[ A memory resurfaces easily, immediately. Maruki blinks rapidly as it does, then sharpens his focus, peering at her curiously. ]

Now that you mention it... I spoke with Lehna about something similar while she was here. The existence of versions of that role, different across realities though the same at their core...

[ He hadn't gotten to dive deep enough into it with her, and his head still swims with all the possibility that it means within the collective unconscious, but–

Well, Maruki was a slightly different man back then. While his fascination is no less preoccupied with what all their existences in Somnius mean for that driving collective force that he knows best of all, it exists off to the side when he's around the people he cares about most. ]

Ah, how are you faring in her absence...?