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[yersmalltime]

[a frequency that hasn't been used in a month suddenly comes to life//the first sound it broascasts since going offline is a body falling through branches and crashing into the snow]

Nngh...

[a scuffle and a click indicates he has risen to one knee, gun drawn]

What is this? Where----?

[he reaches into his pocket for a radio, but his voice trails off

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[yeah_i_can_fly]

...To think I had lost a roommate. What blasphemy.

[yersmalltime]

[a pause of pleasant shock] That's Tony all right. Still the Pope in Rome, Tony. Only you can grant absolution for that. [chuckles] Long time no see.

...what happened here?

[yeah_i_can_fly]

[with obvious amusement] Well, I guess I better go perform the holy ritual of washing all the sins away. With alcohol.

It's been a little while. [pause] About a month or so. The most recent, and notable, event? The Warden's traipse through the compound as an unwitting pawn of destruction for the Keepers. They seem to be pretty... agitated. Exact cause? Unknown. Likely suspect? The Indigeo. --It's missing.

Anyway, you just missed all the fun...

[yersmalltime]

Sure did. [said grimly, running his hand on some nearby scorch marks] The Indigeo having legs is new to me though. I'm sure most of us took it for some program on the network.

...my old spot in Dor-Dyo. Is that still up for grabs?

[melakafray13]

((ooc: EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Wish I could post IC!!!))

[yersmalltime]

Too long, Urd. How've you been?

...s'funny. I should be mad at being back. But I'm not. Not as much as I should be anyway.

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[yersmalltime]

I could do without this war. But not the bonds I made with a handful here.

[darkrangerqueen]

Leon. [Pause; she's not quite sure how to continue.]

You've been gone for nearly a month.

[The question of how long it has been for him remains unspoken, but still in the air.]

[yersmalltime]

...Sylvanas. [an awkward moment for the normally composed agent, with so much going unsaid; if there was a reason he wanted to see this cursed place again, she was one of them]

A month? For real? But it's been a whole year for me.

[darkrangerqueen]

...There have been several important developments in your absence. But the news can wait.

You should see Melaka.

[yersmalltime]

You're right. I will.

[you hear him make motions of tucking the PDA aside, but he stops short of doing so and clears his throat... then he finally speaks in a decisive 'to hell with it' sort of way]

Sylv?

...it's good to hear from you again.

[yersmalltime]

John, hey. [the subtle hero worship and deference to the Spartan is still there]] Not many people I'd trust here to cover me in a firefight. Good to know one of them's still around.