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[The video feed activates and it's evident that Minori is on the move. She's rather distressed but not panicking. She's not the helpless newb she used to be even if she wasn't even close to as strong as the others. There also seems to be a lot of soft jingling just out of the video feed.]

Please excuse me, is this still Elder Tales? I don't remember hearing about a Genessia City on the Yamato Server... I tried calling everyone on my friends' list but I just get a message about the player not being available.

[Minori looks away to check a street sign and then back at the phone.]

I'd like to thank the girl in white for the informative hologram as well! It was really helpful!

[And the feed ends...]

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Minori sighed after hanging up. It didn't seem like there was a guild hall in this city for some reason, so maybe she wasn't in the game still. But she was still in her gaming avatar and could pull up the command menu. The city did seem safe enough but Minori kept her staff out just in case. The girl visibly shook herself and started walking again. The hologram had recommended she go to a place called 'Haller Home' and it was as good a place to start as any.

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[Whoops, forgot to give his own for the nth time.]

T-ha, oh! Apologies; I'm Ted. Pleasure to meet you.

Ah...

[Gonna need a second or two to process that.]

Huh. This just happened all of a sudden, then? No clue as to who or why or?

[Ted... Nice and easy to remember at least. But... She was slightly curious as to what kind of name his relative saved him from.]

There is a 'what' and 'when', but nobody knows who, how, or why. I wasn't the only one, either. Probably hundreds of thousands all over the world ended up like my brother and me.

[She'll just have to hang on to that curiosity cause it's a lil' embarrassing.]

Goodness! Sounds like you had it worse than we do. Had an out of body experience myself, recently. It was...lovely.

[He says with dreamy delight.]

Oh, ah, not that I'd recommend it too long. How long has your predicament been going on, anyway?

Hmmm...

[How long had it been? The weeks with Hamelin, the week of reordering after the Round Table founding, the time before and during the training camp...]

Three months? Three and a half? [A very small but perhaps telling pause.] There was a period of time I wasn't able to concentrate on what day it was. There were certain signs to begin a new day but I wasn't able to count.

[Sometimes, able=willing to subject the mind to reality.]

[He understands. Kind of.]

Heh, I suppose that would be very disorienting, so you seem limpid. Perhaps after the first time, a sudden appearance somewhere else as something else doesn't disturb so much.

[Comforting!]

There's, ah, some mystery along those lines with ourselves, too. A while back many of us got blood tested to see how our bodies may differ from the norm. Apparently all our cells are very young, as if we were born not a year ago. So at least you're not alone in being in an unfamiliar vessel. Is that one similar to how you looked before?

That makes a lot of sense!

[Humanity does tend to learn from personal experience, but Minori wasn't really old enough to really grasp the concept on her own. So Ted pointing it out turned the lightbulb on over Minori's head.]

[That did present a new question though...]

I wonder, though... Elder Tales was originally teen and older, so there's no blood. Even when Tohya and I died the first time, we didn't bleed.

[Well that's a strange thing to say.]

"Teen and older?" What do you mean by that?

[She thought that she just said... Maybe it wasn't clear enough...]

Games and toys are usually made for certain age groups, and Elder Tales was made to entertain teens and adults. So there's fantasy violence but no blood or dead bodies.

A game?

[He had a friend that was in a situation like that, though Ted was unfamiliar with that kind of entertainment.]

Aheh, that certainly explains how one can be so casual about dying! Goodness, you poor thing...though what really disturbs is that Genessia took you in such a state. How could a mere game be real enough for this world to...

[He then realizes that Minato probably doesn't have any answers for such existential questions.]

Ah, sorry, suppose any speculation is merely idle for now. A bizarre mystery, nonetheless.

Say, if you could ever, er, get back to normal, would you?

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