DELETED SCENES FROM 15 STRANGERS ROUND 6

[incendiarize]

[Arthur has been known to swim in the pool on occasion. Or just let himself float. It's a good way to lose himself and stop worrying so much, and it's a good way to work off a post-vision funk. So, yeah, he's headed there now.

Maybe someone else is too?]

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[backuphero]

Who knows? If the world's changed so much that Tokyo's a sea of ruins... well, hell, maybe they'd be lucky enough to find the Met's still there underneath everything.

[A pause, just a beat, really.]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I mean. They've got a beautiful collection of weapons and armor... I've only been a couple of times, I'm from the central-south part of the country. "Austin" and "Dallas" don't sound familiar, do they?

[He can't not wonder.]

[incendiarize]

[He shakes his head.]

Nah, I don't know those names. Ricky probably would, she's from the Old World. And Raquna might know something, her kingdom supposedly goes back that far, but it's not like the whole world a been explored. They could still be out there, maybe even thriving. Just, you know, without contact with the rest of the world yet.

[backuphero]

[Jonathan shakes his own head, slowly, and then sighs.]

When I think about time on that kind of scale it just gives me a headache. I know humans are really good at surviving - hell, you're living proof - but the thought that we could go on so long that all the cities I know are either ruins or lost somehow just... it's a lot to take in.

[He smiles, then.]

Pretty egotistical, I know. Anyway, uh, I know the pool's not goin' anywhere, but right now I think jumping in would do me a world of good.

[incendiarize]

It's not like it was some slow process. Your cities probably would've survived indefinitely, without any kind of event horizon.

[He stretches, though. This was much more intense than when it came up with Eric Lecarde, that's for sure.]

Yeah, a swim sounds great.