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[yersmalltime]

[a frequency that hasn't been used in a month suddenly comes to life//the first sound it broascasts since going offline is a body falling through branches and crashing into the snow]

Nngh...

[a scuffle and a click indicates he has risen to one knee, gun drawn]

What is this? Where----?

[he reaches into his pocket for a radio, but his voice trails off

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[darkrangerqueen]

Leon. [Pause; she's not quite sure how to continue.]

You've been gone for nearly a month.

[The question of how long it has been for him remains unspoken, but still in the air.]

[yersmalltime]

...Sylvanas. [an awkward moment for the normally composed agent, with so much going unsaid; if there was a reason he wanted to see this cursed place again, she was one of them]

A month? For real? But it's been a whole year for me.

[darkrangerqueen]

...There have been several important developments in your absence. But the news can wait.

You should see Melaka.

[yersmalltime]

You're right. I will.

[you hear him make motions of tucking the PDA aside, but he stops short of doing so and clears his throat... then he finally speaks in a decisive 'to hell with it' sort of way]

Sylv?

...it's good to hear from you again.

[darkrangerqueen]

[Her tone is about the same.] You too.

[yersmalltime]

[if it's possible to sense a smile over the network, Sylv would//she'd also know, deep down, that Leon's reporting to her right after he's seen Mel]