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[continuousgroaning]

Yeah... no matter what.

[Tina stands on tiptoe so that she can kiss him on the cheek. It's not a gesture of affection she shows all that much, but it shows how much he still means to her.]

... yeah, I understand. I mean, I wouldn't expect you to uproot everything, too. Especially 'cause you're better equipped to handle things there than I am. But the Porters still exist. And communicators. We'd still see each other.

[It won't be the same, she knows. But it'd have to do. Thinking of her safety is the mature thing to do, she thinks, no matter how much it hurts. No matter how much she doesn't want to.]

[burlyboy]

Oh, yeah. No way would I just let us fall outta touch or anything. I was actually thinking... well. How about I show you? It's not that far away from here.

[ It's not a terribly long walk away. It's pretty close to imPort housing, in fact, and fairly close to Heropa's high school. At first, it doesn't look like much -- all it is is a small apartment building, crammed full of apartments. He gestures up at it. ]

If you move here, you might not wanna come back to Maurtia Falls all that often. You're thinkin' about leaving for a reason. So... no reason I can't come to you every now and then. And after the others got ported out, it ain't like I don't have the cash to, uh, reserve a place. Could work okay.

[continuousgroaning]

Okay.

[She sounds intrigued, and so she follows along; her jaw then drops, and she turns to him, incredulous. Her heart is pounding, and she looks back at the apartment building, then back at him.]

You... you'd do that for me? I... I don't know what to say. Not in a bad way, just in a "holy crap that's so nice" kinda way.

[burlyboy]

If I can swing it, sure. It wouldn't just be for you. I still wanna hang around you too. So do the dogs - and so does Ango. None of us would be against taking weekends off here sometimes.

[ Magnus shrugs. ]

Weren't we just talking 'bout making the most of the time we got with each other? There's no point in having money if you don't use it on the stuff that mattes.

[continuousgroaning]

[It's a short while before Tina can speak; she puts her arms around Magnus instead, taking several deep, steadying breaths, because otherwise she's going to burst out crying.

Not that she hasn't done that before, and he hasn't done the same to her, but still.

She's filled with mixed emotions, because even the possibility of what he's suggesting has tipped her mental scales toward "move away" and she's still weighing the good and bad about that. But more than that, the fact that he's thinking of going that far so that he and Angus and the dogs can continue to be part of her life... it means more than she can put into words.]

I love you.

[That's all she can manage at first.]

And knowing I matter to you so much that you'd even consider... I can't say thank you for that enough.