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[He'll eventually start picking books up to hand to him.]

Younger. She was in Vegas, too. She's smarter than me--she's the only one who got home uninjured.

Good self preservation skills. I'm glad to hear she was okay. What year?

Lost track. She keeps skipping years.

... Really smart. Impressive.

Smarter than I'll ever be. I can't even say I got the looks--we look more like siblings than cousins.

[He snorts.] Anything you can beat her at?

Having a sense of humor.

[He just. Snorts and chokes on his coffee he's trying to imagine someone with Matt's face but completely serious.]

Exactly. I'm better at all of one thing and it's the best to be better at.

The idea that anybody with your face can have no sense of humor is frightening. How is that real?

[A shrug.] I'm not blood related to the crazy cop that wanted to kill the Numbered?

Eeh... you have that in your family too?

Crazy cop? Not by blood, but by marriage, yeah. It made Christmas really, really weird in retrospect.

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Hmm.

"Wanted" to kill, though?

I'm sure he still wants to. But he's locked up for now.

What'd he do?

Killed someone for being Numbered.

... Mmmm.

[He sighs and sits back again.]

I'm calling my parents tomorrow there's no way my cousin is coming up here with all this happening.

The giant alien snakes weren't bad enough? It took the corrupt police force to make you lose faith in the city?

The giant alien snakes weren't enough to convince them especially after they found out it got killed. I wasn't a Numbered then and so they insisted it'll be fine.

They'll probably call you back, too. It's not like you'd un-Number, but you'd probably be a little safer in Vegas.

Being around someone with a Number apparently increases the chances of someone gaining their own. I'm not going to risk it.

I really doubt we're actually contagious.

Trouble occurs around the Numbered anyway.

You can leave the radius.