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[rheecon]

Who: Glenn and your face
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: On the Goldstone if you want
When: Right after Maggie goes into cryosleep

broadcast; voice

[ He's taken a little while to try to keep it together, to check the roster, to make sense of it against what he's learned about the Fleet so far, and to at least get himself leveled out enough to talk. ]

Maggie is, um... she's not on the ship. She's still on the roster, but she's not here.

[ A pause, a steadying breath, and onward - ]

I know that's supposed to mean she'll be back, but if anyone's been through this, if it was you or if it was someone you know here... how long are people gone when this happens? And they do all come back, right? As long as they're still on the roster? [ A moment - ] Are they okay?

[ That's... a lot to start with, he knows. It's everything that matters. And then, ]

Thanks. To anyone who answers.

[ Someday he'll post something nice and fun. Really. ]

Comments

[passingthrough]

That is pretty close. I should add "are you married to anyone here" when I meet people as one of my go to questions. Then again, it might sound like a pick up line. A really bad pick up line.

[rheecon]

[ He manages a little chuckle there. ]

It kind of does... doesn't really come up super naturally either, really.

[passingthrough]

No, I guess it wouldn't. I suppose that's what rings are for, but with all the different cultures meshing together here it's not a very clear sign either. [She has a ring hung on a chain around her neck now but for awhile it was on her finger and as much as she wanted it to mean what it looked like it meant, it didn't. Not with the guy who tried to give it to her back in his home world. Always smarter to be with someone where you're from. Her heart is notriously dumb.]