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"No." It was the same as he'd been telling her so many times already. Only this time, the words formed before he could even think about them. He spoke as if compelled to do so, in a way he'd never encountered before. He looked surprised, for a moment, but quickly turned that expression into a determined stare while Sherry's blade practically grazed his neck. "I'm just Chase. I'm alive, and I'm not a bug, and I'm a hunter, and I don't even know who or what Famine is."

He paused, and tried to look as brave as he possibly could for someone unarmed and pinned against a tree.

"So," he asked, glancing down at the blade of her glaive hesitantly, "Are you still going to kill me?"

Any further attempts to stare Sherry down were interrupted by a cheerful, tinny electronic ringtone. Chase seemed startled. In all the commotion he'd forgotten he had actually made a call. The phone was still resting at his cheek, though it had slid down a few inches from the normal place phones were usually held. Shakily he raised it up once again, never taking his eyes off Sherry, and instinctively his thumb hit the answer button. "... Hello?"

There was some heavy breathing on the other side of the phone and then-

"Hi." It wasn't said in a nice way, more like a glum, depressed, moody sort of way, like a teenager picking up the phone.

The longest most awkward pause.

"I'm bored, talk to me." The sound of something - a chair squeaking? - could be heard in the background.