catch up

Avantika hadn't seen her best friend in a while. He'd been in a coma, and she'd been lost in her work as always. But she missed talking to him. She remembered his relentless enthusiasm fondly. He'd grown angry after Resin's death, but so had everyone. There was a time she'd thought that little naive Rudy'd never grow up. Had he?

They had stuff to talk about, too. The good and the bad. A big part of the good was Audra, but there was also her promotion to Templar and the way that Art had talked about her recently. He'd know how much that meant to her. The bad was mostly related to Chimera. She could tell him about what that man had said to her. She could trust him.

She wanted to tell him everything. It was a rare impulse for her, but hey, Rudy was a rare kind of person.

She wandered about the castle, trying to find him.

"Speech"