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You believe her when she says Corporate planned to black you out for the Expansion, given it's done for robot installations and daily repairs.
Before stepping in, a weird question eats at you on her appearance, and it more or less blurts out.
<inquiry>Do you know another living puppet around here? Friendly with a bell on its head?
>"Oh? I'm guessing you mean body-wise? No, but I'm not surprised. Remnant fuses to objects, and if it's a tiny amount lingering, few things are as easy to merge with as a wooden or stuffed doll. That's why robots require so much work--!!
"...We should definitely not be talking about this as the Sun rises, we don't want your Boss to know what we know. Inside or not?"
<statement>Yes, we're coming. JJ?
>"Of course, um, I'm JJ, thank you for the invitation."
JJ gives a curt bow, which Charlie laughs at.
>"I'm flattered, and painfully curious about you, but you may want to be careful about having such kind manners when Skin gets here. He's more the sort to smoke, grunt, and cuss a lot. Like... A lot. Sometimes at me."
Charlie stands by a small series of metal steps leading inside of the van. This is not handicap friendly, and she winds up grabbing your back and helping you up. Or tries to, truthfully she is mostly cotton and has all the physical strength of a doll.
You realize now that her weapon had to have been tailor made for her. Both in lightness to carry, and that the trigger has no guard to accommodate her lack of proper fingers.
The inside of the van is... big.
There is a Poker table in the center, surrounded by rotating chairs. At the back is a plastic mesh with a zipper door, behind it an arsenal of colorful, cartoony looking weaponry. At the front is of course, the driver's seat, but also a working sink and what appears to be a chemistry lab. Pink and green LED lights run along the bottom of the vehicle, and 'Two of Hearts' is playing on the radio, seemingly on loop.
>"Take a seat! I really want to offer you guys a drink but... well, the obvious issues. Also sorry if the gun scared you, I'm new to this area and...also going solo.
"I'm only here by coincidence, I was picking up the remains of an old animatronic of interest in Savannah, that's um, Georgia, when Pops saw the huge spikes in Remnant here, and Skin approved I intervene."
<inquiry>Pops?
Charlie rubs behind her felt neck, moving to the Armory to put her rifle amid the comical amount of weaponry.
>"My boss, it's a complicated situation. I know you have a lot of questions, and I have a lot I wanna know and ask as well. You both seem sweet but I've been told not to trust you at face value. So... does ‘quid quo pro’ sound fair?
>"I ask you something, and you ask me something?"
