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<Nearby, in the Guild guards' training area. Chris and Fernanda have been going at it for a while>
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Chris: <pants> ... Should we call it for now?
Fernanda: Yes. <huffs> I can't really concentrate today, anyways.
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Chris: Is something wrong?
Fernanda: Well ... kinda? My sister had this argument with one of our neighbors. They don't like that I'm working at the Guild.
Chris: I see. Did ... something happen?
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<they enter the locker room>
Fernanda: Nono ... everything's fine. It's just ... I KNOW some people are just jerks, but it feels like ... there are MORE than usual. ... Don't you think?
Chris: I know what you mean. People are getting more hostile towards us. Even more than before, that is.
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Chris: How are you and your sister holding up in all of this? With ... your father and all ... ?
Fernanda: ... we're doing okay. Not GREAT, but ... we're going on. We HAVE to, right?
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Fernanda: ... I still can't really believe what happened.
Chris: Yeah.
Fernanda: And I still can't believe Eddis died without me getting to PUNCH HIS STUPID HEAD OFF PERSONALLY!!
Chris: Let's just be glad he's gone. It makes this world A TINY BIT OF A BETTER PLACE.