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[can_i_keep_it]

Umm... I don't know if this is a good idea or not, because... well... it might cause homesickness.... but then... it could help it too.... but....

Would anyone just like to talk about their home? I'd really like to learn about some of you. And maybe you could help me remember too.

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[heartofahime]

Home was...not really home anymore. It was a battleground.

The whole thing started out so simple. My brother and I got scholarships to Fuka academy, which happened to be in the same area as one of the best hospitals in Japan. That's what Alfons needed. Hell, everything I did was for him... The job, the school... Everything.

Then it all changed when I found out I was a HiME. Suddenly I was thrown in to battles I didn't want to be a part of, but I had no choice. Innocent people would have died because of the SEARRS foundation.

I thought it was all over after me and the other HiME defeated them, but then that bastard Envy told us about that damn 'festival', and that we would be forced to fight eachother in order to become the most powerful, but by doing so we would also be killing a HiME's most precious person.

I... I lost everyone. Maes... Alfons... But I couldn't stop. I wanted to bring them back some how, being everyone back. Ally told me that the only way to truly win was to defeat the Obsydian Prince. And that's what I was trying to do before I arrived here. Only...that meant fighting his sister Nina, despite the fact that she was my best friend.

So... That's pretty much it. I was on the losing end of a horrible battle.

[can_i_keep_it]

I'm so sorry.....

[heartofahime]

It's... It's okay. [she gives a sad smile]

I hold out hope that the other HiME were able to do what I couldn't.

[can_i_keep_it]

What IS a HiME, exactly?

[heartofahime]

It's kind of funny, in a weird sort of way. HiME actually stood for Highly intergrated Materalizing Energy, which was really just a fancy way of saying we could call upon elements and make creatures called Children appear.

We were called HiME, though, because 'hime' means 'princess' in Japanese, and in ancient times those with our abilities were called battle princesses.

It's...odd, though. You remind me a lot of the girl who did all the research on HiME and told me all this...

[can_i_keep_it]

Oh.

...is Japanese a language? Or a type of termonology or slang?

I'm a girl in your world then?

[heartofahime]

I...I guess so. Allison was her name. She was actually a teacher at Fuka, too.

Japanese is a language, but we're required to take English as a second language as soon as we start primary school. My brother and I were planning on going to the United States to see a specialized doctor at some point, so we both worked very hard on our English.

I...take it Japan doesn't exist in your world?

[can_i_keep_it]

I don't know what a Japan is, no.

[heartofahime]

[She blinks and stares for a minute, then bursts in the laughter, almost losing it. She manages to recompose herself, though and rubs a hand over her eye]

No, no. Japan is a country. As is the United States. My world is... very different from yours, I think.

[can_i_keep_it]

United States?

Maybe. But then, maybe it's all the same, but with different names.

[heartofahime]

Maybe.

[shrugs]

My world has a lot of countries. Seven continents, though. North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. No one really lived in Antarctica, though. Japan is an island nation of Asia. North America had the United States... er... they called it that because all their areas are called 'States'. I don't know why. They just decided to call them that. And... they're united? Something to do with their history or some such thing.

[she realizes she's babbling a bit and stops, blushing slightly]

Er... s-sorry. Rambling...