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"Xaldin!"

Teja has jumped up from where he was sitting, and walks over to Xaldin, rapidly and spirited.

"It is good to see you again, my friend!"

He smiles at the Goth and nods, "Thank you, Teja. It's been some months, hasn't it? How have you been?"

"I have been busy," Teja says, "busy learning the soul and ways of my beloved; busy with a friend who went off the deep end for a while, and took drugs. Busy finding my own freedom, and trying things I never dreamt of while alive."

"Sounds productive." he smiles a little, "I, too, have been busy. Looking for a place that the lessers can stay when we figure out how to give them hearts."

"How many are there, of them?" Teja asks.

"Trillians." he says softly, "We need a planet that we can terraform."

"Terraform," Teja says. "Shape like earth?"

"Yes. Take a dead world, and make it live. It won't be easy, but those of us who are left should be able to do so - it requires us to find a world that has nothing living on it already. It will not suffice if we destroy anything else in order to build anew."

"That is right," Teja says. "And from what I hear, there are many, many worlds called planets out in the universe, and only very few have people living on them."

Pause.

"Is it science or magic you would use upon it?"

"Xaldin!" says a very happy Guildmaster. "It's been years since I've seen you!"

And she does look different. A little bit older and, though it's due to a different reason, a noticeably bigger chest.

"How have you been?"

"Busy." he says with a smile dipping to drop a kiss on her hair "You look wonderful, Mia. As always."

She gives him one of those giggles he hasn't heard for a while.

"Let's see if you're still saying that in a few months."

But she does look good today. She went swimming today and is still in the bikini. She has a terrycloth coverup on her shoulders to wrap around herself should she get cold or feel immodest.

"Busy with what?"

If permitted, she'll reach up to pet his dreads. She likes the little flecks of white!

He tilts his head into the hand and grins a little. He's glad someone likes the difference.

"Looking for a dead world capable of supporting life with some help."

It gives his hair character.

"Seems like something the legends at home would have information about. I can check for you, but I don't know if there's going to be anything useful in there unless you've got a deity lined up to work some life into a planet."

She shrugs.

"I can take a look during my down time, work it into my huge stack of reading. I've only got a few things that are time sensitive."

"No gods." he makes a face "I won't believe in anything that didn't believe in me. We have our own powers, enough to get things started."

"Fair enough," she says. "Let me know if I can help out, provided it's not too strenuous. My body's been going crazy with fatigue and mood swings."

"Pregnant?" it's a guess based on body changes and her current comments "Right now it's leg work, and that's all me."