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[lackofdarkwings]

There was a certain poetic irony in being released from GlaDOS now. While Matt was feeling really good about himself, there was probably something important he had missed. Even with Aqua's support that had stayed with him, he needed to go see the woman and talk about the darkness that he had noticed creeping up once in a while during when GlaDOS

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[drowpaladin]

Maydril had never dealt with the wicked computer, at least to her knowledge, but she had heard tales told of it quite enough and had lost friends and family both to it, at times. Why dignify it with a name?

The sudden appearance, or reappearance in this case, of Matt certainly explained a few things. She hurried her pace in an attempt to catch up, silently cursing her shorter legs all the while.

"Matt! That is you, yes?" she called.

[lackofdarkwings]

"May!" Relief flooded him as he slowed down to a stop, turning to look at her. She was a sight for sore eyes, especially since everyone else got out of GlaDOSes clutches weeks ago.

"What's up?"

[drowpaladin]

"Are you all right?" That was the first question out of her mouth--and of course it had to be. Maydril was well aware of what was going on, even if she did not entirely understand it.

She clapped a hand on his shoulder in a hailing gesture, and abruptly tugged him into a hug.

[lackofdarkwings]

A hug. Wow, May was never this forward. Something was up. Although his arms came up to hug her back, he asked softly, "There's something terribly wrong, isn't there?"