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Who: Gale and anyone
Where: Plaza
When: Evening
Style: The style of your choosing
Status: Open, incomplete

[It's been a few days since Gale disappeared from the bubble, when he finally reappears. It's not the time for newcomers, so it's obvious from the start that something strange is going on. Anyone passing through the Plaza right now is likely to see a person in gray and orange appearing and... landing in the fountain.

Not that they can control where they land, really. But that person isn't moving... and once again, the water is turning red.

Gale doesn't move at first. Not because he doesn't recognize that he's in a different place, or that he's no longer dying. Those things registered rather immediately, as soon as he fell into the fountain. The things he said to Jenna, however, those need a moment of consideration.

Still, it's not long before he pulls himself up out of the fountain. One of his hands is still transformed, and there's a gaping hole in his armor now, but other than that, he's fine. It probably helps that the fountain has washed most of the blood off.

For once, he doesn't set out immediately, or take out his SFC. He'll just be there for a while. Almost dying is tiring.]

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We returned to the EGG and found you there. You confronted Heat again.

[And the winner was... well. Different.]

[What could have happened in the EGG that kept him alive? And he confronted Heat again...? Had he been unable to get through to Heat after all?]

What was the result?

... The opposite, this time. In the end, we did not see the final moments between the two of you.

[The opposite... Then there must have been some kind of knowledge he gained in the time to have changed his stance with Heat. Perhaps it's the knowledge of the events five years ago. The events he doesn't remember.

Serph nods, acknowledging those words.]

The city has been quiet in your absence. You haven't missed much.

[Serph turns his gaze in the direction of the Forest Quadrant.]

The base is the same.

[An implied suggestion that Gale should rest, if he feels the need.]

[He'll tell Serph in more detail if he asks, but for now, he's a bit too tired for that. He nods when Serph mentions the base- he is actually going to take Serph up on that hinted offer.]

We should return, unless you have duties to take care of.

[Serph will ask Gale what happened later, then; they have plenty of time in Vatheon compared to the Junkyard and the real world.

He nods.]

I have time.

[And he leads the way back to the base.]

[ooc: end it there? Unless there was something further you wanted to do :>]