((Maxim has a very thick Eastern European derived accent- I apologize if it gets confusing. Maxim is a 'Jägermonster' - they doesn't really have any special 'powers' persay, but have superhuman strength and resiliency as well as highly enhanced senses of smell (and hearing in Maxim's case). His right arm is mechanical, but, doesn't appear to be '
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Also, there was a metal hand. This was the second guy with a metal hand she'd seen here. Maybe this place needed a quota of metal-hand-guys.
She was about to open with You have a metal hand, but it hadn't gone well last time she tried that, so instead she started with, "The what huh?"
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Maxim flashed a bright smile at Codex- as seemed the case at Hogwarts, she was rather oddly dressed, and he expected she'd have some strange questions to ask him. Of course, he had questions too, and, playing questions and answers with a girl as pretty as Codex wasn't so bad.
But, when the question came, he found himself stumped. One about his metal hand would have been much easier- Maxim liked his metal hand, knowing that it looked pretty awesome. Perhaps a more intelligent individual would have recognized babbling when they heard it, but, Maxim just thought it was an extra challenging question. "De. . .vy mebbe vat for?" was his eventual and equally cryptic response.
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Gah.
"Huh who the what now?" she asked, more confused than ever.
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Again, Maxim stood there looking confused a moment, before venturing a reply, based mainly upon the words 'who' and 'what', and upon the presumption that Codex was possibly foreign. "Hy's Maxim," he said, pointing at himself with his metal hand, which indeed functioned just like a usual hand, and saying his name as slowly and clearly as possible. He also spoke rather louder than necessary, and paused a bit between each word, as if this would somehow help with communication. "Hy ( ... )
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"CODEX," she said loudly, pointing to herself, since he had just introduced himself. She was pretty sure he had just introduced himself. What was it about weird accents that made people start talking really loud and slow? She shook her head. "I mean, I'm Codex. Hi. I'm a, uh, person."
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"The wh-yeah, the Hat. Uh, yeah, I think so. I didn't mean to come here, or anything. It just kind of... happened. I don't know if it was kidnapping? There weren't any vans or blindfolds or anything like that involved, I was just going to leave my apartment and..." She trailed off, motioning to the Sorting Room.
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"Dat sounds a lot like how hy got here. Hy vas just in de audience mit de Jägergenerals, und den hy vas here. Dere vasn't any blindfolds or any sparky-schtuffs. Dere vasn't even a fonny sound or a vierd flash of light or anyting at all. Hy vas just dere vun minute, den here anotter."
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