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Who: Dr. Stein and you!
Where: The plaza
When: Right after his arrival! (Tuesday, Jan 29)
Status: Open

[There are some people who don't mind getting soaked to the skin. There are some people who do mind it. Stein is one of those people who acts a bit like a wet cat, removing his lab coat and shaking it out, carding his hands through his hair and trying to flick out the water, and making an annoyed expression at the general wetness involved in arriving in Vatheon.

This does mean that the tall, scarred man with the metal bolt stuck through his head is not exactly looking where he's going.]

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[Wow Maka way to derail him from towels and questions. 1. His lab is here. 2. There's someone else living in it.]

How did that happen?

Simply because you were gone and some other scientist types discovered it, Professor.

[It's not like it was an epic story or something.]

[Some other scientist types took over his lab.]

I'll have to go talk to them.

["Talk."]

How have you been?

Fine.

[...Well that was an awfully terse answer to come from Miss Albarn over here.]

I'm living my life here as best I can.

[His soul perception activates, drags along Maka's in curiosity. The Grigori aspect is getting stronger, wings becoming more obvious. But there are other changes, differences to personality that seem less positive. The lingering sense of Death's wavelength, like a noose, like a collar around the neck of a rabid dog, like

He cranks his bolt backwards, ratcheting until it clicks.]

I'm sure you are.

[Oh she felt that. And she's none too pleased with it, but...she can understand why he did it at the same time.]

It's been over a year now since I arrived, it'll be two years in April.

[But enough about her.]

What's the last thing you remember about our world, Professor?

You're all grown up now, aren't you?

[How old is she now, sixteen, seventeen? A more grown up version of the girl he just saw earlier that day.

Speaking of earlier that day...]

We were about to get into a fight with Arachnophobia over the magic tool BREW. What's the last thing you remember?

Wow...

[That's really far off.]

Soul and I killed Arachne a long, long time ago. It was her soul that was used to make Soul into a Death Scythe. I'm a two star Meister now and we discovered that Asura is on the moon and we were going after him.

[A beat as a flash of pain crosses her face.]

And...Crona...Crona killed Medusa and went off to join with the Kishin.

[.... That's a lot to take in.]

The moon.

Yeah.

[It's been a long, long time.]

...And my birthday was a few days ago, I'm 17 now. The only other person from our world that's here is Kid, Soul...was, or is but in a coma, but I don't think he's coming back.

[He wonders if he's still sane in Maka's timeline, if he's fallen completely apart and been put down like a rabid dog, or if he's still able to maintain enough semblance of sanity to stay in a teaching position.]

That's a pity. I would have liked to see his Death Scythe form.

...He looks kind of like a bird.

[Maka what.]

Which is appropriate since we can fly, though it's not the reason we can.

[... a bird... hmmm.]

A toucan?

[He'll get into the Grigori topic in a bit.]

Yeah! A toucan!

Anyway, there's a brochure you can look at for the rest of the information about Vatheon. [And he'll get handed one right now.] And, uh...if you want to come over to the villa, get something warm to eat and drink, you're free to. My boyfriend's a great cook.

[Oh was that too much information again.]

[....

....

hold the phone.]

Your, uh, boyfriend?

[Maka, you made the professor say "uh".]

...Yes, boyfriends tend to be a thing that happen when you're in the same place for years.

[She can't even bring herself to be embarrassed anymore.]

Does this boyfriend of yours have a name?

That depends, are you going to antagonize or threaten him?

...Sir?

[Face it, Maka, you've missed him.]

Probably both.

[Where'd that scalpel come from?]

No.

[And that's final.]

We've been together six months, he hasn't hurt me and he's not going to. You know as well as anybody I wouldn't tolerate that.