[ She knows most people don't agree with her. Julie has seen humanity laid at its most bare, and that was before she was even brought to Abraxas to be treated as a thing. She watched billions die, she dodged death, starvation, abduction when she walked across states. She sat ringside at literal death fights, she saw people crucified on the Vegas Strip, she witnessed horrors that cannot be repeated. She was smote by God and died, and yet somehow she is living here, the only survivor of New Vegas. Of Pratt, Kansas. Of nearly an entire world.

And then she was brought to Abraxas. A two-year story long and complex enough to fill a tome on its own. For the most part, her life here has only darkened many of her views on people as a general concept.

But she understands, that most people cannot wrap their minds around the true terror that lives in her memories. She doesn't want them to be able to, either -- she would never wish her life on her worst enemy. It's good that he doesn't agree with her. ]

So wait, y'all had VR that like... your mind was connected, even if you had to break through to get there? [ Her eyes are wide, her eyebrows high. ] We had VR but it was like, a headset and some controller things. For like, video games, mostly. Things that were already preprogrammed.

[ Holy shit, she doesn't even want to imagine something that powerful as a general technology. VR had been a bit much even in her world, once it got cheaper. ]