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[It's been quiet for a little bit, and that always makes Ellie suspicious. Even without the interference of their captors, it seems like people are still having trouble with this or that. Whether it's the departure of friends, or a misunderstanding, or just... day to day living being kind of rough on someone? She's been seeing it all over the place. She's not used to caring, but with everyone so open in Luceti, it's hard not to.

So, upon discovering what she's been searching for the last several months finally, finally in the library, she makes a decision. If it's peace that they're getting, she's going to enjoy it as much as possible.]

Okay, Luceti...ans, whatever. Time to lighten the mood.

[There's a sound of a page turning, and she clears her throat.]

"Newsflash: Police were called to a daycare... where a three-year-old was resisting a rest." ...eh.

"I did a theatrical performance about puns. Really... it was just a play on words." Psssh. Cute.

"He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends." ...I don't get that one, actually.

"The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray... is now a seasoned veteran." [Snigger.]

"Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? ...He's all right now." Ohhh, ha ha, that one's mean.

[The page turns again.]

Got more where that came from. Anyone else have some jokes to share? We can swap.

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Well, yeah. It didn't actually happen, it's just a joke.

A joke? Being split in two does not seem like a very funny joke to me.

No, no, it's- it's called a pun. It's a play on words.

Like, a guy with his left side cut off- all he's got is his right side. So he's "all right". Get it?

No. He would not be alright. He would be in two parts.

[.....]

Nevermind.

Grow a funny bone, would you?

Growing extra bones is not an ability that I have. I was not aware there were different bones.

[It's the little nuances of human language that she's still working on grasping.]

Was the man who was split in two able to regrow?

[Oh god it's like one thing after another with this person.]

Look, if you don't get it, you don't get it. Explaining the pun just takes the fun out of it.

[Humans are weird.] I still do not see the fun of being split in two, but I have always found human jokes to be confusing.

[She might have dismissed the conversation entirely, but...]

"Human jokes"? What's that mean?

Things that humans say that are deemed to be funny. Is that not a joke?

...Well I meant more like... so you're not human?

No. I am not a human. [She's never been very good with this book thing. Often holding it upside down and turning it on and off by mistake. She'll fiddle around with it a bit, trying to see if she can hold it to show more of her features.

Although, mostly the camera will show the forest she's currently in. It was still strange to her that people here could not easily tell. Her extra long facial features like eyes, ears, and mouth would have stood out in her homeland, but here they were more subtle and not what people looked for.]

Do you have dragons in your world? For my mother is a proud pure blood dragon and my father belonged to a clan of water nymphs. So I am a mix of their blood and not human. [So far that she is aware. If her father had human in him it was at least very, very weak.]

Oh wow... we don't have any of those in my world. At least, not for real, anyway. They're mostly just in books or movies.

I am sorry for your world. Is it also a world that does not have any demons, unicorns, or even trolls? [Those were some common animals she remembers some people not happen. No trolls? Really? It's so weird.]

No, none of those either. We've got monsters, though. Infected.

Infected? Do you mean a human who is ill?

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