scien and throné the french adjacents

[egodist]

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[naeddre]

I can't say I wouldn't have been.

[a beat.]

It's good to have you back on the living side, Scien. Shoma missed you.

[egodist]

[he laughs faintly at that]

The brat is too sentimental. [though the nickname clearly comes without malice]

I'm sure your many fans from the Helly Belly are similarly happy to reunite with you.

[naeddre]

Fans. [she says, amused.] Friends, perhaps. I did miss a good number of you, including you.

I'm sorry that I did not write. I figured you wouldn't have cared to read sentimentality.

[egodist]

You shared your sentiments in other letters, which is more than I expected.

[he truly thought that most of the ship would just forget him or not care about his existence]

So don't apologize. [a beat] It is better for us to reunite this way.

[than any sooner, or her on the other side]

[naeddre]

I'm glad that you saw them.

[she figured viktor would pass it along, but it's good to have confirmation.]

... But I agree. I prefer it like this. I did not want to die. [not that anybody wanted to, necessarily, but.] And now none of us will have to, so long as the ship doesn't find some way to turn the tables on us once more.