Ellie nods at him, encouraging -- and then rolls her lip over her teeth, thoughtful. Unsure of how to explain what she wants to say, but it's important anyway.
"I wasn't gonna say anything but- I'm pretty sure I met you, actually. Not in person, or I would have put it together faster. It was always over text. But there was a guy on the neural-link network with the name Stephen Strange. I was still really new and figuring out how stuff worked. I sent a... joke. Anonymously. Out onto the network. A pun. I don't remember what, but it was about birds."
Everything was about birds back there. It was weird.
"And he was the only one who talked to me for a while. It was late at night, and I didn't even attach my name. We both kept going until we ran out of bird puns."
Ellie pauses again, runs her tongue along her lower lip, turns back to him.
"... I wish I could remember more. I just remember he was always asking lots of questions. About everything, everyone. He seemed like he actually wanted to help people."
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"I wasn't gonna say anything but- I'm pretty sure I met you, actually. Not in person, or I would have put it together faster. It was always over text. But there was a guy on the neural-link network with the name Stephen Strange. I was still really new and figuring out how stuff worked. I sent a... joke. Anonymously. Out onto the network. A pun. I don't remember what, but it was about birds."
Everything was about birds back there. It was weird.
"And he was the only one who talked to me for a while. It was late at night, and I didn't even attach my name. We both kept going until we ran out of bird puns."
Ellie pauses again, runs her tongue along her lower lip, turns back to him.
"... I wish I could remember more. I just remember he was always asking lots of questions. About everything, everyone. He seemed like he actually wanted to help people."