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"We are going to miss you so much…please, please son keep in touch, call us whenever you need something, or not and you only need to talk, or-"

"Dacă mama, of course I will, and I will miss you more than you can imagine-"

And her mom smiled lovingly, he was halfway his twenties but she couldn't help it, not when she'd almost loosed him forever.

"-but you know I have to do this"

And yet, she knew and accepted it, even thought she couldn't really understand him most of the times.

The goodbye left a warm feeling inside his chest. On the plane he watched clouds coming and going, and passed the time reading newspaper articles and doing some research about the last six years. A lot of countries which used to be as stable as firm land were in economical, social and political turmoil while, others, managed to add the evo-problem inside their normal budget (like USA). It wasn't surprising at all, but he couldn't find anything about the origin of Providence, and that unnerved him.

When he arrived and got off the plane, he saw a man holding a paper with his name wrote in big letters. For a fraction of a second our auto-proclaimed nameless character grimaced seeing his name, but, almost instantly, a small smile reached his face, and he approached the man. The new character was taller and broader than him, blonde and had a very masculine face, with soft eyes and the Romani could bet the other had a gentle personality.

The other smiled a grin and raised his hand. The no-longer Noface firmly shook it.

"Welcome to Canada-" and the man started to walk, guiding him through the mass of people in the airport "-the name's Matthew, part of the psychology research team, first time in the country?"

"A pleasure Matthew, and well, first time in America" then he added "funny I get to know Canada before the States"

"Well here's quieter-" Matthew shrugged "the last six years were kind of chaotic, but that was the general state of the world so…"

The Romani nodded and both got inside a cab in silence.

The journey from the airport to the city was a quick and eventless one. Matthew continued making some small conversation, which the no-longer Noface didn't mind at all. The Canadian was good company and had a soothing voice, he told him the psychologist team consisted of just the two of them and that they were practically pioneers on the evo-psychology field.

"So, why did you decided to work on this?" Matthew asked while both were going up the stairs, carrying the baggage towards the Romani new home.

"It was-" he struggled to find a word "an interesting and unexplored field of work"

The Canadian raised an eyebrow but didn't question.

"Yes it is"

They had some dinner brought by delivery, and talked some more. They talked about their families, and Matthew shared that his real motive for being part of that research group was that his brother had been an incurable evo for two years. And the once-Noface shared memories of Europe and his family, his brothers and sisters.

They had some good laugh when the Canadian told a funny anecdote of him in a bar. Still, the Romanian stayed silent about his time being an evo, it wasn't that he didn't trust the other, but he had a sane sense of insecurity about letting the rest know that information.

He stayed silent in that regard, but that didn't mean they couldn't become friends.

The next day he was going to meet the rest of the team.

For a first time in a long time, he was anxious.

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"Dacă" means "yes" in Romani

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