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[cache_coeur]

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”Allô, mon amie! Je ne suis pas disponible pour le moment, mais laissez-moi un message et je vous rapellerai dès que possible! À bientôt!”

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[maellum]

[Maelle nods and swings her feet under the table.]

It still surprises me sometimes. That he's... really here. And okay. Relatively speaking.

[The same could be said for them, but his death was far worse than the Gommage.]

Does it catch you off guard sometimes, too?

[cache_coeur]

Sometimes. I think a lot about how hard it must be to be the only known person to come back from the dead.

[maellum]

[From being slaughtered. Maelle pushes that specific thought from her mind with a shake of her head.]

... yeah. Losing him was the worst thing to ever happen and getting him back has been the best. It's--a lot. It doesn't feel real.

[cache_coeur]

It doesn't. It's strange –– I keep thinking there must be a reason it's us. Everyone in Lumière, all the Expeditions, everyone in the 33, and it's just us?

[maellum]

Me too. But that's kind of the Expedition 33 theme, isn't it?

[Their Disaster Expedition.]

[cache_coeur]

True. Like it was fate to be us, and Gustave wasn't supposed to die.

[None of them were, but there's a difference, in her mind, between a slaughter and the way Gustave had been taken down. Too methodical, maybe.]

[maellum]

So it's almost like this place is setting it right.

[At the expense of Lumière, maybe. Maelle doesn't fibd herself terribly upset about that. Not with what she has here.]

[cache_coeur]

In a way.

[It isn’t the whole of it. She doesn’t even think of Lumière; she’s thinking of who else she’d want back.]

But whatever it is, or whatever’s going on… we can work through it, yeah?

[maellum]

In a way.

[She knows Gustave misses Emma. She knows he'd be overjoyed to see her, or his apprentices, or Sophie...]

It's a second chance. I'm not going to waste it by not working through it.

[cache_coeur]

Good. I know you’ll make the best of it.