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[ The feed on the screen today displays both a strange sight and from a strange angle; it appears to be a view from the top of a building in Heropa (from what other scenery suggests), angled in such a way to capture an alleyway -- and the walls that frame it -- below.

On the ground there's a yellow spray-painted silhouette of a woman, her hair a wild, spiraling cloud that also spreads over part of the walls; in the shapes of her hair appear numerous eyes, painted in green, an there are red poppies growing from the ground precisely where her face would be.

Also, the camera is being held upside down.

Pablo himself doesn't speak immediately, although the view on the screen shifts a little as he moves the arm holding the communicator, giving a glimpse of the fire escape that he's lying on. ]

I found that here this morning. [ Almost definitely his doing, but he doesn't remember doing it. ] It reminds me of my sister, actually -- it's her birthday today.

[ His twin sister, if he's mentioned her. ]

We haven't seen each other in a few years, but I uh, I always try to do something anyway... I think it's nice to have rituals like that, you know? Um, or in general. But I think it can help, like, keep people close to you even when they're not. Does anyone else have those?

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Oh-- right. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense, most people don't like to feel alone. At least, I think they don't.

No. And I don't, either, myself.

Me either. There's so many things I feel like you can only learn from talking to other people. And, um-- conversation's supposed to be good for the soul.

Are you very lonely here?

[ He considers that. ]

I don't know, I can be happy almost anywhere. People are always interesting, even if I don't know them yet.

What about you?

Of course I am.

How long have you been here?

Six months, nearly. Not so long as some. We've got the ones who've been here for years.

Years is pretty hard to imagine. I wonder how people usually handle that... uh, aside from things like this.

[ Rituals, routines, and what not, that is. ]

But there has to be some benefit to it, too. Like, um, the experience.

Most of the ones I talk to are the ones who are happy about it. I couldn't tell you whether or not they started out that way.

The experience, yeah, the technology. It's interesting. This is the only time I'm gonna have a chance to watch a DVD.

A lot of people probably start new lives in that amount of time. It's easier to do than in other places, at least. Which uh, is good.

Oh wow, really? Then, do you have a favorite one so far?

Ocean's Eleven was a good one.

Is that a documentary?

[ He is not... very savvy to these kinds of things... ]

It's fiction. It's about a group of men who rob a casino.

Oh. Okay. [ A pause, then: ] So, are action movies your favorite? I've never really seen any, but-- I feel like they'd have to be super exciting if you've never watched other movies before, either.

I've seen movies, but they're very different where I'm from. They're monochrome, and they haven't got the voices - just music, and little cards to let you know what the people on the screen are saying.

So, like how they used to make them, right? I always thought it'd be neat to see more of those... I feel like, uh, the story would probably be clearer, in a lot of cases. Do you prefer either to the other?

The new ones. Yeah. More variety.

What do you think about cartoon movies? Do you like those?

Animation? Sure, yeah.

[They didn't have the connotation of being just for kids, in his day.]

I've got some of the older ones on DVD now - the ones from my time.

[ Pablo doesn't think they are either, but that's just his vocabulary for them. ]

Yeah, it's really nice when you can find things here that you also liked before. I only have one movie, but there's something about knowing that it's there.

Yeah? What have you got, then?

The Wizard of Oz. Have you seen that one?

I have, yeah. I own it. It's not from so far ahead of me - fifteen years, I think.

What did you think when you first saw it? No matter how many times I do I always find it pretty inspiring.

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