[attr="class","kap"]He wasn't stopping? Maybe... maybe it just wasn't his name anymore. But it was definitely him. He hurried his pace to catch up, panic beginning to boil up noxious from his belly. What was he doing? He was following what may as well have been a stranger into a dark alley. He didn't know this man, but the carefree way he navigated away from an obvious pursuit told him one thing.

Danger.

But he still followed, panting softly as he came around the bend and saw the man as he was, sitting comfortably nonchalant on a perch. Hearing his voice again, that smooth drawl, had his eyes shutting a moment as the pain it brought with it. No matter what, he was still so much like he remembered, but all the same so very different in such a short time. "Hey..."

He rubbed the back of his neck, eyes desperately searching. The question was there, but he was afraid to ask it. Afraid to meet the man's eyes, even, and see that he was a stranger to him. "... Sorry... I just chased you and... that's not fair to you. You-" his eyes dipped down hard, "you... don't remember me, right?"

[attr="class","kap"]I don't. His eyes slam shut as he dips his head down. I don't.

His heart felt like is was going to burst.

He took a deep breath, then looked back up at the stranger's eyes. Because, he supposed, that's all they were now. There was no love to be seen in that gaze anymore. The one glimmer of hope he had was in the proposition laid out before him. "Not sure you'd like hearing much of what I have to say," he answered honestly. Who liked the idea of forgetting a loved one? Or wondering why you'd leave it all behind? Maybe, you'd think to yourself, you were trying to escape it, or there wasn't much worth clinging on to?

Still, he had to try. "My name's Kap." He familiar materialized, and he gestured to the potoo that nested himself in his wavy hair, "and this is Artemis. We were.... well, we were close." He swallowed dry, "... can I buy you a drink?" Maybe that's help things a bit. "I'll get something for Spock, too- wherever she is." He glanced up once, half expecting to see the squirrel monkey hanging above up to no good.

[attr="class","kap"]He knew that. That sounded like the Zephyr he knew. A half descent listener. He always had been, and it was one of the things he cherished about the guy, especially since Kap tended to ramble on about things. He nodded. Maybe they should talk it out, then. At least regain some amount of friendship, at the very least.

But, Zephyr had a question for him, and Kap looked him in the eyes finally, looking uncomfortable. "You er... you warned me about that," he said carefully. "We talked about you doing this- before you did it. You'd be locking up your device. I couldn't call you, or message you. I hoped you'd come home, but hoping was all I could do. I didn't see you at the CAD, or Pegasus either. This is the first time I've managed to find you since then."

He scratched the bad of his head and sighed.

"He's been a miserable mess since your departure, Zephyr. If you could offer him some minutes of your time."

You didn't have to say that.

Well, I did anyways.

He swallowed, catching Zephyr's gaze, "if anything I ask is unreasonable, it's fine to tell me that. But I just want to get the chance to get to know the-... well... get to know you again."