Maya smiles and gestures to Jack with her right hand, “good, I’m trying to hype my friend up here!” It sounds like no matter what route Jack decides to go, they have options. “And who’s to say you can’t do both, you know? One now, the other later, like you said. I guess it’s just a matter of what you want right now, versus later on…the possibilities are endless,” she shrugs with a shake of her head. It’ll be interesting to see which option Jack decides on, and Maya will have their back either way. “Hey,” the architect pauses for a brief moment, hand going to her friend’s shoulder when they stop. “You gotta do what’s best for you either way. The Grid isn’t everything, y’know, we still have our real lives…and we all have FaceTime, and Zoom, we’re a click away. I know that’s not the same thing, but it’s something. And we can visit,” Maya reminds Jack with a small smile before they begin walking again. Yes, it’d be hard if that’s what Jack decided. But they've done it before, which means it can be done again.
Honestly, Maya would rather the topic have stayed on their own lives rather than The Grid. But…well, The Grid is a part of their lives. Heavily so. And Maya sort of tossed it, and all of them; excluding a few, away. It isn’t fair. But it’s also something Maya felt, and still feels she had to do. It’s what got her to where she is now. She is sorry though, which is why she says it. “I just…couldn’t. I know it’s hard to understand, but I just shut down. I couldn’t handle seeing anyone, let alone them seeing me like that. Jonas just, he…I don’t know. He pushed through the walls I put up and broke in somehow. He went through something similar,” Maya explains, or tries to as they sit down in a corner booth of Bamboo Sushi near a window. Nothing could really explain why she let Jonas show up at her door with soup, and no one else. But no one else really did get it like Jonas just does. The waiter comes by to drop off some waters and menus, which Maya takes but doesn’t have time to look over quite yet as Jack goes on to tell her about the situation with June, Reyes, Kishan, The Grid, and the rest of the gang. Boy…have things gone south while she’s been away. Maya scoffs, dropping the menu from her hands once Jack is finished. “I’ve suddenly lost my appetite…” Maya mutters under her breath; hands going to her temple to rub thin circles into them. This…is a lot. “So…he wants to delete, Kishan? Based on what evidence, exactly? And we're supposed to believe whatever he says— and June for that matter, because…what? Because they, “know computers?” Yeah, maybe it’s hypocritical of Maya to be saying that when she put faith in Jonas; a random outsider looking in, who once seemed very threatening to the group. She went to all of them and asked them to trust him because they trust her. Why can’t the same be done for June and Sebastian? Because they want to get rid of the only remaining reminisce of their very good friend. That’s why. That’s like killing him all over again. Not to mention, both parties in question are known from keeping the truth from the group in the past. “Kishan and I didn’t always get along, but even I think we can’t just discount what we have left of him based on one or two people’s opinion. We’re a group, we vote on things. We discuss. And this guy worked with Kishan on code for The Grid in the past. From what I remember about what people told me about the two of them? They’re pretty “friendly,” rivals. So who’s to say this isn’t just some big ploy to one up Kishan again? Even in death?” Maya points out, knowing very well the things said about, and to, both Sebastian Reyes and Kishan Ahjua regarding their relationship. Wes talked about it all the time when they were together.
“Wes used to talk about that guy… He and Kishan would talk crap about him when we were all hanging out, and they thought I wasn’t listening. I was third wheeling on their little friendship dates, obviously, those two nerds,” Maya chuckles with a shake of her head. “Basically though, all I’ve heard is that he’s trouble. Maybe that’s different now, but before, he liked to be one step ahead; the smartest guy in the room type. He could easily steer people into thinking and doing what he wants.” Yeah people can change. But can Sebastian really change everything about himself? Who he is? No. “I know I haven’t been as present as I should have in the past, so maybe I don’t have the right to a vote anymore…but you asked, so I’m saying it. I don’t fully trust him, and I don’t think we should delete Kishan either. I think we need more facts first.”
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