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[flyingsolos]

Tons better. Are you done teleporting everywhere?

[parttimes]

Thankfully, yeah. I'm pretty sure I scared years off of some peoples' lives that way.

[WHOOPS.]

[flyingsolos]

Including mine.

For the record.

[parttimes]

... Yeah, sorry.

[IT WAS NOT ON PURPOSE.]

Anyway...we're nowhere near any Eclipses, but powers are kind of weird here anyway, right? Wanna see if we can summon our Soul Devices?

[flyingsolos]

Definitely.

... It's weird, I was so used to using it pretty much every day...

[ And she stares down at her Xiphone. ]

It hasn't felt the same without it.

[parttimes]

Yeah, I feel you... well.

[A slow breath in.]

Here goes nothing.

[He plants his finger on the app, drags his finger across the screen to activate it and--

VOILA.

SOUL DEVICE.]

[flyingsolos]

-- It worked!!

[ He can see that, Rion. ]

[parttimes]

Yeah, sure did...

[He's definitely looking at his Soul Device with a touch of what's almost awe.

It's been...so long...]

... Anyway, how about yours?

[flyingsolos]

[ Rion's already giving the screen on her Xiphone an experimental swipe-- and there are her wings, appearing on her back as though they never left.

Her sigh of relief is loud and completely genuine. ]

[parttimes]

Looking good, Rion.

[He's proud! She even gets a thumbs up from him.]

So they're back, at least for now. Huh.

[flyingsolos]

Yeah... no guarantee, but at least we know our powers aren't permanently sealed.

[parttimes]

Right? I didn't expect it to affect me quite so much, but it really was sort of like missing a limb.

[He...got used to it...]

[flyingsolos]

I know what you mean.

I wonder why they decided to come back now, though.

[ Did it have to do with all of this crazy new growth? ]

[parttimes]

... Something weird is definitely going on. I'm not sure what yet, though. And honestly, it's hard to say it's entirely bad with all of this going on.