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Hey, hi, this is Nova Storm! You found me but you also really super didn't, haha! Do the thing so I can do the other thing back, okay?

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[asceticamnesiac]

[It's a bit after their trip to the gaming convention, but once Monk has his thoughts together and everyone's had a chance to breath, he sends Nova Storm a message.]

I said I'd explain about Eden. Meet me in the sheep room and we can talk.

[In the room, Monk is settled cross-legged inside the corral with several of his alien sheep piled on and around him. He waves her over to join him.

[binary_runaway]

[Nova's startled to receive the message, even though he'd said he would explain. She's retreated to the room she shares with Skywarp since their return for the most part, wanting the security of a familiar place while she chewed over what she'd seen and heard, and just sort of assumed it would get dropped]

Sure, yeah. I'll head there now, meet you in uhhhh call it twenty?

[It takes a bit longer to find the room than she'd expected. She's never been in it before. Once she steps in and closes the door behind her, she looks up and lets out a startled, unthinking chirp as she looks around]

Oh. Oh, wow. [She doesn't sound scornful or mocking which might come as a surprise, simply surprised in a pleasant sort of way] When you said sheep room, you really-

[A shake of her head, and Nova gingerly picks her way over to him, not wanting to hurt any of the fluffballs. She finally sits with one leg drawn up, cycles her optics as a sheep immediately flops against her leg. Nova starts to reach out to touch them, then pulls her hand back, wary of being clumsy with her own strength and hurting them]

[So she drops her hand back down, and looks over at him for the first time] Yeah. Eden. [She shuffles uncomfortably, and looks away, muttering in his direction] Sorry. For... I didn't know. Still don't, obviously. But I shouldn't have. To you, either.

[asceticamnesiac]

[Monk chuckled a bit at her reaction to the room, and the sheep. Her hesitation was unwarranted, and it wasn't long before one of the creatures had come over to lay down next to her hand.]

You will not hurt them, they are very resilient.

[He pointed to the sheep.]

Moon likes when you scratch behind his ears.

[He settled back, the smile leaving his face now that the actual topic was at hand.]

You would not have known, very few do. Even I do not know the full story.

[Despite feeling prepared for this he still wasn't entirely sure the clearest way to explain.]

Eden is Skywarp, but she also is not. After...Starscream...she was alone. She used her magic to split herself apart so she would always have someone with her.

[He tugged the sheep on his lap a little closer, his claws digging into the dense wool. His thoughts and feelings on the matter were hard to read. It was just a fact of what had happened, just like the fact he hadn't remembered her after the crash was a fact, or that he also had willingly given up his memories was a fact.]

Eden is one of those parts. She does not know about her old life, and does not want to. Her magic made her a target, and she agreed to come to the R2 with me as Monk, not as Thundercracker.

So while I appreciate you wanting to console her at the time, I would ask that you do not reach out to her about it.