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So this is really weird and I shouldn't believe it but the paper thing works so it's true I guess. Have any of you ever run into someone, had a vivid memory of them pointing a gun at you, and then gotten assigned to the same group project with them?

Should this worry me?

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[But was that it? It didn't quite seem right, but for lack of a logical answer, she'd accept that instead.]

Well, that much is obvious.

I think... I might remember how that went. The whole in the woods thing. That I told you not to talk about.

Well if you don't want to talk about it you don't have to although it'd probably help knowing what you know.

[Well, she missed for one, so that was a relief. She nods.]

I think... I was running, although I'm not sure why. Then I ran into you. I also called you something really strange.

It was odd, it was like you wanted to be shot. Just the look, and the things you said. As if your life didn't matter at that point. It was... unnerving.

Yeah... I wasn't really planning on mentioning that part. There was a lot of despair on my end. And guilt. But I don't know what for.

Like you said, if we're going to figure out why we're suddenly getting these visions, then we have to be plain with each other. Do you remember anything else?

Not really, that's about all I've got.

I remember a little more. I think after that, some strange... thing, jumped out. And you fought it, to save me.

[Yes, this was as awkward for her as she was anticipating it would be for her.]

And that's all I can remember.

...yeah ok that sounds like something I'd probably do.

[That takes her by surprise.]

Really? You, fight?

Yeah I've been doing Judo since I was three. I got to the intercollegiate semi-finals last year and then the Thrasher dislocated my shoulder and knocked me out of the competition.

[She blinks a few times, looking impressed.]

That's... I was not expecting that.

Guess I don't seem the type. I try to keep in good shape, Judo's one of the ways I do it. I go running a lot, that's what I was doing when we met in the woods.

[Where is he hiding all of this, really. He didn't exactly look scrawny, but...]

So just to get this straight, Judo's the one with all of the throwing and grappling, right?

Yeah. I've done some other styles too but that's the one I've stuck with the most.

Huh. Yeah, I would have never expected that. You really don't look the type.

And here I thought the giant martial artist ponytail gave me away.

That wasn't the first thing I thought of when I saw it, honestly. Although really, I don't know what my first thought was, so there is that.

I guess you could say I'm not a typical art student.

Apparently not. I guess that's what I get for trying to judge a book by its cover. Although that makes me seem pretty boring in comparison. I guess, considering the circumstances, someone has to be.

I'm not that exciting myself, really, I'm sure you're plenty interesting. Med students save lives after all. Us artists try not to end up at McDonald's.

I can only hope that I can do something useful, after all of the student loan debt I'll be accumulating over the next six or seven years.

[She shrugs.]

Sorry, unfortunately what you see is what you get. No special skills. Although I've been called the fastest needle in the east.

Don't doctors make six figures?

[Damn, that one usually got at least a chuckle from the people in her department, and questions from anyone else.]

That depends on what they choose to do. Usually the ones you look at who make large sums of money are surgeons or doctors who own their own practices. Not everyone who studies medicine will go directly into hospital work. Some choose to teach, others to go places where they feel they are needed. Those positions don't pay nearly as well.

[Yeah Daniel doesn't like the needles not touching that one]

I guess that makes sense. And here I thought you med students were secure at least.

Like I said, it all depends on what you feel called to do. Well, if you believe in that kind of thing. There are some people who are in it for other reasons, obviously. Family practices or obligations; some like the fast-paced feel of a hospital. It depends on the person.

[No need to say where she sits on that.]

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