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Well.

Gray has managed to arrive at the Cooper place, and after parking his stolen Dodge Viper beside the white Mini Cooper ~~(ahaha the narration just got that)~~, takes the scenic route back around to the front of the house.

He likes walking.

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"The monster."

Point.

"In the lake," she adds helpfully.

"...so I'd gathered."

"Apparently it's supposed to eat people, but there are a couple of guys who feed it instead. And one of them's one of you."

And thus, the conversation comes full circle.

"Ah."

(Ish, explain this.)

(Well, basically, it seems that when you're dealing with an infinite number of universes, it is inevitable that in some cases doubles of people will occur. Ish has one herself; she's nice, if a little gaudy. Gray has several, though they're not as cute as him. The krakenling is merely a fringe detail.)

Hmm.

"Thank you," he says.

Out loud, but not entirely to Jona.

Jona glees. She helped!

(Ish acts similarly, but with far more poise and dignity, she promises.)

"Any time." :D!

A quiet nod, and the ghost of a smile.

"Are you new, then?"

Jona will force you to make conversation against your very will!

"Yes."

"Where'd you come from?"

An open question deserving of a multiple-syllable answer, y/n?

He nods indicatively back along the road.

N, apparently.

She blinks.

"What, this world?"

"No."

Shrug.

"I was somewhere else first, yes. But most recently, we came from the east."

"Oh. I thought you probably weren't from here. Most people aren't. I'm not."

He couldn't be from her world, could he? He's dressed weirdly, but then again he hasn't yet commented on her feet.

"Mine's called Karock," she prompts, but without much hope.

Headshake.

"I haven't heard of it, I'm afraid."

After the whole bit with the monochromatic girlfriend, he's got high standards for weird.

"No-one else has, either."

...this is intended as a statement to let him off the hook, but it comes out as somewhat melancholy. Dang.

A very small shrug.

"Sometimes it's better that way."

See: everybody and his dog knowing about Gray's Sylar days, apparently.

Jona doesn't know about them! Whilst she does harbour a flourishing talent for being spectacularly misinformed, when it comes to genuine gossip she misses out somewhat.

See also: her utter lack of apprehension during this conversation. :D?

"Be nice if there was someone, though," she shrugs. Come on, no-one's even heard of Tryst, and that's the biggest city ever ~~that she knows of~~. It's slightly disheartening when your birthplace might as well not exist.

"I suppose so, yes."

Gray prefers it when fewer people know things about him, really.

Shame that Jona's so nosy, then!

Back to her bushy-tailed (not literally; stop staring!) self: "Is your world nice?"

"Not often."

"Oh."

...

"What's it like when it is?"

"I don't remember," he admits softly. "It was a long time ago."

Jona goes :(.

Clearly she is asking all the wrong questions, here.

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