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[ It's so strange to be able to type again. After literally years of having to handwrite written messages, it's odd to use a phone again. It's perhaps that more than anything which sees him putting up this post onto the social media network. It's form a "newbie" and it might be out of place with the growing dark climate with the flickering lights and rotting foot, but it's something he throws out all the same.

And it's...! ]

Soooo!! Does anyone know any god date spots in the castle? Anyone already sailing the seas of romance before now, or is the stark soldiery we've been pushed towards put a quash on romance in the name of stoic friendship? Let's hear those stories, people! Crushes, illicit affairs, pining, maybe even marriage?! You can trust your tales to the Love Hunter Masa.

O o o r r r . . .

How about a game? ♥ We could do truth or dare if you like but while we're all a little hungry, how about word association! I'll even start us off:

Third Party.

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[ Well he's proud of his girl! He's proud and what's more, he wants to try to impress upon Zuko that they're on top of things. That said, patting the mouse on the head again, he nods ]

It's a unit of measure for the pressure of electricity in my world. I'm no physicist, but the jist is that volts measure the strength of the charge, and then amps is how fast the charge can flow. You combine those to determine the power when it actually hits or powers something.

[ He may or may not have tried to explain that with hand signs representing a garden hose ]

[If anything, the hand gestures almost hinder her comprehension of this explanation, but "unit of measure" is pretty easy to grasp. Even if she has no idea how you measure that. She's just going to file it under the broad category of technology that's too advanced for her.]

It's nowhere near that strong when you're using it to power things though, right? Like a washing machine.

[Do washing machines run on electricity? Or would that be dangerous since there's water in them.....]

In Japan I think we're usually powering a washing machine with a hundred volt cable? I think it's like that... I only really became interested in electricity because of her, so I'm working from behind.

[ He hums a little, folding his arms before he nods. ]

That said, she's really good at controlling her output.

[ Linda, for her part, is still trying to look cool. For Zuko and Kizuna with a puffed out stomach ]

[So ten thousand volts is..... a lot of washing machines.]

It just sounds dangerous for something that people use all the time.

But I guess steam burns, too.

[Kizuna continues to be impressed by Linda! But Zuko is happy to maintain a healthy distance.]

Mmmhm. And a surprising number of people kill themselves on train tracks. For better or worse, if we don't want to accept the risks of nature, we have to accept the risks of society.

[ And given he lived in Tokyo... Even if he did get some survivalist impressions in Luceti at different times, he's incredibly nostalgic to return to an urban environment, someday. ]

[There's a flash of confusion on Zuko's face about the train tracks bit. She hasn't exactly ridden many trains in her life, so it seems like an oddly specific thing to mention.]

Um. I guess so.

Then again, what do I know? The leading cause of death back where I've been for years was "genocidal cultists" and following it was probably "giant wolf god"

[ It's self-depreciating humor, but he laughs at his own joke here, shaking his head with a shrug ]

I don't see how that's anything to laugh about.

[Zuko would probably say that about most things considering how long it's been since she laughed, but we're talking about death here. How is death supposed to be funny?]

It isn't, really.

[ But he trails off from the laugh with a long exhale, shaking his head and smiling down at the dragon briefly before looking back at Zuko, a more neutral expression on his face.]

I don't mean to make things seem too grim for Aang-kun or Katara. The later in particular is one of the strongest people I know, and that wolf god's not really around anymore.

[ Because, he assumes, she must mean more for their sake than just the morality of it ]

I'm not worried about them. They can take care of themselves, and each other.

[There's no way either of them would get taken down by a giant wolf god or whatever a cultist is.]

[ She's not worried at all... huh. He frowns a little, but then exhales long, arching his head back to look up at the ceiling. Huh... ]

Well, that's good someone's not.

[ He rumbles from one foot to the other and then shakes his head ]

But okay, okay, no controversy.

[It's good someone's not worried? But the only other person who even knows they're there to worry about is...

He's worried?]

Time doesn't move back home while we're here anyway.

[ -! ]

You know that for sure.

[ Other people - including her - hadn't mentioned that before now. The implication he'd gotten was that not many people had gone back and then returned here, so it was less clear because there wasn't empirical evidence.

But he leaned forward now, his gaze harder and much more insistent. His whole demeanor changed on a dime there, as if this was a worry he'd had for the last few days ]

Someone from home showed up here last month. He had no idea I'd been here eight months already. It was still the same day I'd left there.

[There's nothing in Zuko's tone to indicate that it's a big deal, but try having that worry for eight months.]

From your version of your world, for sure?

[ . . . . He wonders how insane he sounds. Even people in Luceti might've thought he was being paranoid. But it's a fair question all things considered. If she's been here this whole time, if it's accepted... then she wasn't here because of a Shift. But even if she was-

Well, all worlds are real. ]

[Her version of her world... She almost clarifies that she's not talking about her original world, like he probably thinks.

But that's not really relevant, is it? There could be other versions of the Bastion, maybe. She doesn't want to think too hard on it. And she doesn't want to talk about the difference. Not now.]

For sure.

[ For sure...

He exhales. Honestly, he didn't even think it could be possible that a castle like this wasn't outside of time, but with a lack of information comes doubts. Actually, in that moment, a lot of tension leaves him, perhaps more than he even thought he had built up in himself. Linda tilts her head looking almost concerned because of it. But the next moment, he's chuckling, ]

With how many years I've spent outside time, I should get a medal.

I don't think they give medals for that sort of thing.

[Says Zuko, winner of the Not As Much of a Jerk as You Could Have Been award.]

Probably not, no.

[ And he's got a soft smile on his face as he looks up to make eye contact in saying that. Less bombastic, but also a little more sincere than some of his others. ]

You've been helpful, Zuko-chan. If you want some more stories about Aang-kun or Katara or the others, they aren't quite mine, but I can tell you whenever.

[......maybe he's an okay person.]

Maybe some other time.

I thought so.

[ After all, he did sort of drag her out here... even if it was by accident, in a way. He looks back to his phone, flips it open, and then lifts a more smirking face to her ]

I'll be counting on you from here though.

Counting on me?

[Zuko looks surprised. What has she done to warrant that statement?]

Well, we will be working together.

[ Wink. A wink and a little shift from one leg to the other. In a way, it's a cultural quirk - he's Japanese, and so to ask someone to look after them (with a promise he'll do his best to do the same) seems natural in this context to him even years later ]

[Zuko, on the other hand, has learned time and again that people aren't going to depend on her unless she's earned it. She's run into a few of the quick-to-trust types, but she didn't think Masaomi was one of them.

Maybe it's some transference from how he feels about the other Zuko? She gets that with Rin.]

Oh. Of course.

I do my best.

[ Honestly, he isn't.

But... ]

Same here. I'll be doing my best too.

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