Sudoku and Solitaire were some of the most dangerous games on her phone, they sucked her in so easily. Viktoria was about to agree with him that sudoku was a pretty awesome game when he suddenly cut off in the middle of his sentence with such a confused look on his face. Viktoria felt her lips part and her eyebrows raise in her own form of confusion. Clearly he was meaning to say something else, but he cut himself off for whatever reason. Viktoria decided not to question it and instead nodded. “I mean, it makes sense for it to not be your least favorite.” She agreed with his very twisted sentence. The last thing Viktoria expected next was this complete, full blown rambling monologue from Gage while he hopped from thought to thought and idea to idea in a very confusing and spiraling manner. “Yeah, but I’m so stubborn, I think I need to finish it at least.” She nodded towards the book, it just sucked it was so long. Viktoria was at least a little surprised to hear he was older than her, there was something about Gage that made him feel younger. “How do you know your age then if you don’t have any memories from before when you woke up here?” It was hard not to chuckle a little, at least when he finally got done with his rambling. “No, I don’t know a Matty. Who is he?” She took a sip of her water and watched him with an eyebrow raised to see if he would start to ramble again. Another round of babbling started up, but at least this one was shorter. She chuckled again, unable to help herself. He was funny when he started to get like this. “You learned that when you were high?” She couldn’t help but laugh, in her mind she could already imagine him sitting there trying to commit the whole thing to memory. “No, you don’t have to say it backwards, I think I got it figured out in my head.” She smiled again, nodding for him to take the water as she looked around for the waiter to grab Gage a cup of his own too. Still smiling and finding his babbling a little cute, Viktoria held out her hand to shake. “Yeah, let’s start over. Nice to meet you Gage, I’m Viktoria Calloway, age 29.”
“Oh, I understand, though I disagree. I think I put the book down long enough to forget about it and just... poof, the desire to finish is gone, y’know?” Gage grinned ear to ear at her then. “Oh, a few memories filtered in. Yeah, my family... I found my mom online and contacted her and now my family visits about every other month, since we’re all nymphs.” He didn’t mention that he and Darren were the only air nymphs, when their mom and dad were water and earth, respectively.
“Matty’s my roommate. He’s hesitant to remember anything, so I don’t think he has, or at least he hasn’t shared anything. He’s another Riverborn, sorry. Lamia.” He nodded and took th sip from the glass of water, wiping his mouth on the back of his hand afterwards as there was no straw. Gage firmly shook her hand in return. “Hi Viktoria Calloway, I’m Gage Martell, otherwise known as Henry Palmer by some folk around these parts. It’s very nice to officially sit down and meet you.” He blushed from the absurdity of it all, looking down at his food. “Sorry if I’m a bit hectic. That’s just... who I am!” He almost wondered now, looking back, how Meyer even handled him, how they fit as well as they did (for less than a year, albeit).
He finally plunged his plastic fork into the food in front of him and took a bite. “I’ve been hoping one of these days to get a hold of you at work, but you’re always so busy. Are you understaffed at the Lackadaisy? Also, I finally figured out why your face goes white when you see me,” he chuckled, obviously exaggerating. “It’s because most of the mail must be bills you don’t wanna pay.”
