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Nice upgrade. 👍

[ … Yup. That's it. His plain-looking rock turned into an ~iStone~, and that's all Maine has to say. ]

[It's still an adjustment for her, but not a bad one. It's just rectifying Maine with the Meta. She knows that it hadn't been the Maine that she had known that day on the cliff, but it had been the last time that the two of them had met.

Yet it is things like this that drive home the differences, that make it clear that there is no shadow of the Meta casting over him.

It's just Maine. Steadfast and true, willing to take a bullet or ten for his teammates...]

It certainly is an improvement.

[ Steadfast, true, simmering with anger issues, and a bit of a dork when he lets his guard down. Maine can't know what a difference it is, but he's happy to see that Carolina agrees. ]

Yeah. Rocks sucked.

[ Way to put it bluntly, Maine. ]

True, although rocks were better than nothing.

Were weird. Confusing.

Some here aren't even familiar with space travel. Rock's possibly more their level.

Probably weapon level, too.

[ Because clearly people who communicate with rocks must use them as weapons, right?

(Not that Maine wouldn't bludgeon someone to death with a rock, but details.) ]

[Maine.]

Think history class. Earth. Pre-space travel. We're not talking spears and bows and arrows here.

[Not exactly the stone age...]

[ Maine knows at least one person who he thinks would fit in the 'spear, bow, and arrow' category. But naturally, he figures that Carolina knows best. ]

Roger. Haven't asked about homes.

[ Other people's homes, he means. Why would he? ]

Can learn some interesting things.

[Although that is something that Carolina has found to be interesting.]

?

[ The most abbreviated way of asking for more information. In other words: "like what?" ]

[Come on, Maine.]

Different earths. Means different history. Different tech. Different weapons.

Useful.

Sometimes.

[See? She can do one work answers too~]

Gives you something to do aside from training and exploring all the time here.

Like training.

[ And he's never been big on socializing. At all. ]

Same, but there's more to do than just training.
Ever tried a water park? Surprisingly, fun, but I didn't tell you that.

[ Maine's response is noticeably delayed. He's squinting at his iStone, trying to figure out if it might be malfunctioning. It says that he's talking to Carolina, and previous texts have sounded like her. But this one? This one is different. He can't imagine Carolina actively seeking out things to do other than training.

Eventually, he has to ask: ]

Carolina?

Yes?

[ It could be someone pretending to be Carolina. Or it could be that Carolina likes water parks. Either way, it's … strange. ]

Just checking.

Don't get me wrong. I never want to own another water park in my life.

But you can shove annoying people down the slides and listen to them scream.

Hahaha 😆

[ And then he registers something else she said: ]

Owned one?

I was out-voted.

?

[ What does voting have to do with owning a water park? ]

With what to do.
A long story.

[ Right. Carolina probably has a few of those now.

This time shit is weird. ]

Roger.

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