[Even to this day, it still makes her smile to echo that greeting — now so natural and second nature, but still almost a joke, in light of how she'd had to be taught to even use it in the first place.]
You made it all right?
[And that, too, is getting to be second nature around here — the standard check-in for the times when they've been separated, you've been all right since last I saw you, because in the end it's still always safety that ends up being the first priority, before anything else can happen.]
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[Even to this day, it still makes her smile to echo that greeting — now so natural and second nature, but still almost a joke, in light of how she'd had to be taught to even use it in the first place.]
You made it all right?
[And that, too, is getting to be second nature around here — the standard check-in for the times when they've been separated, you've been all right since last I saw you, because in the end it's still always safety that ends up being the first priority, before anything else can happen.]