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(An extremely tired woman with long blonde hair in curls and held back by various hair clips in different shapes while wearing clothes that are much more suited for a tropical climate than anywhere even the least bit cooler finds herself finally turning on the device (she had given up on trying to read the directions after the third sentence - without a cup of tea or sleeping less than a few hours, she was still dead to the world and reading was not something she was in the mood to do) she had found on her when she had woken up and yawning into the camera.)

What...what's going on? I don't remember falling asleep...or getting into a box...or whatever that thing was... and I certainly don't remember... (She curses under her breath.) But, they're saying it's not?

(She glances down at the box that she had woken up with and sighs.) Okay, so this has to be a dream, yeah? It has to be a dream...a joke? A prank? Something?

...In any case Marie, you keep ending up in these messes, don't you?

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No, I guess there isn't any other choice right now for us to make.

(She looks at the archways and then back at him and the slightest bit of a grin forms on her face.) I should? You're just going to keep flattering me, aren't you?

...So, should we just try to find the way out of here?

I'm just...really happy to see you.

[But his smile faltered at her question. He looked back toward the arches before nodding.]

Yeah. Be ready for whatever might be out there. [Normally he would have scouted ahead first, but he wasn't about to leave her here alone, either.]

Happy to see me? But, you just saw me not that long ago... (She shakes her head. It doesn't matter.) Never mind, I'm happy to see you too. (She kind of always is, okay that was a lie... she always is. She places her other hand on his arm, hoping that it would some small comfort when she sees him frown.)

Be ready? And what do you suppose we do if there is something out there?

[He smiles to spite his nervousness and looks over to her.]

Stay behind me, and keep close. We don't know what to expect when we get out there.

(Marie nods at this, she lowers her one hand but refuses to move her other hand from his.)

I will. (She knows she doesn't listen that often, not without a fight in some circumstances. But she feels nervous enough to just go along with this, besides she knew that he knew what he was doing. But, they could also both work things out if there was a problem that appeared.)

See? (She even moves herself behind him.)

[He looks back over his shoulder and smiles at her.]

Yeah, I see. Okay, let's go.

[And he leads the way through the arches into...a city? His brow knits in confusion as he looks around.]

...not what I was expecting.

(She nods and follows him, grinning at smile she saw, glancing up at the archways on occasion and looking around in silence until they both find themselves in a city.)

...a city?

(She looks around herself.)

I'm not really sure what we're supposed to be expecting.

It's... [He looks back behind them, more and more confused.]

I don't know this city, but...it's...normal... [Not that he really understands what he should have been expecting in the first place.]

I don't know but...that place, where we woke up it's...it's like it doesn't belong here.

I don't know it either, Jason. And yes, it looks normal enough... but I don't know that place we woke up...

It kind of ruins the whole "normal" part, doesn't it?

Wait, isn't there some sort of something around here that's supposed to tell us more? Maybe...we can try that?

Yeah, an info terminal, or something like that. [He nods and moves that way, eyes constantly moving, keeping track of everything around them.]

Hopefully this will tell us...something.

What was it they called it...I think it was a hologram, was that it? Yeah, that was it...

Jason?

(She frowns.)

I'm not expecting a lot from it, but some answers would be nice...but you heard everyone else, right? No one really gets what's going on...

Someone put this hologram here.

[Which means someone has an answer.]

If we pay close enough attention, maybe we'll find something they missed.

Yeah, but...oh, good idea. It can't be some magic thing, right? (Marie nods then she pauses.)

Maybe. I hope so.

What do we do if there is something? Do we just go there or...?

[He looks over to her, slightly confused for a moment.]

Magic? I doubt it. [He shakes his head.] There has to be a logical explanation.

[And he shrugged.]

There's only one way to find out.

(Marie just stares back at Jason and shrugs.)

Well, it was...a guess. I mean, this whole thing is weird...so why not it be that? But yeah, it's a long shot even in this circumstance.

(She nods.)

Yeah, I understand. We have to listen to it, watch it...whatever one.

[He hologram activated as they approached the terminal and Jason listened, keeping himself positioned between it and Marie. It wasn't dangerous, he could tell, but the things it was saying...

...whoever this recording was, she claimed to not have anything to do with the way they arrived. It was almost as though her company look care of people displaced by someone or something else. But what?

After it was finished, he moved to the stand the broadcast had indicated and found the maps just where the recorded woman had said they would be.]

Well...this is a start.

...a start?

(Marie had been a little startled, but she did her best to not let it show. She stood in front of the terminal for a few moments in silence as Jason walked over to the stand where the maps were before finally moving over to it herself.)

Do you think she was lying about not having anything to do with this?

(She frowns.)

[Jason shakes his head as he unfolds the map.]

It's impossible to say for sure. [He looks over to her.]

But this is what it mentioned, and exactly what we were looking for. [He spreads the map out across the stand.] We're here, all the streets are marked. There's the line she was talking about for...for children.

It's like a refugee camp.

So, she might telling the truth.

(Marie frowns at that answer and then she takes a few steps forward and leans down to get a better look at the map. She glances back up and looks at Jason with a slightly worried expression.)

A refugee camp?

(She pauses.)

I mean...I think I see how it's like that, but that just makes me more uneasy about this place...

So, what do you want to do now? You know, about whatever this is?

Well, the hologram was right about one thing. [He looks over to her.] We need to find somewhere to stay. However we got here, we're not figuring it out overnight, and we don't have access to...to the money here, either. So we need to do something about that.

Yeah, I hadn't thought about that part. I was more worried about...not that. (She frowns.) I guess we have to do that first.

(She pulls out the pamphlet she woke up with and pulls out the red bills.)

We do have this, though? It...I don't think it'll last very long, but we're not entirely without money?

...Maybe I can work? (Of course, she will have to be able to find and hold down a job first. She doesn't have a great track record there.) I wonder how much this would be able to get...maybe I can run another shop? I liked doing that...

[He frowns and looks over to her.] You were worried about what?

[But his eyes dart down to the pamphlet she's holding, then to his own man.] There's an office marked here. Maybe that's a place to start looking.

(She definitely sighs at that look. Now was definitely not the time for her worrywart shenanigans.)

It's...it's nothing. Just...waking up in a weird place, I didn't think about what would happen if there wasn't an answer, well didn't want to, was hoping to not have to do that. I mean...

(She then just shakes her head.)

Or it could just be me, but I should be better than this...

(She nods at mention of the office and places the stack of red bills in her hand back into the pamphlet.) Maybe. It wouldn't hurt to go there and see, I suppose.

[He slips into his confident expression, even if he isn't feeling particularly confident at the moment. Marie needs the support, he can tell that.]

There's an answer, Marie. We just don't know it yet. [And there were more and more questions, like how she was here at all. She...he saw her...he didn't have time to think about that right now.]

And there's no reason for you to the better at something like this...I...don't really know what to do, either.

[He nods and looks off in the direction indicated by the map.] Let's move.

(Marie listens to what he says and when she sees that confident expression, she tries to smile. It was a little weird to be the person who needed the reassurance. It had been a long while since she had last really needed it, well minus a few temporary shake ups which she had just went to bed after they happened.)

I suppose you're right. There has to be one, right?

(A pause.) I...didn't mean it like that. I meant being better about...

It doesn't matter now. We have to wait for an answer, well, wait and look for it...and we have to get jobs and all of that...

... (She's quiet until he looks away, not sure what to say, and then nods.) Yeah, let's go and take a look at it.

Edited 2015-10-25 02:58 (UTC)

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