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*Steps partially behind the nearest tree and watches*

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*Eventually reaches you, and the flare still hasn't gone off*
...Misfire?

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Wait…

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*One by one, spindly mechanical legs pop out of the device and it crawls deeper into the vehicle*

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*Looks at you*

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The mushrooms in this forest must be toxic. I'm seeing things.

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Yeah. The dude who had gizmos out the wazoo definitely didn’t just give us a walking gadget like we saw all over the city.

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*After a high-pitched whirring noise, the branch splits down the center*
Are you being sarcastic? It's hard to tell sometimes.

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A little bit.
*Steps out from behind the tree again*
Did that guy actually give us something totally different than he said?

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It seems that way.
*The device steps out onto the now-fallen branch and turns back into its condensed form*
Do you think it was on purpose?

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Hard to say.
*Walks back up to the car and does a lap around it, glancing it up and down before stopping and squatting next to the little robot*
I’m a fan of it being non-flammable though.

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*The car seems to be scratched and dinged by the branch, but otherwise in good condition while the robot appears identical to the flare from before*
Should we go back and ask?

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I… Maybe later if you want. It might still also be a flare?

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*Shrugs*
Let's have Blue look at it and figure everything out from there.

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Maybe it’s spying on us.

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Do you think that nice merchant would do something like that?
*Gets inside and starts the car*

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I don’t know anything, man.
*Picks it up and then gets back in the car with everything in tow*

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*Starts back up and successfully moves through the forest until we start to near the clearing*

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Are we going now?