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[enkindling]

I didn’t realize there was such a big fountain in the area. You think I'd have noticed before. It's not like a large fountain could hide itself...

Wait. I don’t recognize this pla- This doesn't seem right.

...If I took a right back there, I should be on Bunkamura street by now, but this doesn't even look like Shibuya, no less Tokyo. Calm down,

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[adamantined]

You're in the City. You okay?

[enkindling]

Just a little shocked...scared- I still think I'm dreaming.

[adamantined]

You're not dreaming. Promise. Do you need someone to get you?

[enkindling]

If it isn't too much trouble...

[adamantined]

I can come. Where are you?

[enkindling]

By a large fountain- unless there's another in the City?

[adamantined]

I don't think so. I'll be there in a little bit, okay?

[ooc; bb you want action?]

[enkindling]

All right! I won't be hard to miss.

[ooc: unf ♥ action is just fine for me. ]

action!

[adamantined]

[And Claire shows up! Keeping her eyes peeled, hands in her pockets, she's walking fast to find... whoever this person is. Maybe she should've at least gotten a name.]

Hello?

[Maybe this is the right person?]

action!

[enkindling]

You've got the right person.

[A a warm smile and a wave-- she's well-practiced at this game.]

...I should have probably introduced myself before, huh? I'm Kaori.

action!

[adamantined]

[Sigh of relief.]

Oh, good. For a second there, I thought some random person might think I was insane or something.

[Smooth, Claire. She sticks out her hand for a shake.]

It's nice to meet you Kaori. I'm Claire.

[enkindling]

If this really is a City in another dimension, all of must must be insane. Don't you think?

[Takes the offered and shakes, tilting her head as she notices something odd. ]

...Isn't it weird how we can understand it other?

[adamantined]

Maybe. I don't know, though. I feel pretty normal.

[Claire takes her hand back and shoves both of them in her pockets, rocking back and forth.]

Shouldn't we be able to?

[enkindling]

Any moment now I'm going to roll off my bed and wake up! And tell myself not to eat...whatever I ate before sleeping.

[Mai joins Claire in her fidgeting, raising a hand to scratch her head.]

Why would be able to?

[adamantined]

I promise you can pinch yourself all you want, but it's not a dream. I think I did that when I first got here, and nothing happened. The next day, I woke up, and everything was the same. [pause] I wouldn't lie to you, either.

[Claire thinks about it for a minute. It's not something she's ever actually lingered on before, never something she's actually given thought to. Hiro is the only one who seems to retain any kind of translation error in this place.]

I don't know, now that I think about it. Maybe this places kind of stops things like that from happening. It like.. neutralizes it or something.

[enkindling]

Of course a figment of my imagination wouldn't lie to me. [she grins, only teasing~] Also, I think my parents are going to worry once they find out I'm off in...a different dimension.

[ Now only that sort of thing existed on Earth. ]

Otherwise we'd have to translate each others hand movements.