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[Cassian and Kay's house is often lively and, while Kay is trying to keep what is happening behind him mostly out of frame, Cassian and some pokemon can be spotted.]

Does anybody know a good blacksmith that can weld my wedding ring into place? [Kay raises his left hand and sure enough, there's a white gold ring around his finger.] It keeps falling off because my frame's too smooth and I don't want to lose it by accident.

[Any attempts at seriousness are ruined when there's a yelp, a shout of] Galantea! Get back here right now! [and then there's a Sylveon wearing a tiny tuxedo throwing herself at Kay smugly crowing Sylveon! Sylveon! Cassian appears a moment later, plucking her from Kay’s shoulder. If you look closely, you can see a matching wedding ring on Cassian’s hand, worn along with the gunmetal-grey ring made of Kay’s frame he’s been wearing since Christmas.]

That’s it, you’ve been wearing this tux since the wedding. Enough now. [For his troubles, he gets his cheek licked– slowly and slobbery and with great relish. He finally notices the phone in Kay’s hand.] If you’re going to announce it, you might as well tell them we’ll be unavailable for our honeymoon.

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[There was a noticeable hesitation on Mai's end at the question--which somehow seemed to catch her off-guard, even though it was natural for one to be curious. They were just talking about her birthday, after all. And yet...it's been so long since she'd really stopped to think about it.]

[She didn't mind him asking. It was just...]

It's...a bit complicated.

[In a way beyond merely being out of synch due to time travel.]

Oh, right...[ Never ask a woman their age, it's rude Kay. ]

My bad, forget I asked.

That’s alright.

[The irony was, had the answer been more straight-forward, she might have taken offense. A little. Age was something she had never given much consideration to, even before, but it was extremely forward for someone to come right out and ask.]

[Physically...perhaps even mentally and emotionally...she was 29. Give or take a year; the exact ages they’d reverted to after Pilaf’s Wish had never been completely made clear. But, for all intents and purposes, she’d been a toddler again and grew up the way any other child in those circumstances could. She thought of herself as such.]

[It was just the memories that lingered. How much of her old life she could still recall. Experiences. Encounters. Not all of them positive, sure, but she knew as well as anyone that people changed over time. In her case, for the better.]

[But how to explain that to...anyone, really? Let alone someone who didn’t know about Dragon Balls.]

I’m older than I look. Let’s put it that way.

[Deliberately leaving out a definitive number.]

[ He only asked out of curiosity, since they were talking about b-day parties.

It's a really complicated situation for her but Kay comes form a galaxy where a lot of different species mix. Age is a relative thing, he wouldn't find it so odd if he knew. ]

Got it. It's the opposite with droids, we act much older than we are...for the most part. I'm 13 years old.

[There was a nod on Mai’s end, and one could see the gears turning. Artificial Intelligence was beyond her area of expertise—she would have had better luck asking Pilaf about something like that—but she was both knowledgeable enough in mechanical engineering and had worked alongside Bulma enough to make a few educated guesses on the subject.]

I suppose that makes sense. Your consciousness begins already filled with information, making you far more advanced than your typical newborn.

[Kay likes talking to her, knowledgeable or not. Not a lot of people cared to understand droids, even in his world, so he's used to explain thing from time to time.]

Exactly. We are all built with a purpose and upgrade our knowledge and processor the more we interact with others. Not all droid owners allow that. The Empire puts controlling devices on us or wipes their memories regularly.

Just another reason why they're the worst.

[Mai chose to remain silent on the thought of the Androids from her universe. The ones who had been created with a purpose, indeed. Who upgraded. Grew stronger and stronger the more they interacted with others.]

[That was a story for another time. Maybe.]

I'm sorry you had to go through that. Truly.

[ There are means droids in Kay's world as well but the real villains are those who program them to be that way. ]

Thanks. There are droids here, specially in Nova city that doesn't have free autonomy either but a friend of mine and I are thinking about improving things in some way. Do you know L3?

[L3. Another droid, judging from Kay's words, which made searching her memories that much easier.]

No, I don't think so.

You're the only droid not from my universe I've met here.

[ Got it on the first try, Mai. ]

She's very interesting and has a lot of personality.

[ Let's go with that... ]

[The corners of Mai's lips twitched at the deliberate choice of phrasing.]

You do realize there are some who could say the same about you?

...oh.

I guess maybe it's a droid thing, uh?

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