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Who: Apartment O + you? door is open
When: Day 32, evening
Where: Apartment O
What: family dinner...?

[There is a stew bubbling happily over the fire; leaf "platters" and shish-kebabs(? something-chunks on sticks), salad, a somewhat overcooked stirfry, and a gourd filled with fruit chunks in milky liquid are arranged on the kitchen counter.]

Okay, guys, get it while it's hot!

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It's less work to make somebody else do it.

Then that somebody can just as easily be one of my roommates.

Fine, be that way, but you're still invited.

And I still don't need the help.

Yeah yeah I get it already you're a big badass.

[Going to help himself to one of the plates he's portioned out.]

I can take care of myself. That's all.

And the rest of us that need to trade our skills for what we can't do for ourselves...we just lay down and die, then?

You find people who can hunt but can't cook and make your trade with them.

And what if everybody here was as stubborn as you?

Then you offer it as a trade in the first place and not some suspicious gift, and people might take you up on it.

The only reason it's suspicious is because you're from Sabra.

It's suspicious because people are suspicious.

Which you think because of your trauma.

I am not traumatized.

[Have you been talking to an ice goddess? He looks awfully pissed at that choice of words.]

Yes you are, don't lie.

[Nope, I'm just making assumptions!]

I don't have to lie about this.

Then what WOULD you call Sabra?

A miserable pit of place governed by sadistic megalomaniacs that I would have loved to leave if leaving had entailed being half a day later.

'Half a day later'?

Give or take.

We finally made our move against the ones that governed there. Supposedly, it was successful.

And it obviously messed you up a lot...

In some versions, not everyone survived.

Yeah, I get that. It was traumatic. You're proving MY point.

Would you pay attention? What I'm trying to say is that in some versions, we won. If the gods here hadn't intervened, I would have gotten what I went for in the first place.

How do you know you're from that version?