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Manolo Luis Sanchez Rivera
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audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 02:14 pm (UTC)[Not that he sounded bad before, but it's nice to hear the smile in his voice.]
I'm pretty good, too! What's got you in such a good mood, huh?
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Date: 2016-03-10 10:39 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 10:43 pm (UTC)That's so great! She showed up? Um-- wait, what's her name?
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Date: 2016-03-10 10:46 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 10:47 pm (UTC)Maria Posada.
[Like, you just wanna say it all at once, all the time. Maria Posada.]
audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 10:51 pm (UTC)[For Manolo, it rolls off the tongue like the most beautiful poem.]
I cannot believe my good fortune.
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Date: 2016-03-10 10:56 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 11:00 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 11:01 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 11:05 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 11:09 pm (UTC)Youuuu must be really into her, huh?
[And there's not much she can get out of teasing, since he's so open about it.
Kind of like the DeLites.]
audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 11:22 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-10 11:25 pm (UTC)There's two people in this-- no, in her world that she loves more than life, but it isn't romantic. Phoenix and Pearl, her two most important people, but-- she knows that isn't what Manny's talking about.]
How do you know?
[She doesn't sound scolding or skeptical; there's a curious tone to her voice, like she really doesn't understand.]
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 02:06 am (UTC)But that doesn't explain how he knows he loves her.]
I just...do. [He's more articulate through music, but he'll try his best for Maya.] When I'm with her, I feel like that's where I belong. Like I'm home. And when she's gone, a part of me is missing too.
[A pause, and he grows more somber.] The thought of never seeing her again...it was unfathomable to me.
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 02:14 am (UTC)[Maya sounds frustrated-- but it isn't that she thinks he's wrong. This kind of thing just isn't a reality for her.
How can you feel that way about someone when they're likely to leave, too?]
Sorry-- it just. Doesn't work that way, where I come from. I guess I just don't get it. The only people I felt that way about before I came here were my cousin and Phoenix-- but.
But I know I'm not in love with Nick.
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 02:37 am (UTC)Finally, he says:]
Well...they're your family, right? I love my family too. When people say the word "love" they often mean romance, but I think there are many types of love in the world.
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 02:39 am (UTC)[She sighs, then shakes her head-- and though he can't see her do it, he might be able to hear the little breath of laughter.]
Sorry, everything here's. Different, y'know? I guess it's just weird.
But, just cos I don't get it doesn't mean what you feel isn't real.
[After all, she has to stay openminded!]
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 02:55 am (UTC)Well...going back to what you said earlier. About how people end up leaving anyway. I can only speak for myself, but I would rather have just a year, or a week, or even a day with Maria than go an entire lifetime without having met her. If I didn't know her, I...wouldn't be who I am today.
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 02:57 am (UTC)[Honestly, that does sound very beautiful, but... even still, something else catches her attention.]
So, wait.
She's your friend, too?
[Why does this sound completely foreign to Maya]
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Date: 2016-03-12 03:03 am (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 03:05 am (UTC)[She admits.]
I never really thought about it that way. I guess I always thought those had to be two separate things....
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Date: 2016-03-12 03:15 am (UTC)audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 03:19 am (UTC)Since the women in our village hold all the power, the men tend to... leave. And so it's just us, most of the time, and... men are only really there soooo we can have heirs.
[She realises this kind of sounds weird.]
My cousin really like romance stories because of that-- because she hasn't ever really seen a relationship go right. But to me, it's just... why would it be important?
[It's not something she's ever going to have, after all.]
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 03:36 am (UTC)[Okay, no. He can't criticize, even if that's a horrible thing for a father to do. From the way Maya is talking, no one even expects them to stick around.]
Well...if you're going to start a family together, it's good if you want to help the other be their very best self, right? And that makes you want to be your best self in return. If you really love someone, you see all the good and amazing things they're capable of, and you want them to succeed.
audio;
Date: 2016-03-12 03:42 am (UTC)[She doesn't sound very concerned.]
But if the girls don't have the power to channel the dead, and if there are any boy children, usually they leave with their fathers.
[It's a sad reality, but for Maya, it's just every day.]
...Maybe if we did that, though, finding partners like that? Maybe things would change...
[you know, like the whole 'trying to kill the leader every five seconds' deal.]
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