocalypse.] What's it like where you came from, then? You just made it sound like there's some kind of war.
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Yeah, yeah, it happened when a big meteor hit the planet. There was nuclear war over resources afterwards.
[ Which she says with a shrug — this all happened long before she was born, so she doesn't have any real stake in it, nor does she know much of the details. ]
This contamination from the meteor still affects the planet today, but for the most part, I've been doing okay. I'm alive, aren't I? [ Can't ask for much more than that, when she lived on a knife's edge in the poorest, most dangerous part of society post the apocalypse.] What's it like where you came from, then? You just made it sound like there's some kind of war.