faithfulflame | First Prayer: Enter: Sailor Mars! [Action/Accidental Voice]

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First Prayer: Enter: Sailor Mars! [Action/Accidental Voice]

[In the early afternoon, people paying attention to the journal may or may not take note of a familiar scene playing out in the woods on the edge of town. An open voice-feed, clearly unintentional of an extremely confused looking girl who's definitely just arrived, and from the sounds of it is not where she expected to be...]

Uuuuaaaah? W...what sort of illusion is this?!

[An actual scream!] KYYYYAAAAA!!!!!

W..hat?! WHAT?! N...o..., its gone! But...I was just...WHAT?! Where is it?! I've got to get back...from...here and...go help the others! But first...my pen...I've got to find it? And...whats this...thing? A book?

[The feed closes with the sound of footsteps coming near, but a misplaced finger adds a photograph to the broadcast.

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[Rei shrugs]

Its...not really my thing, but its familiar at least.

Would you rather have general cafe fare, or pizza, then? I have not yet eaten.

Um...well, pizza sounds more filling. Its not something I eat all the time, but its not every day you wind up in a strange new world.

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. I know you must be busy, being a doctor and everything.

Pizza it is. [Adele nods and leads Rei back into the plaza, heading for the pizza parlor.]

I do not mind helping those that I can, especially since I am not needed quite as much here as I was back home. The village is calm for the moment, and no one is injured badly.

Calm for the moment? Do people get hurt here a lot?

[She's worried, if its dangerous here, then she should be keeping much closer watch on everything]

I have read and heard drafts discussed. Times when villagers are pulled from the village to fight the Malnosso's war for them.

Great...just who are they at war with?

A rogue faction of their own members, and a group called the Third Party. Most of the details and relevant history is covered in the guide in your journal. It will take some time to get through but it will answer many questions about this place.

I suppose I'll have to get to it soon then. It definitely sounds like required reading.

I'm sorry for being such a pest, ma'am.

You are no such thing Rei. I have had worse interrogations from New Feathers; you have been polite and reasonable. As such, you are not a pest, and I do not mind. [She pauses at the entrance to the pizza parlor and nods Rei inside.]

[She'll enter, and turn, politely smiling back]

Well. I can only imagine what some people would have been like. I've got a few friends who'd be much, much less reasonable.

As do I. Not everyone takes to this place well.

[Easy enough to find a place to sit this time of day and, as she hadn't eaten yet, easier still to quickly choose what it was she would order.]

[Rei will sit and order the same thing, just to be safe]

Oh? Well...once I realized what was going on, it all came together. Fate brought me here, so there must be a reason.

Fate? [She quirks a brow. True, the Malnosso didn't bring them here, the world did. But. Fate? What sort of fate would pull her from a bloody night into a prison she would loathe?]

I suppose that is one way to look at it.

Madame LeBlanc, Fate has a funny way of working, and its not really our place to understand, but accept.

[YES, yes you are getting lectured by a girl twenty years your junior on Fate. When she's not freaking out, you may see that those robes aren't for show, and she's frighteningly mature]

Its where we are supposed to be, for the moment. Why fight it? Time can only reveal more.

[Another lecture on fate. Lovely. Adele represses a snort and lets the wry twist of a grin speak for itself.]

I need to keep count of how many people here tell me that we are either meant to be here, to accept the circumstances for what they are, or that it is some variation of fate or destiny. I know it is but one possible explanation for all of this but I have never put much stock in Fate. You make your own.

[She's met these types before, people who just can't relate to the girl who is linked by destiny to four others. Rei's different, and the odd one, and she knows it]

Well, I can't tell you what to believe, of course ma'am. But everything happens for a reason, that much is certain.

[Adele represses the twitch that phrase wants to bring out in her. Nothing happens for a reason, it simply happens. It is up to you to either prepare to cope with it or change it.]

Little enough is certain in this place.

[Rei senses that this woman...probably wouldn't ever really understand what she's talking about, like most people who weren't caught up in the magic of Queen Serenity...and lets it drop]

Oh? What makes it so uncertain? Is it those Malnosso creeps?

It is not only the Malnosso. The world, itself, shifts from time to time. I think we are protected from the bulk of it due to the barrier; but the cycles? That is not purely the work of the Malnosso.

Truly? So...its more fate and circumstance, and less targeted abductions?

[Way to go, giving her a lot to think about]

A little of both, if you like. The extent of the predetermination of this place is variable and strange. I would recommend discussing this with Raine Sage; she is the one that wrote the guide and has been here long enough to offer ample insight.

I'll try just that. Thank you for the information.

Oh, are there any people here who are dangerous, and I should avoid?

...I would have to say you must trust your own judgement on that. I have met those that are roguish, and some would call them dangerous. It all depends on your point of view and the situation.

Fair enough. But...there is someone from my world I'm seriously hoping isn't here. Do you know of anyone named Beryl? Or...does the word Shittenou mean anything?

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