Receiving his meal and an overcoat, Xerox started to eat. [i]Wonder where Rue is .... And how long it will ...[/i] His thoughts were abruptly broken when the guards came back. Starting to shiver again, for appearance sake. [i]Why are they back?[/i] he wondered, when they approached Duncan's prison. Confused, he listened to them, asking Duncan about the President's assassination, and with an answer, they suddenly offered to help them out. In return they wished to come to Garden. It seemed too good a chance for the Seeds, was it a trap? Duncan accepted the offer, leaving Xerox only to follow the leader's command.

When his own door was open, Xerox was handed ... a spoon. It would of been different if it was one of HIS spoons, but ... an ordinary spoon was all he got. In fact it was rusty and bent. Wasn't going to really help or last long. Sighing, he walked out in his coat and with his spoon. The others were requesting knives and even talking about junctions. Xerox was about to jump into the conversation when Rachel spoke to him, [color=39b54a][b]“Seriously Xerox, I told you to come train with me under the waterfall... if you did, you weren't going to be shivering like a lief now!”[/b][/color] Rachel said and shook her head in disbelieve.[color=39b54a][b]” I go on a mission for a while and that's what happen to you and your training. Once we get back, I'm going to bring you back into shape.”[/b][/color]

Xerox could only momentarily look at her with confusion. He had stopped shivering, since he was no longer required to, but her use of words .... shocked him. Looking over her, he had noticed her knees shake very subtly. [color=aqua]"Shivering like a lief? Shivering like happily? Shivering like gladly? I don't quite understand what you mean by that, but in the first place, I was pretending to shiver. Are you sure you are alright?"[/color] He replied with concern, turning his body, stretching and making sudden turns to crack bones. A groan of relief came out as he could finally stretch out. Since Xerox didn't button his lab coat, he didn't button the overcoat, leaving his toned body visible to everyone else. He wasn't buff or bulky, but he had a fairly fit and decently exercised body. Half of it was due to Rachel pestering him to train. The other half was due to some of the work put into building/inventing. Walking passed Rachel, he whispered, [color=aqua]"You don't need to act so tough. If you feel too weak, let me help carry you."[/color]

Walking passed, Xerox approached the others. [color=aqua]"Your lucky to even still have junctions. I have to fight completely driveless. No weapon, nothing. Not even my glasses."[/color] He tried to move his body, but he couldn't produce quite the same speed or strength. Nonetheless, Xerox was quite adept at not utilizing the junction buffs. During his free time building/inventing, he tried to avoid using junctions. Turning to Fresno, Xerox asked, [color=aqua]"Do you know if there was a moomba captured with us? And where he might be? Also, wouldn't it be wiser to get our weapons/equipment before hitting the control room upstairs? Of course, if it is further and more heavily guarded then that would be a different story. But at least if we had our weapons, our chances of escape would rise quite dramatically I'd assume."[/color]

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I know it's probably a typo or could even be another language. But lief in English actually means happily or gladly. Interesting isn't it? So I'm rolling with it as an excuse to show that Rachel might not be in the best condition.
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