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Her sudden burst of momentum caught him off-guard, but so did her pronouncement. It stung to hear her shouting so; to hear his brother's name, to be misidentified. She herded him to safety and he let her, but he continued on a few more feet afterwards too, coming to a stomping halt and turning to shoot a glare at her. Mesa hadn't meant to be so riled but he felt the fluttering of his heart and the wound-like sense of loss all over again, and it came to the surface in that one sharp, frigid look upon his face.

Mesa. He cooly retorted after his pulse began to return under his own control again — I'm, I'm not Ego! I'm -- but he didn't know what to say so he shut up pretty quick, fuming silently to himself. He wanted his brother back too but the boy was realizing that there was nothing he could do about it; Takiyok's panic stung at him more than it should have. I'm still here, he quipped finally, looking away from his mother and staring darkly at the blurred slopes leading down the mountain.