[Vanya tries to imagine it being worse before, and... well, with the state of some parts of the Anchor, she guesses she could see it. She figured this area wasn't as bad, but apparently not.]
Makes you wonder how it got this way.
[Most of the beaten down areas in the dome are clearly not just weathered and crumbled with age. That's the thing about being stuck in here with no guidance from those who came before. No telling what could... come back, if anything.
Not fun to think about. She'd rather concentrate on the task at hand.
So, dutifully, since Ben's taken up the task of scrubbing the walls, she starts on the floor, trying to clear off whatever rubble is still lying around as she goes. She seems pretty focused, so at first when Ben starts talking, she doesn't catch it.
And there's a moment, where no one says anything, before Vanya registers what he's really saying. That this might be important. That Vanya's... got catching up to do, maybe.]
...Do you mean "some stuff" that's happened here, or back home?
[Her voice is carefully neutral. She doesn't want to start jumping to conclusions, the way she did last time they talked.]
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Makes you wonder how it got this way.
[Most of the beaten down areas in the dome are clearly not just weathered and crumbled with age. That's the thing about being stuck in here with no guidance from those who came before. No telling what could... come back, if anything.
Not fun to think about. She'd rather concentrate on the task at hand.
So, dutifully, since Ben's taken up the task of scrubbing the walls, she starts on the floor, trying to clear off whatever rubble is still lying around as she goes. She seems pretty focused, so at first when Ben starts talking, she doesn't catch it.
And there's a moment, where no one says anything, before Vanya registers what he's really saying. That this might be important. That Vanya's... got catching up to do, maybe.]
...Do you mean "some stuff" that's happened here, or back home?
[Her voice is carefully neutral. She doesn't want to start jumping to conclusions, the way she did last time they talked.]