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[abrightboy]

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Re: text

[abrightboy]

It wasn't bad at all. I hope it treated you okay too. I'm free now, if you want. Where do you want to meet?

text

[thedeadgirl]

actually, pretty sure i was back in another coma for all of it.

you have a problem with coming here to my cabin? i got coffee and a couch

Re: text

[abrightboy]

No problem at all. Be right there.

[Malcolm shows up about fifteen minutes later with some cookies leftover from the ones Sweeney brought him and knocks. When she answers, he smiles and holds them out for her to take.]

Hi. How are you? Is everything okay?

[thedeadgirl]

[ Laura starts the coffee, a nice house blend since she isn't sure what he prefers. He's from New York and that place has an obscene amount of cafes on every block. She's even got some variation of Coffee Mate available if he wants.

Just as it finishes brewing, he knocks and she answers. ]

Hey, yeah fine I guess. Not really sure I'm back back though.

[ She lets him through and gestures to the couch. ]

[abrightboy]

Not... back back? What do you mean? [He follows her direction and perches on the edge of the couch.]

[thedeadgirl]

I.. I don't know how to explain it. People tell me it's because I was sleeping for so long and the first time is always this big fucking experience.

[ Laura pauses, looking around before falling into the corner of her sectional. She looks at him; unsure. ]

I feel different. More calm. Less... angry.

[abrightboy]

Like... you left something behind in... wherever stasis holds your mind?

[thedeadgirl]

Maybe? Whatever that means. It's confusing as fuck but I woke up from that month-long coma not thinking about the shit that happened before I got here. Like it's some memory from a long time ago...

What do you think that means?

[abrightboy]

There are multiple possibilities, but… maybe you processed that trauma in your subconscious, while you were out. It was a longer than average coma. Maybe the Admiral thought you needed to shed that in order to move forward.

[thedeadgirl]

That means he's in my head and I'm not entirely sure if I like that thought.

[abrightboy]

Based on everything that happens here, I think we have to accept that about him, regardless.