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[sand_wormie]

Zekk's gone.

[He absolutely has not cried. Bloodshot eyes? Water-spattered collar from washing his face very recently? Talking in a monotone? There's some perfectly reasonable alternate explanation.]

I thought people should know.

[And feed cuts off.]

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[wrongwayidiot]

[Amy knows this feeling all too well.]

Oh, Luke. I'm so sorry. If...if you need someone to talk to, I'm here, okay?

[sand_wormie]

[When he responds - which isn't right away - he's at a workbench, propping his chin in his hand.]

Yeah...

[sigh.]

"Through dying suns and midnights grim," y'know.

[wrongwayidiot]

[Well...no. She can't say she does...So she'll just stare at him a bit quizzically, but soften her expression after a moment.] I've never heard that one before. Is it something they say often where you're from?

[sand_wormie]

Huh...?

[Focus, Luke.]

Oh. Oh, sorry. It's part of this old song or poem my aunt told me. I don't remember the whole thing.

'Through dying suns and midnights grim
And treachery, and faith gone dim
Whatever dark the stars may send
We'll meet again at journey's end.'

...Right like rain, I guess.

[packing_again]

If you want to drop by, I can see if I somehow acquired the ability to bake cookies. I've never tried it before, but how bad could it be?

[sand_wormie]

If you... what?

[yeah, it took a moment longer than usual for language/implication comprehension to kick in. Congrats, he is successfully distracted, at least for a moment.]

Nooo... you'd better let me do that.

[packing_again]

[Mission: accomplished.]

... it couldn't be that bad, could it?

[sand_wormie]

I freelance in fixing things. I've seen it get that bad.

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[soloing]

I'd felt as much.

I'm sorry, Luke.

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[sand_wormie]

It doesn't feel like death. It's just - gone.

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[soloing]

Because it isn't death. Zekk's merely gone back the regular course of his life. It's happened to him one before, and he returned, five years older. He could return again. Maybe an old man this time. [His eyes smile at the tiny joke, trying to add some levity to the situation. He feels... resigned to it, now that Jaina's left. It only makes sense to him that Zekk would follow her, somehow, impossibly]

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[sand_wormie]

[Luke says something to himself that the 'pad doesn't perfectly pick up - it sounds like 'Wonder if that'll happen to me'.]

[and his own attempt.]

I'd have to find something else to tease him about, then.

[catlordbeyond]

Zekk was your friend?

Revan just sends people back sometimes, right? I think Claudia is gone, too.

[sand_wormie]

Yeah... I guess so. I liked him, anyway.

I'd like to ask him why. Um... sorry about your friend. I don't think I know a Claudia.

[catlordbeyond]

Well, he probably got to go home. That's good, right?

Yeah. Claudia wasn't here long, but she was- fun. She was going to let me modify a datapad with her. [And he so likes tech!]

[sand_wormie]

I'll miss him, though.

Yeah... What were you going to do?

[imrambling]

Gone? You've lost someone?

[sand_wormie]

He... disappeared. Went home.

Uh. It's - something that happens, sometimes. There's never really warning.

[imrambling]

Oh. I'm sorry.

But then he's gone home? [Someone else explained that part to her.] That's something to be glad for?

[sand_wormie]

I... guess? I mean, it's not like he's dead, it's just... he's not here.