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[vaccination]

Poor Arthur.

But yeah, I get it, don't worry. You'll be the first one I call if he's being too much of a freak.

[wildguardian]

Good! So. New inmate aside, how've you been, Ellie? Hanging in there?

[vaccination]

Does by the skin of my teeth count?

[wildguardian]

Only by the skin of your teeth. What's up?

[vaccination]

The whole visitor thing ruffled my feathers, I guess. I'll be fine. I just didn't expect to see someone or, you know, have someone here in my stead.

You seem to be handling everything fine all the time. How do you do that?

[wildguardian]

Honestly... the visitor thing got to me pretty bad, too. The guy who was here instead of me is someone I miss a lot, and as much as it's nice to get video of him alive and well, I would've preferred to get to see him.

But I guess that's not how it works!

I'm used to a certain amount of weird bullshit, anyway, so I can deal.

[Denial, repression, and general control freak tendencies, that's the real trick to being Fine All The Time.]

[vaccination]

Like water off a duck's back, huh? I wish I bounced back like you.

[wildguardian]

Give it ten years? Believe me, you have your shit way more together than I did at twenty.

[And, immediately afterwards:]

And that makes me sound like an old man! Still. You learn a lot between twenty and thirty.

[vaccination]

What? You're that old? I didn't know you were ancient.

[She's just joking around!]

[wildguardian]

I have a young, beautiful face and a deep well of life experience. The best of both worlds.

[Ellie will have to supply her own deeply sarcastic tone to get the full effect of this text, but Yunlan's confident she can handle it.]

[vaccination]

That's taking it a little to too far, buddy.

[wildguardian]

Too much, huh? Oh well!

Anyway, though, seriously: keeping your cool does get easier with practice, the older you get the more practice you get.

[vaccination]

So I'm going to be a little old lady by the time I get my shit together?

[wildguardian]

Depends. It sounds like you've been through enough shit to have a head start on the practice.

[Not that they've talked a lot about her life, but: zombie apocalypse. Zombie apocalypses are enough shit for any teenager.]

[vaccination]

Middle aged not so old lady, then.

[wildguardian]

The point here is, it gets easier to work through shit.

[vaccination]

I just have to become even more jaded. Got it.

[wildguardian]

You did ask how I managed.

[vaccination]

To be fair, I probably would have considered anything else bullshit.