Late Night Call [Maeve / Closed]

It was a tense for moments while Habana waited for Maeve to pick up the call, there last talk had been… rocky at best, ultimately she’d still felt that they were, despite the strangeness of their interactions, essentially friends, it was why she’d decided to call Maeve after all, but there was always a chance that perhaps Maeve would be unwilling to pick up, perhaps she’d be just a bit too worried it would be MORE bad news, that she’d been involved in the death of someone else close to her. Thankfully the situation was quite a bit different from that, she wanted to discuss the Riku situation with someone who lacked a particularly large stake in the outcome.

Before Habana could begin to worry further the call synched up as Maeve accepted it, she’d gone for a video call mostly because it felt a bit more personal, the closest to a face to face conversation she could accomplish while they were literally worlds apart, it seemed however that Maeve was not entirely aware of all the functionality of her phone as she appeared and sounded genuinely confused by what it was the device was doing.

The virtual Maeve’s poked at the air for Habana but she could assume her friend was attempting to interact with her own hologram “Yes I can hear you Maeve, and see you as well. It’s good to see you again after so long. I had wanted to have a proper face to face conversation with you again for a long time but unfortunately events have constantly conspired to make that a bit too dangerous.” Habana said with a sigh/

“How have you been since our last call? “ Habana inquired, she’d work her way into talking about her own problems later on, first she was curious about Maeve’s current state, the dragoness was still presumably with child, Habana wondered how long a demon-dragon and human hybrid child pregnancy would last?

This was a curious new side of Maeve that Habana was getting to see a genuinely relaxed and cheerful version of the women with whom she shared a strange friendship, in their previous encounters Habana had seen Maeve ready and excited for battle, then as the battle drew longer she saw the dragoness’ fury as Habana refused to fall before her time and time again though if Habana was honest she’d very nearly been beaten quite a few times that fight.

Then she had seen Maeve at a low point, with all the weight of her pregnancy and the death of Bing weighing heavily on her shoulders combined with her learning that Habana and Zerori had played a part in the battle that had lead to Bing’s death, this side of Maeve was an entirely more pleasant one than that though part of Habana held a fondness for the battle ready warrior side she’d seen back during the invasion, with any luck she’d get a chance to see that part of Maeve again one day though with luck without quite as high stakes.

“That’s good to know, do you know how long it will be until it is born? I believe saiyans and humans share a roughly similar gestation period but I’m not exactly sure how your side of things affects the whole process “ Habana questioned with an amused grin, perhaps it would be faster? That would be a bit of a kaisend for the warrior to have the worst bits of having a child done and over quick.

And as well Maeve was working to take the position Bing had held just as she had mentioned during the last call, she’d been unsure then but it seemed that her resolved had strengthened enough to move forward “Another good thing to hear, I am unsure what the posiition actually means as even as far as the Empire’s records go there is little concrete information on what the ‘Guardian’ does. But a position of power and responsibility is good, it helps you set yourself on a path.”

Habana reclined in her seat a bit not enough to let herself drift out of frame for Maeve but just enough to get comfortable, she blinked a few times as Maeve spoke her next words however unsure exactly what Maeve meant, perhaps she had missed part of her statement? “Who?” Habana said returning to a more upright position, Maeve had sounded and now she could see looked somber once again. Who could she have seen that would put her in such a state? Habana wracked her mind for people that fit the bill but came up with none that made any sense.

Though one thought, one of the ‘unlikely’ ones lingered, the saiyan girl she had met mentioned a name that had put Habana off until they had segwayed into a different topic. She’d mostly just written it off as a coincidence then but if the girls own story was true...

Habana waited patiently as whatever it was that Maeve had to tell her was clearly taking it’s tole on her, the way her friend’s head fins twitched and generally moved seemed to react to her emotional state in much the same way a saiyan’s tail might, unless one had fine control of the appendage it was not uncommon for a saiyans tail to whip about when they were angered, or droop while sad. Habana blinked however as Maeve spoke up, initially she had assumed that Maeve had misspoke somehow or that she had simply misheard what she had said because it sounded an awful lot like she had said she’d seen Bing.

Before Habana could ask for clarification Maeve spoke up again already providing it and to Habana’s confusion she once again asserted that Bing was in fact alive and that he had been near her, however by her admission something felt wrong about Bing her description was initially quite odd to Habana and all Habana could think of was her brief conversation with the girl Arias.

She’d claimed to receive orders from ‘Bing’ a ‘strangely armored’ Bing as Maeve put it could fit that bill if he had somehow disguised himself as a Empire officer perhaps? Then she delivered her full feelings on what he had been like ‘a demon forged from metal and fueled by hatred’ it made Habana cringe slightly as her mind reeled with possibilities NONE of which were good.

Had anyone actually recovered Bing’s body?

Habana had sort of just assumed it would be handled by one of the warriors that stood with him or that it had simply been destroyed in the battle or otherwise buried in the wreckage that the battle had likely caused, but in theory if it DID still exist perhaps… perhaps someone had acquired it and reanimated it as an Android of some sort, an attempt to use the power of a warrior as powerful as Bing Gan.

It was frankly a bit terrifying to think of Bing’s power at anyone’s disposal, the best case scenario was that it was JUST his body and none of his power, though even still the husk of Bing Gan being out and about was a horrifying thought even if it did not pose a physical threat. “I… I don’t know what to say Maeve.. I think you might be right, at least in some way, a saiyan girl I encountered a little bit ago made a vague reference to having encountered someone named Bing but at the time I chose to dismiss it as just an unfortunate coincidence of the universe…”

“But now with you backing up the idea… I hate to push further on this but did you actually interact with him at all? I hate to say it but there is a chance someone might have taken his body from Kanassa and reanimated it as a cyborg style Android, Im not even sure if it would properly BE Bing anymore or... “ Habana sighted visibly uncomfortable with having to say the next part “or just essentially a machine puppeting his body.”