Another rises from the ashes.

[projectio]

Uaaa... This place is pretty neat. Some kind of, uhm...? Hans would know the word. Something. Not Atria, but nothing I've seen before, either...

[ She grins. ] Wait 'til Annette hears about this.

[ Oh, by the way, her left arm is in a sling. ... yeah. ]

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[tiltedwindmills]

[And because he needs a bit of dusting-off, have a Laguna. Whoooo's currently on his ass.]

Hey-ow! What the...?

[projectio]

[ ... and Aoi is trying not to laugh. ]

A-are you okay?

[tiltedwindmills]

What? Oh! Yeah, fine. [He hoists himself to his feet, perhaps a bit more slowly than he would have a few decades ago, but then again he's still pretty sprightly for a guy heading straight into middle age.]

Never better. Except for the, uh...

[A puzzled look]

What is this place?

[projectio]

If you say so...~

I don't know yet! Just found myself here, too.

[tiltedwindmills]

Weird... The last thing I remember was hanging around the palace, and then all of the sudden, poof!

No faeries this time, either, so that doesn't explain anything.

[projectio]

Palace? ... Are you royalty or something? [ Don't look it. :I ] I was just heading to work, myself...

Faeries?

[tiltedwindmills]

What, me? Nah, I'm just a politician. It's just a fancy place they set me up with when they elected me. Not that I don't appreciate it or anything...

[He blushes] Yeah, that's...kind of hard to explain. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it.

[projectio]

An elected official in a palace... not some sort of State building?

Aww, but now I'm interested! [ >: ]

[tiltedwindmills]

Nope, no state building, just the Presidential Palace. I guess maybe we do things a little differently in Esthar.

Ah...it's kind of a long story and Kiros tells me I talk too much as it is. You sure you have time to hear it all?

[projectio]

Esthar. That's your State?

If I didn't before, I do now.

[tiltedwindmills]

My country, yeah! I mean, I wasn't born there, but I've lived there for a long time now. It's kind of like home, I guess. What about you? Where are you from?

...geez, I didn't even ask you your name, did I?

[projectio]

I'm from Atria. And... my name is Aoi Kioku~ It's nice to meet you...?