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Summary: Mike begins his search for El and El has to figure out if she’s brave enough to guide him to her.

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The memories of those times hits him straight in the heart, the organ giving a painful squeeze. Even with her in hiding, even with having to sneak around to be with each other and be constantly vigilant, he didn’t know how good he had it then, when he could spend countless hours and minutes in her presence, where he could hold her and kiss her and love her in all the ways that made his body and soul sing. And Mike wonders, would he have done anything differently if he’d known he was going to lose her before he even got the chance to graduate high school?

The question lingers in the back of his mind, haunting him as he begins curving his way west, Virginia, Georgia, and Kentucky all dead ends. He tries to put El out of his mind as he takes a few days and hunkers down in St. Louis, intent on getting some writing done. But like the ghost of her presence, thoughts of El aren’t so easy to ignore.

The weight of what he’s doing finally hits him during the very long drive up to Sioux Falls in South Dakota, the weather getting colder and icier the further north he goes. Mike knows he’ll go to the ends of the earth to find her, that there’s nothing he wouldn’t do if it meant getting to be with her again.

But just how far will he have to go?

And what’ll he do if he runs out of places to look?

4A) Which of your fics surprised you by how much attention it received? What is something you wish more people noticed about it?

Hmmm. Now to be honest, beyond the Mass Effect fic I already mentioned, I can't say any fic I published ever really blew away my expectations of how I assumed it to do? Perhaps Vessels, actually! It's technically my third most viewed Zelda fic. Or maybe Boundless, which has far less views but a really really great kudos-to-views ratio!

I don't know if there's anything I wish people would notice for Vessels, so I think for Boundless, I suppose... it would be the reason why Ganondorf gets *so* agitated and becomes violent when a guy gives Puppet Zelda his hand and promises her safety?

Hello there!

First of all, yes. YOU HAVE MY WHOLE APPROVAL!!

Second, I feel flattered, thank you <3

I'm going to give you some ideas of how is my little baby's physiognomy, I hope it helps :)

I always imagined her hair as dark brown, almost black (almost like Tech's ❤️‍🩹)

Her design (and a little of her personality) was Inspired by Maisie from the Netflix movie Sea Beast (highly recommended, btw). Although Manae doesn't have that much curly hair, and her skin tone is a bit lighter than Massie's.

This is a drawing of how I imagine her (ignore my poor drawing skills). She usually wears a blue and white checkered apron, along with a military green dress. I just wanted to draw her with a different outfit.