[She will keep pace with him easily - Maria's also kinda running low on gas, and though Viktor's gait is wobbly, his legs are still longer than hers, and her has a wider stride.]



Well...if you can believe it, this sort of thing happened to me once before, but it was more like a...time fluctuation - a liminal space brought about from that anomaly. And...my grandfather and friend were with me then.

[She looks down a little, chewing her lip. Maria knows she can go back at any moment, all she has to do is ask, but...she kind of just wants Gerald and Shadow to come here with her. There was something about her letting Shadow go that felt so...so raw, so final...and she can sort of guess why.

If she could get even just a few more days...she would take it, to be with her family.]

I arrived several hours ago.