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03 ☢ i'm gonna make this place your home

[He's starting to catch on to how this works, now. When he speaks up, it's tentative but hopeful. There are people he misses, misses so much, and if he has even the smallest chance of talking to them he's got to take it.]

My name's Kieren Walker. I'm, um. I'm looking for the Walkers, from Roarton? And anyone - who remembers me, I suppose.

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. . . I didn't even ask if you're okay.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

[Is he? He's not sure. But he's been weak enough lately, needed Kieren to shore him up too often, and right now he can't ask that of him. Simon loves Amy, but she's Kieren's before she's his.

He could love Amy when she needed to be loved. He can be okay for Kieren.]

Yeah, I'm okay.

Yeah.

[He's not sure he believes it - but if that's the story Simon wants to tell right now, then he'll at least accept it. He even offers a soft smile, ever so briefly.]

Someday it'll be like this again all the time.

I know it will.

[It takes him a second, but he returns the smile.]

All this and more.

[He has a deal too, after all. It won't just be him and Kieren and Amy; it will be them and all the Redeemed together, and it will be glorious, he knows.]

[He doesn't question it; thinks of it as rhetorical. It makes him smile all the wider, leaning back in his seat.]

Thank you.

Always. You know that.

Do you want me to come by after--?

[He'd be happy to be there right now, but he wants Kieren and Amy to have whatever privacy they need.]