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     "What direction we going in?" Skip asked. "Where are you leading me?"

     "I'm not leading you anywhere," Claudia replied. "I'm still trying to scope out where we're at."

​     "I'm in danger?"

     "We're not alone. I can tell you that. I think they're scavengers."                                 "I keep hearing movement underneath us. Is that even possible?"                             "They're all around us. For now, they're just keeping an eye on us."

     "Any chance of us getting any food?"

     "A good chance, only..."

     "I knew there'd be an only."

     "We're on a mission, Skip."

     "We haven't been here an hour. What mission?"

     "Can I ask you a question, Skip? We haven't been formally introduced, and I want to be polite."

     "Oh boy, here we go."

     "Are you the most sophisticated computer ever devised?"

     "I see where..."

     "No, that would be me, and as much as I'd love to spend hours and hours explaining my every utterance to you, I'm afraid that, for now, you're just going to have to trust me and go with the flow. We a team on that?"

     "I'm starving." 

     "I get the feeling I'm going to be hearing that a lot from you." 

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