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[hejhej]

[Sitting at her computer and stuffing McDonald's fries from a Happy Meal into her mouth, Lisbeth wears a faded black tank top. In addition to three earrings piercing her left lobe, her left nostril, nasal septum, eyebrow, and lip are pierced. A wasp tattoo is only visible when he turns her head to drink from her soda can. Her hair is jet black and cut like Helen Keller did the work herself. The only different thing about her appearance is the black mascara she applied around her eyes, giving her a raccoon effect. She finally addresses her audience.]

I'll give you a face, but no name, Siren's Port. You're gonna see alot of me soon enough.

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[vaguelysauntered]

No, I'm from good old Earth. No place like it.

But that's not where I'm originally from.

[hejhej]

[She lights a cigarette and cracks open another can of Coke.]

Where are you from?

[vaguelysauntered]

I'm from somewhere down below.

Both literally and figuratively.

[hejhej]

[Her eyebrows furrow slightly before she returns to a neutral stare.]

Underground...?

[vaguelysauntered]

Underground in a way, though really, it is its own place down there.

Basically, it's a certain place that I know many people talk about in their lives. Oddly enough, most everyone knows of it...but no one except maybe for me has been there and back to Earth.

[hejhej]

[Lisbeth's eyes flitted around as she tried to piece together what he said. Underground, literal, but he has been there and back to earth.

Back to earth. The idea that he was from the physical center of the earth had crossed her mind, but no. The fact that he made a point to say he'd been back to earth...]

Are you from hell...?

[vaguelysauntered]

[A pause, and then he gives a few short claps as well as a wide grin, to show that yes, she's absolutely correct.]

You got it. I come from there.

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Does that bother you?

[hejhej]

[She doesn't even take a second to think twice about his question.]

No. I don't believe in demons or religious shit.

But no.

[She just told people to go to hell.]

[vaguelysauntered]

Well, all the better for you, I suppose. Religion is a pretty tricky business and it's a topic not worth looking into unless you like arguing with lots of people at once.

Good. Hate to have someone lose interest just because I come from Down There.

[hejhej]

[Bringing her feet onto her chair, resting her chin on her knees, she gently nibbles on her already ragged thumbnail before replying.]

Didn't know my conversation was that great.

[vaguelysauntered]

Oh, it is.

[And he means it. Most of the people here were mostly idiots, but she? She intrigued him.]

Why shouldn't it be?

[hejhej]

[The response takes a bit to finally be typed.]

I'm not that talkative.

And I'm weird.

[vaguelysauntered]

So? I find people who don't talk that much have the best things to say when they do.

And, psssh, everyone's weird in their own way. It's the disease that everyone has and that people try to incessantly cure to no end, weirdness. Me, I find weirdness quite interesting.

Except in the case of Hieronymus Bosch. I think his weirdness went far beyond the human spectrum of weirdness and into something else entirely, but I digress.

[hejhej]

[Smiling? What is that? oh. In the meantime, she looks up Hieronymus Bosch.]

I prefer math.

[vaguelysauntered]

Math is good and logical. Though weird in it's own way too.

For example, I know for a fact that you can prove things like 0=1 or 1+0=0 if you go about it the right way.

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[hejhej]

[Don't throw equations at Lisbeth. She gets distracted.

And, good enough, a response comes about ten minutes later with her work. But first, she has to hide it from prying eyes.]

0 = 0+0+0+...

0 = (1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)+...

0 = 1+(-1+1)+(-1 + 1)+(-1 + 1)+...

0 = 1+0+0+0+...

0 = 1

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[vaguelysauntered]

[He waits those ten minutes with a slightly bored expression, but when she sends the equations, his face lights up into a grin.]

Exactly. That's the one.

So...are you a mathematician, or do you like numbers in general.

[hejhej]

I just like numbers.

They keep me busy.

[vaguelysauntered]

So, you're a regular numerophile, aren't you? Makes sense. Some people get involved in collecting stamps, or writing, or knitting, and I guess what you do is get involved in the intricate relationships between figures and such.

What's your favorite number? Do you have one?

[hejhej]

[That's a surprising question.]

I'm afraid I can't give you an answer because no one has ever asked me before.

[vaguelysauntered]

But that doesn't mean you don't have one, right? I mean, for example, everyone has a favorite color despite the fact that people have never asked them what it is. Questions don't make things happen, you know.

[hejhej]

[He's right. She kind of hated it when other people were right.]

Zero.

[vaguelysauntered]

Zero. Nil. The void number. Honestly, not a single number like it.

[He grins.]

That's interesting. That you like it, I mean.

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[hejhej]

Zero pisses off alot of people. It doesn't have value in math, but in computer science, it does.

voice a beautiful thing that's what

[vaguelysauntered]

Of course- binary, right?

Plus, zero is one of those numbers you can't really use anywhere else, either. It can't be rhymed with too many words, and it always gets mistaken as an "o" if you write it down wrong. It just does it's own thing, zero.