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[a1enzo]

Bob and Dot are overdue to return from their vacation. Hopefully, this just means they're having a good time. Enzo and Dani are having a nice time too, since they finally started sneaking her out for invisible looks 'round the city.

Still, there are some things that need to be done. Like packing. He'll be heading to the Academy pretty soon after she leaves. He can't bring an awful lot of stuff, which actually makes packing harder than if he were bringing everything he might want. And, of course, there are some things he really can't bring.

He examines an MPEG and a bunch of action figures. "Uh-uh. It's nothing like our Tron stories and half of it's in Userspace. My roommates would ask questions." He places them on the discard stack.

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[ami_imperfect]

"Hey!" Sorry Danny, no time to hash this out now.

Dani takes off running after Enzo, transforming and going invisible as she reaches the door.

[a1enzo]

As far as the rest of the city is concerned, Enzo is out alone, patrolling the city or just cruising on his boogie baud, as he has been a fair bit lately. Several binomes wave from the ground; Enzo salutes them cheekily as he shoots past.

[ami_imperfect]

It doesn't take long for Dani to catch up to him; after all, he didn't get that much of a head start.

She has to muffle her giggles when Enzo salutes the binomes below them. But at least the sound lets Enzo know she's there.

[a1enzo]

Enzo smiles; she's definitely seeming up to spec by now, and that's more important to him than winning.

Which isn't to say he isn't going to try. He catches an energy surge and pushes forward.

[ami_imperfect]

And she puts on some extra speed and flies after him, supressing (barely) the urge to whip out her zipboard.

If they're going to have a race, it's going to be on semi-equal footing.

[a1enzo]

Hard to say which way would be more equal, but the zipboard would probably put Dani at a slight disadvantage.

It's an odd race; except for that one giggle, Enzo has no clue where his opponent is. Well, he'll find out soon; they're coming up on the PO, and from atop the subsphere, no one should be able to see them, or at least not clearly enough to realize Enzo's got a friend up there.

[ami_imperfect]

He'll have to assure her of that, since she won't go visible again without his say-so.

[a1enzo]

Enzo pulls up and lands on the subsphere. "Dani?" he calls, not too loudly but loud enough because who's gonna hear?

[ami_imperfect]

"Yeah?"

Her response should be almost in his ear, seeing as she's currently hovering near his shoulder.

[a1enzo]

He jumps and laughs.

"You can rest if you want. I don't think anyone's gonna see us here." No one up this high but traffic, and they've got their eyes on the airlanes. (At least, they'd better.)

[ami_imperfect]

No kidding they'd better; Dani's not in the mood to witness a four car pile-up.

She fades back in to view but stays in her ghost form. "I'm doing okay," she assures Enzo.

[a1enzo]

Especially since the collided vehicles would then plummet to the ground... Yeek.

"Good." Beat. "So who won?" 'Cause he's got no way of knowing.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani thinks for a nano.

"Dunno," she says at last. "I think it was a tie."

[a1enzo]

"Cool."

He seats himself atop the floating sphere.

It's a nice view.

[ami_imperfect]

Really nice.

"It may sound kinda weird, but...I think I'm going to miss this place when Danny and I go back home," she remarks.

[a1enzo]

"Y'know," says Enzo slowly, "Mainframe needs more kids. 'Specially now that I'm going."

[ami_imperfect]

"Yeah," she agrees "but they'd have to come from other systems wouldn't they?"

It's going to be a while before Dot and Bot (and maybe Matrix and AndrAIa) bless Mainframe with the pitter-patter of little sprite feet.

[a1enzo]

Yes, but not for lack of encouragement from Enzo. Mouse and Ray would be interesting; their child would never stay put and, as a friend of the mun's noted, would be visible from orbit.

"They'd have to come from somewhere else, yeah..." He raises his eyebrows at her.

[ami_imperfect]

She sees his raised eyebrows, and blinks. "What?"

[a1enzo]

"Well, I just thought... you're living in Milliways right now, and you don't have anywhere else to go..." He looks kind of sheepish.

[ami_imperfect]

She stares at Enzo in surprise, then looks away.

"I-I don't know, Enzo," she says, looking out at the horizon. "I mean, Danny...Danny wants me to come live with him when he tells his folks..."

She'd love to move to Mainframe, but Danny kinda already promised her and she is his family...

[a1enzo]

The horizon isn't really a horizon, of course. It's where the sea is actually meeting the sky.

"Oh. I mean, that's great, and they're your family, really, so yeah, of course that's the best..." His babbling is going nowhere and he trails off.

[ami_imperfect]

She gives him a bashful smile.

"I appreciate the offer, though."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods. "Well, I mean, if you ever do need somewhere to stay..."

[ami_imperfect]

Dani nods. "I'll let you know, I promise."