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[battingaverage]

[this dude in some sort of black and gold military garb is delicately plucking an ear off of a nail-studded baseball bat.

he looks like he feels much better.]

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[blindstheworld]

[...that is certainly an ear. And also a military uniform]

Do you require assistance-?

[battingaverage]

Yes, I--

[wait

wait]

--Your . . . Your . . . Your Highness?

[blindstheworld]

[...there goes pretending to be incognito. OH WELL, Shuri probably would have ruined it]

Yes?

[battingaverage]

[ONE KNEE]

Your Highness! What are you doing here!

[blindstheworld]

Please rise; you do not need to stand on ceremony here. I was drawn here mistakenly more than a year and a half ago.

[battingaverage]

Y-your Highness, I . . .

[rises]

. . . am I ill?

[blindstheworld]

You do not appear feverish, although you are perhaps somewhat flushed.

[battingaverage]

This is not real!

[blindstheworld]

It is very real, although I understand that it is overwhelming at first.

[battingaverage]

I-it cannot be! It is not even a good approximation of real! I will not fall for it!

[blindstheworld]

I do not believe it is meant to approximate anything anyone has experienced before.

[battingaverage]

But I--you are here and Shuri . . .

[blindstheworld]

We are, and Shuri tells me you have been here once before.

[battingaverage]

This is what I keep being told. But that is not possible!

[blindstheworld]

A great many things happen here that would not be possible elsewhere.

[battingaverage]

But this . . . how long have you been . . .