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[lumberlady]

Oh, no, I just wanted to know so I can prepare enough pumpkins!

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Pumpkins?

[ okay. she knows this one. She is like, 65% sure that's some kind of... nut or vegetable. ]

9S and I don't need to eat.

[lumberlady]

They're not for eating, they're for protecting you from bad spirits!

[undeserved]

... Bad spirits.

[ unsurprisingly, the robot is not sure what to make of that, and her tone sounds fairly skeptical. ]

[lumberlady]

Yeah! They come around once a year, so you have to be careful.

[Presented as Fact]

[undeserved]

We both have our swords with us. We'll be fine.

[lumberlady]

You can't cut a spirit with a sword, 2B!

[undeserved]

That's not true. We engaged a forest spirit in combat during a previous mission and were able to take it down.

[ she sounds completely confident in this ]

[lumberlady]

What mission? We haven't been to a forest-

[Wait-]

Spirits like... don't have bodies to cut!

[undeserved]

... I was with another spacefaring peace force before this.

[ CRAZY, RIGHT. ]

Anyway, this one did.

[lumberlady]

Well... it doesn't work on Halloween spirits. I learned all about them just now.

[so there]

[undeserved]

What's the difference?

[ spirits don't make SENSE!! ]

[lumberlady]

Because they're actual dead people who have come back.

[undeserved]

Spirits of the dead?

[ is that real... ]

They're dangerous?

[lumberlady]

Well, they can be... But not if you have these special pumpkins! That' the whole point.

[undeserved]

What do the pumpkins do?

[ she's thinking about this too hard. ]

I don't see how a vegetable can stop anything.

[lumberlady]

They ward off the spirits- that's why they're lit up and have the fearsome faces carved in.

[undeserved]

The spirits are scared of them...?

[ it reminds her of some of the ancient mask relics that the androids had occasionally found out in the desert. ]