[- let's stick to telepathy, my bad. Looks like yes.] What year does the internet think it is here?

2024, apparently.

[I think things in the spirit plane lasted longer than I said before - I was only on seven islands the entire time.]

[It's only a decade earlier here than at home, so you are about 1200 years old.]

[Well, a lot of people I knew growing up turned out to be very wrong about how long I'd live, I guess.]

[I guess that if you... didn't exist for a while between dying and being adequately legendary... then you might not have spent the entire time since your birth racking up lifespan.]

[I think it was twelve hundred something during the first time I was summoned and I existed a while before that. Maybe eleven or thirteen hundred.]

[Yeah, I don't know how to guess how long it might have taken for you to be a spirit... people are sometimes pretty legendary in their lifetimes, aren't they? Do they ever turn up as spirits before they even die?]

[I haven't heard of that happening. I was pretty legendary during my lifetime and remember being a spirit right after I died but my memory might be playing tricks on me - I still don't know how accurate it is even if it was right about the big stuff.]

[How would you know it was right after you died? There'd be a discontinuity since you'd have been in the spirit world after.]

[I remember feeling like I was burning up and like I was floating all of a sudden all in one train of thought or something like that?]

[I think that just means that your spirit memories pick up right away after your human memories end.]

[I guess that makes sense.]

The Uber lets them off at the park.

May consults a map and they can start hiking in.

"Probably we should find a place off the trail - is talking okay now?"

"Yeah, should be unless we run into anyone."

"I could probably hear someone coming from a bit away - though not too far and I might not be able to tell the difference between them and a deer."

"They'll probably just think we're talking about video games if it's only a passing mention."

Nod nod.

"Is there a spot off you want to head to or are we just going to wander around till we find a place?"

"Based on the map I want to bear northish but I don't have an exact spot in mind."

"It's been a while since I've been camping - I'm sort of excited."

"What was camping like last time?"

"We were waiting outside of a guys house - though maybe that's more a stake out? If that wasn't camping than the last time when I was alive and I did a lot of that on the way to hunting down monsters and then when I was traveling between places during the tournament."

"Sounds more like a stakeout, yes."

"Well, I enjoyed camping more. Nice to have a place to stretch around and not have to worry about people being around all the time. Even if people being around is also great. Especially if they are great people like you."

"I have no idea how much waiting we'll have to do before someone tracks us down and starts trying to kill us. Potentially a lot, I guess."