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[color=00a651][color=00a651]"Are you hungry, too?"[/color][/color]

She knew this man's alien tongue well. Her mothers had used it to vex her occasionally as a child, whenever she'd watched anything too hard-boiled before bedtime and asked about the cool adventures they had taken on as gumshoes. The replies were all in this unintelligible quicksilver dialect that made Kimiko's eyebrow twitch funny.

[color=00a651]"If you want our help..."[/color]

For whatever reason. They had just been walking to McDonald's.

[color=00a651]"...I hope you like McDonald's."[/color]

They would reach their destination.