[ freelancer good, at least. they're both alive, in good health. middling sanity. not checking over their shoulders any more than usual.
which reminds her of sharkface. they'll need to talk about him - and it'll keep filling carolina's focus with matter-of-fact questions, information. at some point, she knows she has to stop and actually figure out how she feels about maine being here. she'd considered him her best friend, once upon a time, and it's why she has a whole host of things she wants to apologize for. she knew sigma was starting to isolate him and she said nothing and they all paid for it. this maine just never got there, might not even know why she's as sorry as she is.
but it's still maine and maine is still the first person she thinks about when she dreams of falling and wakes herself with a jerk and a shout.
she missed him, but holy shit, is it complicated.
out on a major walking path now, she changes her pace just enough to fall into step beside him, able to keep her voice a little lower. she still walks fast, sets the speed, knows it's pretty much his own natural walking pace. carolina's never been big on slow. ]
There's a former ODST here. Name's Ephemera. We've got a 'no revenge killing' truce and I'll warn him you're here, but if you find someone who hates you because he figures out you're a Freelancer, know that he has his reasons.
[ and things are better between them than before, really, but still enough of a concern that maine deserves to know. ]
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[ freelancer good, at least. they're both alive, in good health. middling sanity. not checking over their shoulders any more than usual.
which reminds her of sharkface. they'll need to talk about him - and it'll keep filling carolina's focus with matter-of-fact questions, information. at some point, she knows she has to stop and actually figure out how she feels about maine being here. she'd considered him her best friend, once upon a time, and it's why she has a whole host of things she wants to apologize for. she knew sigma was starting to isolate him and she said nothing and they all paid for it. this maine just never got there, might not even know why she's as sorry as she is.
but it's still maine and maine is still the first person she thinks about when she dreams of falling and wakes herself with a jerk and a shout.
she missed him, but holy shit, is it complicated.
out on a major walking path now, she changes her pace just enough to fall into step beside him, able to keep her voice a little lower. she still walks fast, sets the speed, knows it's pretty much his own natural walking pace. carolina's never been big on slow. ]
There's a former ODST here. Name's Ephemera. We've got a 'no revenge killing' truce and I'll warn him you're here, but if you find someone who hates you because he figures out you're a Freelancer, know that he has his reasons.
[ and things are better between them than before, really, but still enough of a concern that maine deserves to know. ]