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( certainly not many that dante works with, and that's their (extremely small, extremely limited!) sample for inhabitants of the City. theirs is a world of extremes, and so it tends to create from that harsh crucible extreme people with harsh views and sudden, stark reactions. so it doesn't necessarily seem out-of-place that this stranger would want to destroy the machine for the perceived sleight... just looking at her gave dante the strong impression that that tended to be her problem-solving process for anything that she came across, and it had worked pretty damned well for her thus far. )

< Um... No, I haven't. >

( they had just walked in when gebura had been receiving her fortune. they look warily at the "fortune teller," wondering if it was really the so-called proprietor of the establishment... or was it just a stand-in for a real, actual person? given how utterly abandoned this city has been thus far, that seems like wishful thinking. )

< Do you think I should try...? > ( the slow, tentative way they tick that question seems to indicate the thought of doing that makes them nervous. ) < What do you do - do you just ask it directly? >