We're not in the Kasugayama Bomb Shelter anymore, Dorothy.

[positively]

Oh, my-- it sure is dark in here, isn't it? It's a good thing I've got a flashlight.

Is anybody else lost down here? Stay where you are and call out, and I'll come to you with the light. I've learned my lesson about letting people run into cave walls in the dark!

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[positively]

Well, I'm not usually alone, and it's easier to be brave if you have your friends with you!

[bythehorns]

That sounds like, a thing I think too.

Are your friends, here with you?

[positively]

No, they're not here. I was looking for them when I found you.

Which I guess makes you my friend, since you're who I found!

[bythehorns]

Wow, uh, that's, very sudden, but, it is nice of you...

[are we close enough to see each other yet? probably you can see me first, since you've got the light and I'd be looking right into it]

[positively]

There's no reason not to be nice, is there?

[let's see here -- wow, you do not look like any of the trolls she's seen before. you're smaller! and you have horns! and you are adorable instead of creepy! <3]

Oh wow, none of the trolls I've seen before have had horns!

[bythehorns]

Wow, uh, that sounds, very strange, to me, because, all the trolls I know, have horns...

[positively]

Well, I bet there are lots of trolls out there, and I've only met a few. There are lots of humans who don't look like me, so it makes perfect sense to me.

[bythehorns]

I guess, that makes sense. There are, a lot of trolls, or at least, there were.

[peers]

You look, a little like, one of the humans I've talked to a little.

[positively]

There were? Like, there are lots of trolls where you're from and there just aren't a lot of them here? [hopefully you don't mean something bad happened to them all :( ]

Oh? I hope in a nice way!

[bythehorns]

Uh, like that, but also like, our world got destroyed, but you probably, don't want to hear about that...

She was, really nice, and I liked her a lot. Probably, I think, she was younger than you, but, I'm not really sure, since I don't know that much, about humans.

[positively]

D-Destroyed? [what is up with worlds getting destroyed, anyway? maybe that's what everybody here has in common?]

Mine... actually did too, but we got it back. So if you want to talk about it, I'll listen!

[bythehorns]

That's pretty encouraging, to hear that, because maybe, we'll figure out how to fix it too. Everyone was, trying pretty hard.

[positively]

Just... be careful. A lot of people got hurt fixing mine. It was worth it, but at the same time... the person who got hurt most was someone I care about a lot.

[bythehorns]

I'm sorry to hear that, about your friend. I hope they're, okay now.

[positively]

He's okay now. Thank you.

[bythehorns]

...I guess maybe, uh, we should be trying to figure out, what this sidequest is for, so we can, get out of the cave.