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[Look at who's back! Jaime adjusts the angle a little before appearing on camera. He hasn't been gone long enough to age any more than he has living in Heropa, which means that the only tangible change is that he's looking awfully tired... but that could just as easily be because he's facing finals back home. Either way, he's offering the screen a little smile.]

Hey, everyone. I'm back... and it looks like I've missed Thanksgiving too. Which means it's a good time to say thank you. I, um, saw that post that Wally made once I went missing, and you guys said a lot of nice things. So thank you, it meant a lot to me, and I'll have to do my best to live up to all that. I'm thankful for you guys too, y'know?

[Like Wally predicted, he definitely cried. A lot. It was a mess. He coughs into one hand, looking slightly embarrassed for having had to openly confront all those nice things, so he's quick to move on.]

Anyway, does anyone else here think we hafta just stop trying to keep track of our age when we keep getting Ported in and out like that? 'Cause I dunno about you, but I have no idea how old I'm supposed to be anymore. I'm just graduating grade 11 back home, but here, I'm taking college classes.

I say we give it up and I can just start going by twenty-one.

[ SENT AS A TEXT MESSAGE TO ALL HIS CLOSE CR PRIOR TO THIS POST: ]

I'm back now. Sorry I took so long.

[ ooc: to anyone who wants to thread out returns or anything else, please hit me up and I'll write a starter for us at my open log! Or you can drop a starter there yourselves -- either one works! ]

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[He shakes his head.]

Thanks for offering Ellie, but... ain't nothing anyone can do about stuff like this.

[All that's left is waiting, and moving on. Ellie knows that well.]

I know. I just thought I'd offer in case...you know there was something. It's not...easy, when there's nothing left to do but wait and try to deal the best you can.

I know. I can handle it, Ellie, I promise. I mean... that's how you dealt with it too, right?

For the most part. But I wouldn't really want people to deal with things the exact same way I did.

Well... why not?

[What's the alternative?]

I don't know if you noticed from my dream but I took some of it a little...extreme. [ Deal with things by focusing on survival at all costs. ]

Okay, maybe, but that's kind of a different case, don't you think? I mean... you had all of those things to deal with.

Sometimes I wonder if that really clanged me that much or if I was always extreme. [ Situations like hers had a way of bringing out the bad in a person an pushing it forward so that was all there was. ]

But you're not like that here. That's gotta mean something.

I'm not like that all the time here. Sometimes...it slips.

[Jaime frowns. He sure hasn't seen it slip before... or at least he doesn't think he has.]

Really? Like when?

You wouldn't. You'd...be the last person I'd want to see that.

Okay, so when did you feel like you had to do something like that here? Because I don't think you would unless, you know, circumstances got pretty bleak.

Oh, no. I've never felt like I've had to do anything like that here. When shit's gone down though I always think of survival first.

But not just your own survival. Not even in your dream -- not in the end, anyway.

Yeah, I guess, not completely.At least I've always had that going for me, I didn't lose that completely.

Honestly, Ellie, I don't think you ever would.

I appreciate that.

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