dear_mun | On going to holloways

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On going to holloways_keep next month...

I hope you actually know what you're doing like you claim to. You and I both know that you're overbooking yourself between the ooh shiny syndrome and this bout of nostalgia. I'm just getting that out of the way because it needs to be said. For the very legitimate and not-made-up record. Okay? Okay.

That out of the way, I don't actually have any objections to going to this Keep place. The Golden Shore is...awful. And I appreciate that you've held off on bringing me anywhere without King...

Just. I know you're excited but take a deep breath. You've got at least four weeks to take your time with the app and get back into the swing of things, okay?

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Shit, looks like we're both back in the game. Well. A game, anyway.

Mun says a version of me used to know you. Hell if I know about this alternate universe crap.

[Oh hello, familiar face, and human too. Smiling. Bryn is overcome with warm fuzzies, despite how they had left off before.]

Karis! [She laughs a bit.] Not just one version of you, two.

Are you...how are you? You look well.

Alright, alright. I'm...

[She flexes a hand in front of her face with a grin.]

...I'm alive. Yeah.

[She laughs and then trails off with a shrug.]

Tired of getting jerked around by the universe, but that's my life in a damn nutshell, isn't it? How about you?

.....!!!

[GLEE]

You're -- coming back?!

[WHOA hi there blue. Bryn goes wide-eyed with surprise, but not alarm. She looks at the alien with a wide smile.]

A version of me, but I'm not the one you know I think. I take it you were friends with the other Bryn?

[Bryn's smile broadens.]

I think that's kinda our lot in life, and I'm okay but oh my god, you're alive again. Is it permanent this time?

[Karis blinks and her grin gets even bigger.]

Yeah! Yeah, it is. For real this time.

Thank god. The other yous that I know, or knew. They kept...well, getting flipped back and forth and it was awful. It never made sense why if Redd had the power to change you at all why it couldn't just stay that way.

[Huff. Dealing with Karis after it was over was always difficult.]

[Well, that sounds like a dick move. Karis wrinkles her nose/]

Shit. I can imagine - I wouldn't want to go back now. I'm - Hell, I have a second shot at life, you know? I'm-

[Deep breath.]

...I can actually feel.

[The biggest dick move, in her opinion, and she wasn't even the one getting switched back and forth.]

I bet. All those senses coming back to life...how long since this development? I take it you've done all of the good things...eat, drink, run, stopping to smell the roses...

A day or two. To me, anyway. I got repodded right afterward, which kinda blows, but at least I'm ending up at another place all alive and crap in a month or two.

Which means I didn't actually get a chance to go on my week-long booze-a-thon.

[Her lips twitch into a grin again.]

What about you, Brynnie?

Repodded? Where in the hell were you? And you'd better have a booze-a-thon just don't overdo it. That's a brand new liver and you can't pickle it too quick.

[She grins also. Talking with Karis hasn't been this easy in ages, and it feels good.]

As for me, well...I'm headed to some sort of medieval castle. Not sure I'll like it so much but there are going to be people there I know...my fiancé too. Apparently another version of me was there before so that...that should be interesting.

Well, shit, and here I was hoping you weren't taken.

[There's a (probably familiar to Bryn) smirk and/or leer. But apparently Karis is a bit more mellow when she's not a zombie.]

Sounds like being trapped is gonna be all kinds of fun. Not.

[She makes a little 'woop-dee-doo' motion with one finger.]

I'm gonna be in some biome on a dead world. Good times.

[She is used to it, and gives Karis a look that amounts to "Oh you."]

Sorry, maybe there's another of me running around you can pick up.

Wish I was going to a place with more technology though, I've got to say. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with myself otherwise...

What's the biome supposed to be like?

[Karis laughs tips her a wink.]

I can hope, can't I?

[Hmmm.]

Dunno much about it, 'cept that it's the last bastion of civilization or some shit. Run by a computer.

Nothin' stopping you from hoping.

[The mention of a place run by a computer gives Bryn some concern however. Insane captains were one thing but...]

Be careful though. There are others that I know of...they're on this space station in space? It's run by an A.I. and it's...it's not safe.

We're gonna be on solid ground. Already did the whole "sentient space ship" thingy. She wasn't too bad, though... Gave me my life back.

...Oh.

[Face falling, just a fraction.]

Er. Yes. That's the word she kept...using.

You're gonna miss me something fierce.

Well thank god for small blessings or something, yeah?

[She exhales.]

So does yours have plans for you once you get there?

[She saw that.]

Friends? You must be something pretty special then. What's your name?

[She grins.]

Maybe I will. Not as much as you're going to miss me though.

Ah -- well. Yes. Special -- is a good word, I suppose.

[Shrug. He's fantastic but right now he doesn't feel so fabulous. Just a little pouty.]

Megamind, Mas--

[Cough.]

Just -- Megamind.

Oh, babe, you know I'm going to be having fits. Might get into a barfight. Totally in your honor.

[Poor pouty ~~purple~~ blue alien man.]

Well it's nice to meet you. I'm...I'm sorry the other me isn't coming back but maybe I'll be okay too?

[> BE MEGAMIND
> ACCEPT FRIENDSHIP?]

A barfight? In my honor? I'm flattered but you don't need to go to the trouble.

[Her tone is light but...no. Seriously. She doesn't need to go to the trouble. It's not Lilith she's worried about but the poor suckers who are going to be on the receiving end.]

[He peers.]

....Yes. I suppose -- you will.

[>MEGAMIND ACCEPTS.]

[She mirrors his peering teasingly.]

I'm glad you think so.

[>PROFIT]

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