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"Oh, sure! Thanks." Aarti said when Taylor offered the dried fruit. She took a few out and only ate one, gave two to Leo, and tried to get Alex to take one too but he refused, the rest remained in her hand.
Max then began explaining and Aarti listened attentively, it was almost as if she always had to be concentrated on something, today it was learning about Max and Taylor.

"We should have had a military dog, Alex. Why didn't we get one?" Aarti asked, looking over at the scowling face of her friend, "It would of been so useful! Just think about it!"
Alex was now looking quite irritated, "Where do you think we'd find one?" He snapped, annoyance in his voice, "Plus, I don't like dogs."
"Well... we found one, today. And you used to have one though, didn't you? I think I remember-"
"No."
"Oh... okay, liar." Aarti turned back to Max and Taylor, "I wonder what time it is." She frowned, peering through the leaves of the tree in attempt to see where the sun was, "Hopefully it's not too long before we're free to go, the zombie guy said there was a lot of them though..."
Then, Aarti veered off from wondering what the time was and went back to questioning the two,
"How come it's just you two traveling? What about your parents or friends?"
She already had a good idea of what the answer would be, but she still wanted to find out.