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[singlefaith]

E-excuse me.

[There’s a young woman with wide blue eyes on the screen. She presses her lips together briefly, trying to find the right words.]

Is . . . there a way to get a message home? Either with this or with my phone?

[She has the strong sense that there isn’t any more than there is to get home in the first place. But she has to at least ask and eliminate the option before she can go any further.]

I just don’t want them to worry about me.

[Though in all truth, she’s not sure she’s completely ready for the answer.]

And Dad and Conan-kun . . . they’ll have to figure out dinner. And Sonoko may have to take some notes for me . . . for a while.

[She trails off, pressing her lips together, looking away again. Only for a moment, though, before she pulls herself back, doing her best to summon a smile.]

Thank you in advance.

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[singlefaith]

I guess so.

[A little wide-eyed here. This is definitely not a direction she's thought of before -- though then again, she's never had to, either.]

What do you mean, though, by "resonance?"

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[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita blinks. Maybe she just hasn't heard the word resonance before? Unlikely, but still.]

When you're connected deeply enough with something that you can feel its presence... or the presence of a person.

[singlefaith]

[By itself as a word, yes. The way Nita seems to mean it, though, seems to be something else.]

[She wonders if she's felt that before. There are times she thinks she thinks she's almost sensed someone in particular -- times when she's been so sure that he's there.]

[She's been wrong so many times, though. It's probably just wishful thinking.]

Is . . . that really possible?

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita gives a properly wry expression now.]

Whenever you start questioning something's possibility, something even more bizarre's going to happen in consequence. I speak from experience, I promise.

[She could provide examples, but Nita doesn't exactly know Ran's tolerance level for weirdness.]

[singlefaith]

A-Ah! [Quickly Ran waves a hand.] Not so much that! More that . . . we don't have that. At home.

[She really doesn't need anything more bizarre right now than it's already been.]

[. . . She's going to have to built up that weirdness tolerance level.]

[unfavorableinstigation]

Ahh. Sorry!

That's fair, really.

[Because while magic exists in her world, she's spent most of her life not knowing it was there.

So yyyeeah, better get building, Ran.]

[singlefaith]

[In this place it'll build fast.]

Where you come from has it, then? Resonance?

. . . What does that feel like?

[Video]

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita nods.]

... Like you're a better whole, even though you're separate.

[Because she knows better than to think that people had to be together as couples to be 'complete' or some crap like that.]

Knowing what they're going to say next, or when you're both thinking the same thing. Or, for a place, when you know when anything's just the slightest bit out of place, and if it's something to worry about.

[singlefaith]

Mm . . . [Her features smooth a little.] I think I know what you mean. Even if it's probably not the same.