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[PDA switches on with a muffled lazy groan and a blanket is slowly brushed off of bare skin]
...what a night....
Mel... [shifts] Where...?
[straightens up to see her side of their impromptu bed empty//there is a lover's smile in his sigh as he prepares a message for her and sends it//]
UNKNOWN USER. MESSAGE CANNOT BE SENT.
Hm.
[tries sending the message again only to get the same result//twice, thrice more, no luck//there is now an edge to his voice as he tries raising her on audio]
Melaka? Melaka, you there? Hey...
[only static answers him//he gets dressed in haste and makes a dash for Paj-Epta, calling for the Slayer all the while//upon arrival, his voice dies when his worst fear is confirmed: nothing remains of the woman he loved]
...no...goddammit... not you...
OOC: Backdated to the morning of Feb 15, after he and Mel spent the night together. He'll have used a day or two to recover.