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[heartboobs]

1:45
Sunday, November 25

ZODION

"You've reached Maaa-yaaa~! Let's speak positively! Your messages should be optimistic!"

Please specify game and format!

• zodion: via devices, with video/voice/text & voicemail components
  
• proximabeta: via devices, with video/voice/text(messaging) & voicemail components
  
• cityofariel: via microchips, that mentally convey video/audio/text messages

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[heartboobs]

Eh, you went home?

[She's not just being polite. And for that matter, she's not exactly content yet, either. He might be able to read the mild surprise in her words when she speaks-- though Maya usually paid good attention to the network, there are some things that even she misses.]

... I didn't know that. I'm really glad you're doing fine, then! [What else to say because of that?] Everything's still all right for you?

[As all right as they could be, that is. Really, this is a roundabout way of asking if anything too different or consequential passed while he was gone.]

[foepas]

Three years, for me.

[It's just voice, so it's easy to keep his lofty, unaffected apart from the scorn directed at the entire situation of it all.]

As all right as they were.

[And even that much isn't true, but Alec will damn himself before he'll ask anyone for help like this. He can manage here, because not managing doesn't mean anything, won't result in any sort of freedom, just more pain. So none of it matters.]

[heartboobs]

[Oddly, she might be able to relate better to that perspective than he'd ever think on the outside. There's a reason Maya only succumbed to emotion in front of one person the night something she so treasured was irreconcilably destroyed-- and why she only allowed herself such a short time to vent. It can be difficult to ask for help. Exceedingly difficult.

Then again, he might realize this similarity based on her first answer to him.]

Three years is a long time, Alec. It makes me want to picture you as older-- You are older now, aren't you. [A worthwhile statement to mention to her, if only because Alec so often came off as someone younger and immature in a few aspects before. If he was more on her playing field, so to speak, it would make for some interesting interactions in the future. This is the young man who seemed so suicidal and bent on refusing so much of her reasoning about life.] How old? You should tell me if you don't mind.

[foepas]

Older, and with a longer name.

[Not that he'd told her his original one, but that is what it is. No one else had known either.]

24. Although I've allegedly had a birthday here as well, whatever that ought to mean.

[It doesn't mean anything to him, he doesn't understand this calendar, really. And for it to happen so soon after he returned...it's like the time that passes here doesn't really matter.]

[heartboobs]

So... 24? 25? Mmm, that's about just as old as me! A person can do a lot of growing in three years.

[She sounds happy to say it. Though it doesn't seem like a lot about him has especially changed just from what she can tell during this conversation...] --Hey, Alec. You started off by telling me to let you know if there was anything you could do to help, didn't you? What if I told you I just thought of something?