I know what you did last New Tick

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Who: Billy Loomis, OTA
What: Arm Practice
Where: The Agrii Ship
When: During New Tick Part Two
Warnings: Billy Loomis

It took a frustrating amount of coordination to line the digits of his new arm up with the button to start with, and now Billy was working on maintaining the pressure needed to actually push the damn thing so he could 'enjoy' some protein paste. He wanted to hurl the damn bowl held in his good hand against the wall, but if he didn't learn the basics of making this prosthetic work then he was never going to be able to use his other gifts. And he very much wanted to make use of them.

He was doing all right when the pressure shifted, arm jolting against the machine and falling to the floor, rolling away while Billy kicked the base of the machine in frustration.

"...Can you hand me that?" he asked tensely.

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Keith gave a half-hearted shrug.

"Sorry... just a thing, I guess. My brother makes bad puns like that about his own arm. He's better at it." Keith was willing to admit when he was bad at something. In fact, he tended to say he was bad at things more often than not unless it was something he was absolutely sure he was good at.

"So, uh... need... need some help?" He stopped himself from asking if the guy needed a hand. Besides, Keith might be on crutches, but he could at least push a button.

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"My friend does the same thing." It's a bit dry, but at least he doesn't seem mad about it.

"Just trying to get used to using this thing," Billy said, finally getting it back in place. He spared a short glance at the crutches, and though he knew very well why he was on them, he arched a brow, giving them a short nod. "What happened?"

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Keith actually hesitated for a split second, and then took a breath, letting it out in a small sigh.

"I'm guessing you heard about the fire in the Green section," he said. It wasn't like Leo had kept quiet about it, yelling over the network like he had. "One of the beams from the roof of that building came down on my leg."

But turnabout was fair play, yeah? He nodded back, indicating the guy's arm.

"What about you?"

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"Ohh," Billy did a pretty convince wince of sympathy, "Yeah, I heard a bit about it. That's gotta be scary."

Following the gaze, he supplied, "I got bit. During the whole zombie thing. Didn't wanna turn into one of those things, so..." Well, the end of that is pretty much evident, isn't it?

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Scary... yeah. That was one way to put it. Considering what had happened with Keith's dad, it had been surprisingly triggering after the fact. He just nodded a little bit.

"Yeah, that makes sense..." he said. "I didn't think that kind of thing actually worked... like, it was just a thing in TV shows."