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[Having arrived in her SeeD uniform, Grell stares at everything around her in disbelief. At least she had the decency to not gape her mouth open as she clutches the box she found to her chest when she first woke up. The populace around her walked around her as she stood in the way of pedestrian traffic, but does she care? Of course not! They can go around!

And who was that pale girl in that…hologram? There are holograms, now??]

…this isn’t Balamb.

[understatement of the year…]

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[Luckily for her, learning how to use the communication device given to her is a breeze, so have a beautiful redhead gracing your screens, with her very English accent. She’s in a cafe at the moment, gathering her bearings. She doesn’t look entirely pleased at the situation at hand, but tea helps.]

Please tell me there is a reason I’ve been whisked away, again? [She picks up a tea cup and sips her beverage. Thank goodness she found a place where there was decent tea!] In this awful uniform, at that! [SIGHS and shifts in her seat. It's so ugly...]

Has anyone seen a sparkled, blue phoenix flittering around here? He’s my pet, and he simply can’t live without me. [There is a small smirk.] There isn’t a reward, but you’ll thank me for finding him for me. He’s a handful.

In the meantime… [The teacup is placed down, out of screenshot.] any friendly advice you may have for new arrivals would be greatly appreciated. I’ll be looking for work soon, preferably with computer technology, so if anyone is hiring~… [WINK] I’m also good at taking care of pesky problems, for the right price.

[She gives a light wave before cutting the feed.]

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[Have a confused looking half-naked cape man appearing in frame.]

...sparkled blue phoenix? ...You're joking right?

What's your track record for whisking? I'm thinking there's a conspiracy afoot in the universal kidnappin' game. Only choose people while they are wearing their most ugliest uniforms slash attire. Everyone popping in with Christmas sweaters on...

Will keep eye out for mystical blue feathers but I think unless you had him in your fairytale coffin that didn't have the decency to provide princely wake-up calls, he's probably not around. Sorry, red.

[Why, hello cape man~!]

If he heard you say that, he'd peck your eyes out! [Shakes her head in shame.] He's also vain.

So far? Two. Which is too many, really.

[Yuck, Christmas sweaters... She definitely makes a face at how atrocious they are.] I'll consider myself lucky, then.

Honestly, if that is how world traveling works, you'd think we would be given a heads up! Although I'm certain my previous trip didn't have such stipulations, and certainly no fairytale coffin.

I've seen some weird things over the years... [Like a bunch of high-school students shooting themselves in the head to summon gods and demons.] ...but that's a bit out there even for me.

The universe, or universes, are endless. [She chuckles softly before adjusting her glasses.] You're still young.

Someone must have a thing for you. That or there's some kind of multi-universal bullshit hero journey that you learn absolutely no worthwhile life lesson on that everyone got recruited for and you've already passed phase one. Congrats.

[ so not okay with any implications being whisked away twice comes with but let's pretend it's no big deal. la la la. ]

What did it have? Besides uniforms and being pet friendly.

Thank you, I feel so...privileged. [EYEROLL]

Great educational facilities sponsored by wealthy, anonymous donors. Not the best cafeteria food, but they try.

I'm no kid, and I'm well aware that there are forces in the world that are invisible to the vast majority of people. But a blue phoenix? Seriously?

[Aki, you've seen someone put a gun to their head and summon the Greek God of Death to do battle...]

Then you should be aware that anything is possible.

[Yeah, sure, no "kid".]

Just because there are things beyond what normal people can see doesn't mean anything is possible. That's like saying if we can put a man on the moon, we could put one on the sun.

So yes, I've seen some weird things in my time but I reserve the right to be skeptical of some things.

As I've said, you're still young. You have time.

Like some fancy boarding academy slash secret prison? The food here is probably a thousand times better, at least. You're not limited to the wonders of mystery cafeteria meat.

You could say that, yes. Except they teach you how to KILL.

And if that's really all you have to go on, then you're a fool. Age has nothing to do with this. I'll admit, a blue phoenix is very strange to me, but I could be wrong. But to dismiss someone simply because of their age is simply ignorant.

I've seen children with more strength, more vision, and more conviction than most adults. I will remain skeptical until proven wrong, but it's got nothing to do with my age.

[Shaking her head, Grell simply takes up a pencil that was on the table, and two napkins. She wrote the word "sun" on one, and "man" on the other.

Guess what she does next?

Yes, a "man" is now on the "sun", as she places the appropriate napkins in order.]

It's not always about age, but what you learn with enough time. Then again, you musthave known that hmm~?

[Akihiko just rolls his eyes at that.]

You want to talk about what I've learned? Fine. I've learned long ago that there are multiple levels of existence, even different worlds. This is not the first alternate world I've been to, but it is the most 'normal.' As such, given what I know about alternate worlds, I have no reason to believe that a blue sparkled phoenix is a common enough occurrence that a random passerby would be familiar with it.

[Dismissively waves her hand in the air.]

To be honest, I don't really care about what you've learned, or haven't. Also, you're preaching to the choir. You're not the only one with other worldly experience.

But you may choose to believe me or not. You most certainly can't disprove me, in any case.

Then you really are a fool. I will keep my eyes open - regardless of how likely or unlikely it being here may seem to me.

[All she could do was smile mysteriously. She's been called many things, but a fool? How childish.]

Now why did it take you this long to come to such a statement?

[Before Grell could give him the chance to reply, she turns off the video. She's wasted enough time as it is with this guy.]

Oh, okay. Fancy murder academy slash secret prison then.

It wasn't so secret, and definitely not fancy.

[ He was just about to step around the stranger that stands in the way, when he hears her talk.

He rolls his eyes. ]

It's also not any place on Earth.

[ He doesn't know where Balamb is (it sounds like it might be located in or around his home country or something) but wherever it is... Well, whatever. ]

[Green eyes look over to the new person that actually stopped and paid attention to her. She then takes her gaze to where the hologram was and sighed.]

Lovely. I'm doing this all over again.

[How annoying.]

[Dairine might have left the introductions to other more senior residents if the word "again" hadn't caught her attention. Was he another person who'd been caught in a different world before this one snagged them? It sounded like it.]

No reason that we know of yet, hate to break it to you.

Can't say I've seen your pet, but I can give you some information about this place. Have you read the pamphlet?

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