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Ask him his name!

Anna goes ahead and breaks the silence, asking the young man his name.



He does not say anything for a long time. Anna assumes that he will simply not say anything and goes back to concentrating on driving on the dirt road, but then suddenly the man does speak.

It's Arthur, he says. Art to his friends, sometimes.

While he's at it, he also mumbles out an embarrassed thanks for the ride, since he hadn't thanked her yet. Anna accepts it with a grunt.

Tell him about the town festival.

After that, Anna just goes ahead and babbles out whatever comes to mind to make the atmosphere less sticky. She talks about the town festival.

Arthur came just in time for it. It's a pretty nice festival. Mostly it's just eating candied things, but there are some games to play. People always needs help setting up for the festival. Arthur could probably find a job quick. Arthur likes exotic things, right? Sometimes merchants come around selling exotic things for the festival. Anna doesn't know where they come from either.

Arthur asks what it's even a festival of.

Anna babbles a bit and then admits that she never really knew. It was just a festival that happened. Someone who actually lived in town probably actually knew. Arthur could ask them, not a dumb hick like her or anything, hahaha.





They arrive.

Anna hops out of her truck, but Arthur stays inside. Anna waits a bit and then tells him that he's gotta come out. He has to figure out what to do next, but either way he's gotta get out of there. Maybe find a place to live in for the time being and such and such. She kinda has work to do and no offense but she just met him so she would kinda be more comfortable if he didn't just sit in her truck like that.

So.

She's sorry if she hurt his feelings or something.

She didn't hurt his feelings, did she?

She could help show him around a little, but she still has that job to do so...

Arthur?