Yep, definitely alive. I'm getting good at running for cover and I've also managed to keep from making any immediately fatal poor life choices.

[Curt stares at the stick and turns it over a few times.]

Cool. Maybe I'll show it to Demyx. He's dead...although, I dunno if he'd feel reassured or needs reassurance, or whatever. Hard to tell. Anyway, I like it, I will but it somewhere the cat can't get at it.