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Nightingale! If you don't have a job yet, I just did some stuff for a restaurant and they need cooks! I can recommend you if you're looking for anything?

OH also! I met a girl named Opal and she said she's your girlfriend! Did you meet up with her yet? She seemed really happy to know you're here!

[... AWKWARD...]

Hi, Sorey. I'd like that, if you could. Thank you.

I met her, yeah. It's, um. Not quite what you think.

She's not your girlfriend? [why would she lie tho]

Apparently we were dating. But that happened there after I had already been brought here, so it hasn't happened for me yet.

It's complicated.

Oh.

Umm, I definitely told her how to get into contact with you. Sorry. I hope it didn't cause you any trouble.

It's all right. I like her, and I'm glad to see her again, really.

Are you going to date her? [wow sorey you can't just ask people if they're gonna date somebody]

I- Maybe? I don't know? I don't even know if she wants to, considering last time I saw her from my point of view, I thought she was straight.

[good job asking the one person with no brain to mouth filter on this stuff, sorey]

Oh, that must be rough. I guess being 'straight' is a big problem? [what does that even mean

like. honest? law-abiding?]

[It's amazing how, even through voice, you can still just sort of feel the judging stare.]

Considering it would mean she isn't attracted to women, yes, it's a problem. Though I guess she isn't straight after all...?

[OHHHHH so 'straight' means 'not attracted to women' ok that...makes no sense but ok]

Well. I suppose there's no reason to assume anything. Though to be honest I'm still not exactly clear on the circumstances, but I can at least understand that things are complicated.

You guys are still friends though, right?

[... this information is going to come back to bite me later, isn't it.]

Well, yeah.

... I mean, I hope so, but the last time I saw her, she was mad at me for nearly getting killed.

[absolutely]

That just means she cares, doesn't it? She can't want to stop being your friend over that.

I hope not, especially since we clearly didn't for her, but... I mean, she had explicitly told me to not get hurt right before.

But that's totally normal. Isn't it? It's normal to not want your friends hurt. [He and Mikleo had a huge fight over that actually, though Sorey had been the one to give in at the end.] ...I guess I can see where she'd be coming from, but I don't think she could stay mad for long. Definitely not forever.

You're right...

[She sighs and hangs her head.]

This is just too confusing.

It sounds like it. But, I mean, it's not something you have to figure out right away anyhow, right? There's no hurry. You guys can take your time and talk it out.

Taking our time in places like these leads to someone vanishing. Or finding someone else. Or the Atroma deciding it'll be good for ratings if they blow up half our ships.

That last one sounds pretty extreme. [He's hoping it's not realistically extreme.] But if there's no need to take things slow...I mean, is there anything you want to ask her right now? Or tell her? You thought she couldn't love you, and now you know she has.

No. She loves the Nightingale who was at the castle much longer than I was. That Nightingale has a lot more memories of home, and knows a lot more about who we were and are than I do. That Nightingale might be a completely different person, since who knows what I remembered there?

... When I think of how many memories I must have regained in that time... Natalie probably knows more about me than I do, now. It's a bit... scary.

Scary that she knows so much about you? Or scary that she knows more about you than you do?

... Both?

[Yeah, that's fair.]

Well...do you think it could be kind of nice, too?

[She actually has to take a moment to process what he just said.]

How?

I don't know what it's like to not remember things about myself, but sometimes Mikleo knows things about me before I've even figured out what's bothering me. It's really comforting to have someone you know will be on your side know so much about you. That's how it feels for me, anyway.

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