No more than a few months, but with how much I roam, I'd expected to run into you again, even after waking up somewhere rather unfamiliar. With your need to prove yourself, especially.

[ well. may as well show his hand. ]

Essentially, I sensed I might not be the only one who ended up here, so I've been following anything remotely competitive, and lo and behold I found you ♪

[ what he wonders to himself though, is if the both of them getting whisked somewhere unusual was tied to the Verse incident. ]