"Well the good news is I had just escaped the worse of it before I ended up here." Dick offered Paulo what he hoped was a reassuring smile as they sat in the booth. "The bad news is I'm not sure what I'm gonna do next, but it'll shake out."

Dick picked a fry and tossed it in his mouth, huh, not bad considering nothing here was real.

"But, yeah that stuff you said about shit not following you?  Wander far enough from the city and there's this darkness stuff that will grab that shit and shove it in your face if you get to close to it. So you might want to stay in the city until the simulation crap is over."