VOICE MAIL

[inspirethefire]

"This is Hajime Tanaka. I'm sorry to have missed you. Leave a message. Call for me if necessary!"

((Voice mail or texts. His phone is deliberately cheap and low-tech; he doesn't do e-mail, and generally prefers face-to-face whenever possible.))

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[awakeningwill]

[Boy, and did Zero know it. No one was more aware of his flaws than himself, and few were harsher critics.

Satisfied enough with his work for now, however, he gathered up his tools and stood up.]

Speaking from experience... balance goes both ways. That's what makes for a strong partnership.

[inspirethewires]

[Partnership... all Hajime could think of with that word were the ones gone away. X had surely provided more balance for Zero than Hajime could start to understand. And Kiyotaka... gone back to the place that killed him, while Hajime moped. He'd said he'd return, and yet...

Hajime sat up as best he could, with his ribbon-plugs set in.]

Zero, how... old are you...?

[awakeningwill]

[That question took Zero a bit by surprise, and he paused to actually consider it. If he came from 23XX, and he was built sometime during Rock's era in 20XX...]

I suppose... around three hundred, technically.

[Mind you, this was including all the time he spent in stasis, which was well over a hundred years on its own already.]

[inspirethewires]

[Technically. There were some gaps in there, but it still made him far older than any human Hajime knew of.]

So these bodies are... pretty durable.

[In the worst case scenario... well. With a life that long, a person was bound to leave an impact, one way or another.]