defeating the purpose of a hiatus...for this

[transam]

 Miss Mundane, 

You might be making a mistake in thinking that this will help you complete that application you're working on, even though you claim to be on 'vacation' until the new year. Still...

Perhaps you do deserve commendation on finally making a decision.

Comments

[transam]

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

...Allelujah Haptism. It's been a long time.

[praises]

I'd have thought you wouldn't be content with being idle for too long. [ He smiles. ] But then again, you've never liked going along with whims.

It's good to see you, Tieria.

[transam]

[A nod. It had been far too long.]

That's true for all of us, with or without a plan. Being separated doesn't change that.

It's good to see you too.

[praises]

It really doesn't. Although it hasn't been as long since I've seen you, that's just the nature of places like these.

Have you been well?

[transam]

It is. [That's why he's not going to worry too hard about it.]

I have, except for the whims of my mundane. We've been working together for almost two months now, and she's finally started to plan ahead.

How has this place treated you?

[praises]

Learning to cooperate is a necessity, even if we may not always like the decisions they make.

[ Compromising: the golden rule. At least in theory... ]

Things have been peaceful, considering how long I've been here. At least in comparison to the other places I've gone to.

[transam]

The good thing here is that she's made one. But, that's not the point.

[He eyed Allelujah carefully. The hairstyle may have changed, but Allelujah was still Allelujah.]

What sorts of places were those?

[praises]

[ He defers from the scrutiny, even after all this time. ]

Two of the places were terrible, though both for different reasons. [ An illness and an intergalatic war, respectively. ] The last wasn't like either of them. And I had Marie with me.

What about you?

[transam]

I've only been in one place so far. It's an antiquated little village that is terrible in it's own right, but that isn't a dominating factor. [It was rather mundane, until the residents were used as test subjects.] This other place is also twisted, [in this case by war,] but our fellow meisters are there. And, I'll be able to keep Seravee.

...my mundane has withheld a lot of information from me for the second place. Who's Marie?

[praises]

I see. You must be from a different time frame. That was difficult to get used to, too. [ Never knowing how this will go over, it's with a little trepidation that he asks: ] You... had access to my data back on the Ptolemy, right? So you'd know about my past.

[transam]

[Calmly:]

The information was stored in Veda before we lost access. I know the basic details.

[He didscreetly didn't mention that he heard scraps of the conversation that Allelujah had with Sumeragi before they conducted their Intervention on the HRL colony, nor anything about how that conversation was part of the reason why he gave Allelujah his support during that mission.]

[praises]

[ Allelujah's always had good instincts, even when it comes to reading someone like Tieria. What goes unsaid on his part is just as well, so he opts to not push the subject. ]

Then you'd know about the institute and what they tried to accomplish. Marie was another child there with me.

[transam]

[His eyes narrowed as he considered this. The idea that there were more like Allelujah left in the world felt like a failure on some level. This 'Marie' was another example of something that should never have happened, and what they were fighting against.]

...I'm not sure whether that's lucky or unlucky for you, but. It's good to not be alone.