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[Veronica's face appears on the screen. She's sitting at one of the terminals, leaning to the side. Her entire right arm has been wrapped in bandages, the sleeve pulled up to show a few blood stains.]

...S-so, I woke up in a-a n-new room a w-while ago. I g-guess you a-all have too.

[At least it was surprisingly pleasant. Thanks Zo.]

I h-have to ask, d-does the t-tower feel... different? Like, n-now t-that J-Jason is dead.

[Locked to Rick Dawn]

...[It takes her a moment to collect her voice.] R-rick...? Are... a-are y-you there?

[She leaves the message open for a while, waiting to see if he'll reply.]

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[Ira is all frowns, but that's not exactly unusual for him.]

Different? I don't get what you mean. What happened to your arm?

[Oh, hello you.]

I g-got s-stabbed by about a h-hundred scalpels. It's n-no b-biggie.

Like, t-the t-tower just... f-feels different. You probably w-wouldnt feel it b-because you're new.

You got stabbed that many times and you're okay? You must be tough.

Guess not. I don't really notice anything. What'm I supposed to notice?

It's n-not an exact n-number. [More like twenty or something.] H-hurt l-like hell too.

T-that some people are w-waking up in n-new rooms? Or m-maybe some weird change of p-power.

Oh, so you're not that tough. C'mon!

[Because getting stabbed twenty times and coming away relatively okay is SO UNIMPRESSIVE, SOMEHOW. At least Ira's less of a jerk with the rest of what Veronica says, where his golden eyes light up in realization.]

Oh, hey! Come to think of it, there were some new guys in my room... I think. I barely knew 'em anyway, so I didn't notice. Huh.

Yeah, e-everyone's g-getting new r-roomates it seems.

[Her own eyes light up as she realizes that she's been put down.]

H-hey! I'm p-plenty tough!

Does that happen a lot?

[And then Veronica gets mad, and Ira laughs at her.]

Yeah, right! And that's why you're all beat up, huh?

No.

[Why are you laughing you ignorant potato]

I am! J-Jason w-was like a g-god, and I s-still m-managed to hurt him. And I-I've killed a ton of p-people before!

[Because he's an ignorant potato--is probably the best way to answer that. Not that Ira would appreciate the humor at his expense, because he's a giant hypocrite. Still, the talk about Veronica having murdered before gets his surprised attention.]

Really? I thought you said you were all about helping people.

[Well, at least it got him to stop laughing.]

I-I'm a bodyguard. It's w-what I do.

[Ira makes a face, but he does seem to consider this.]

Huh... I think I get it. Basically, you just take out the people you don't like for the people you do like, right?

B-basically.

[That's.... one way of putting it.]

I'm o-one of t-the b-best there is actually.

Sheesh, why didn't you say so in the first place? You got me going with that goody-goody act last time around.

[It's a Selfish way of putting it! It's thus questionable if Ira really did get it or not.]

Oh yeah? The best compared to who?

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