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Jim just about heard Ralph's question and despite the heat and the smoke he still managed to feel offended. "ME?" (He would have said 'What am I doing? What are you doing?' But wasn't sure he could get it out without choking. "You walk in here like cough cough robot cough and ask me what cough here! Cough to get you out before cough roast!"
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About that time Anni recalled how terrorists might attack this place if she thought the sligs were horrible, and this woman was a native after all. She should probably defuse that issue, even if it meant exposing her lie. "It's not the sligs; they're mostly ok here. There was one horrible one but he left."
She left it at that, still having no inclination to say more.
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OOC: Ok, I didn't get time to post on Friday, but I'm here on Monday just as promised
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Ralph could barely make out what
Jim was saying, but he thought he got the gist of it.
"Well, I think I had a better chance in here than you, I'm not the one struggling to get even one sentence out!
But I've done all I can for now, unfortunately I don't have a built-in fire extinguisher and I can't see one here, though it's pretty hard to see
anything through all this," he waved his hand through the smoke, as if it wasn't already obvious what he was talking about.
"So I agree, let's get out of here," he grabbed hold of Jim's arm and (probably more forcefully than he intended) half lead half pulled the other mudokon out of the smoking room.
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"They're mostly ok?"
Hembar sounded surprised. Normally a place like this would be littered with sligs, very few of whom would have even the tiniest trace of niceness in them. This place
was very strange, the employee count itself was fairly low, but the fact that most of the few sligs that were there were ok came as a bit of a surprise.
She was quiet for a moment, but then she decided to try to change the subject.
Anni probably wouldn't want to talk about anything, but she could only try.
"So how'd you end up working in a dump like this? she asked, then added, "a dump in the nicest possible way of course."