(@phantomguild ; Acacia + Echo)
"Well, isn't this quite the sorry lineup we have here? I'mma be real with you all, you look Arc-awful."
"Echo!! ... But yea, harsh as it can be, you all look like you've been walking for several days straight. If it's alright for me to ask, where did you all even come from...?"
Hope takes the ask while the others slept!
@phantomguild
There was a second of hesitation. A bit much for folks recently arrived, but neighbors do this, right?
"Every second of life would stay in the... Inside- lab. The In-- ... lab was simply the whole world, closed to everything else beyond. Even when one labcoat slipped up and told someone of the Outside, 20 years ago.. No one still got to see what it was.
I wasn't aware at the time.. But there was a planned breakout. Someone was just supposed to distract the labcoats, the dark-furred Eevee said... but somehow the building got set aflame. The flames never got to anyone, though it left everything in complete chaos. I just happened to join this group in the middle of that... Thanks to the tall one noticing me.
From there, the scraggly one was the only one with a clear direction, so we came here.
We're not the only ones that managed to get out... But I hope someone didn't get left behind."
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The other two seemed to stir after this. They likely still would be able to pick up where this conversation left off, if desired.
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