Please interview her ! It would be amazing to hear her perspective ! <| sep |> I appreciate your contribution to this discussion . Not only was your argument nuanced but it was also highly informative . Thank you . <| sep |> Felix dreamt about her again . The girl in the black sweats with the band shirt . The shirt changed every day , the pants didn ' t . He watched her as she flew around , laughing . Felix would lay in the grass something he took to relishing , as he hadn ' t seen grass . well , ever and gaze towards her . She reminded him so much of a girl he once knew , who was buried in the Scrapyard . He always came here , at night . She never noticed him , and he didn ' t mind . Until that night . Felix went to his usual spot and sat under the shade of the willow tree . The girl never appeared . He looked around frantically . Where was she ? He stood , and began to search around the house she always took flight from . He turned a corner , into the backyard , and there she was , sitting at a picnic table , staring at him . She wore the same thing she always wore , and as he approached her , he smelled . something . He wasn ' t sure what , but it was vaguely like the Apfruits they grew at the Metalhouse . Who are you ? The girl asked . Felix . He replied , sheepishly . Why have you watched me every night , Felix ? The girl probed . Uh . I don ' t I ' m not . uh . He stammered , running his fingers through his hair and making confused gestures . The girl sighed . Not a good start . Okay . I ' m not sure why I asked , you ' re just a figment of my imagination . This caught Felix ' s attention . Wait , whoa , whoa . Wait . This is pretty meta , because you ' re a figment of my imagination . I ' m the one dreaming here . No , I am . She said , tilting her head . Wow . This is getting weird . Felix placed a hand on his forehead . Uh , I don ' t think I caught your name , by the way . That ' s because I didn ' t give it . My name ' s Ruby . She said . Where ' ya from , Ruby ? Chicago . Well , that ' s terrifying . Because I am also from Chicago . Where are we now ? My house . Ruby replied . Holy . this is preRust Chicago ? It ' s so damn green ! Well , this is just the suburbs . It ' s more gray in the city . Well , it ' s really red where I ' m from . So gray is still an improvement . Wait , go back , go back . What the hell is ' preRust ? ' Oh , you ' re from that time . Right . Well , preRust is what my people call your time period , back before the world went to shit , excuse my French . I ' m from postRust , where it costs an arm , a leg , and most of your strength to find a decent sheet of metal . Almost everything is rusted to all hell , so making things with metal is damn near impossible . The Rust was a couple hundred years before I was born , so I don ' t know what it was like then , but we ' re starting to live life now . Felix answered , shrugging towards the end . Kinda like an apocalypse . We ' ve also managed to gloss over the fact that we ' re basically time travelling . That shit is way to hard for me to even comprehend . I was hoping we wouldn ' t have to try and figure it out . Yeah , I kinda feel the same way . She said , shrugging . Oh shit , I ' m feeling light headed . Meet you here , same time tomorrow night ? Felix said , panicking . It ' d be my pleasure . She replied . mmmmMMMMMM ok I tried .