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"This is Joel. Leave your message, I'll get back to ya when I can."

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Cecil and--Junko. Got it. Do I want to know how you know this?

Cecil really likes the sound of his own voice. He's admitted he works for 'em.

Junko got caught. Killin' a kid.

Jesus. Guess... if that's the worst of us, then... could be worse.

[Cannibals.]

Could be. [It might still be - those are just the ones Joel knows about and has personal experience with. But he doesn't say that.]

The good ones - Raleigh and his people, Clark, Buffy, Elizabeth. Lucrezia and her mother, Vanozza.

Noted all around. [She's pretty sure she's talked to all of these people. Weird. Is this what being a social butterfly is like?]

... how are you doing?

[It's harder to get a sense of his mood when she's not around him all the time.]

I'm - [Fine is probably not a word he should use so much. It's basically lost all meaning when he says it by this point.]

I don't know.

[A big admission.]

I'm glad you're here. Even with how bad this place is.

I'm glad I'm here too, Joel. [Not just for her own sake, but for his, also.] And if you want to talk about stuff [shot in the dark] I'm not exactly busy.

...Yeah. Thanks, kiddo. [If nothing else, he really appreciates the thought. Appreciates that she would do that for him.] You too, alright? The others bein' here - well, I'm still here for you. That won't change.

[She'd do anything for him.

Except she's not really ready to talk about what happened at home, or how she feels about their search for the Fireflies coming to an abrupt halt, or how hard it is for her to figure out her place here.]

Yeah. We stick together.

Damn right we do.

[He'd do pretty much anything for her, too, and Sarah and the others being here won't ever change that.]

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