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( When you're used to being by yourself in the world you're from, it's about a hundred times harder to try to address a whole network of people on the other side, but. She needs to. The camera turns on, and it shows Clementine in the dining room. There are two cork boards behind her. )

So. Hey.

I know everyone's on edge with the recent murder, but. Yeah. ( It doesn't have the same effect on her as it does most, but that's kinda cause she's fucked up and it's hard to shake her up at all. But she can feel everyone on edge, and no one seems to be close to figuring out what the hell happened, not that she's deep involved in investigating. She wanted to put up these boards cause there's a lot of stuff she wants to learn, and if she doesn't do it now, she won't ever do it. So here she goes. ) We're all stuck here, but maybe there's something you want to learn or you can teach others.

Like how to play the piano or violin, how to read or write or type, how to do first aid, how to paint or draw, or how to do cool science shit. Gardening, carpentry, sewing, cooking...

Something like that.

I put up these boards in the dining room so you can do that. This board's for offering up lessons. This board's for finding someone who can teach you what you want. Just... since there's a murderer around and it's either a mirror or one of us... or a resident, I guess, maybe make sure to schedule your lessons in a public place and tell someone where you're going.

And keep a weapon on you, and if you don't know how to use one of those, maybe seek some lessons in that. ( deep sigh before she mutters mostly to herself: ) I did a great fucking job selling this.

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Really? ( But she smirks lightly in response, grateful he thinks so. )

Thought it could have used a little less murder talk myself.

Yeah, maybe. But it's on peoples' minds, so it doesn't hurt to address it, especially if it's about keeping each other safe.

That's what I figured. You can't be too careful, and I would hate for the murderer to use this board as a way to have an easy way to kill again.

The advice is good even if there weren't a murderer. You never know what can happen here.

That's about the truest damn thing ever said about this place.

Never know what can happen. Never know what will happen. Can't slow our lives down because we don't know.

Yeah. So something like this board is a great idea. Give everyone something to do with all our downtime, and we'll spend less time worrying. Hopefully.

We'll at least spend less time stuck in our own heads, trying to figure out what can't be figured out or going over all the shit we've seen and done. Or that's the hope anyway. You got anything you want to learn?

Hm...

[He considers for a minute.]

There's nothing in particular. But there are a lot of things that'd probably be fun. Learning music, for example. That'd be cool.

That would be pretty cool.

There's a music room here, and I don't even know how many people can play. ( But it might be cool to have like a band or something. There was a music festival not long ago. ) What instrument would you want to play?

[He takes a second to think about that, too.]

I...don't really know. There are a lot of them to choose from. Piano would probably be fun, but it's looked pretty hard whenever I've seen other people play it.

There are a lot of keys. I don't know if I could ever figure it out myself.

( She'd have to really want to- to put her mind to it, and she's definitely not at that level yet. (

Think it might depend on how much you want to learn.

That's true, too. Just being able to read music would be pretty cool.

It would be really cool.

Maybe if you ask, someone will be able to help you. Then you'll have to play something for me sometime like as a thank you for putting this up. ( She's kidding. )

Heh. Don't expect it to happen any time soon, then.

[He firmly believes it would take him 82,371 years to learn to play piano well enough to do it in front of anyone else.]

( Clementine smirks at that, folding her arms loosely across her chest. )

What kind of time frame should I be expecting?

We're talking years, I think.

I'll ask you again in a few years then.

Perfect. By then I'm sure I'll be like a natural.

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