▌three. [video; japanese]

[metatronius]

Wait... [Aigis' voice utters, when her frequency comes back to life, and with video footage. Her communicator is a way away, but Aigis' body can be seen. She is just lying on the street, practically in a heap and still dressed in her school uniform. And. It seems she's asleep, yet having a nightmare. Her clothes slightly rustle, as she turns on the

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[prodigal_axe]

... it ain't sleep. They sent you back, but you weren't gone long.

[metatronius]

... I see. How long was I gone?

[prodigal_axe]

A couple of weeks on this end.

...how long was it for you?

[metatronius]

I'm not sure... I recall falling asleep, but when I woke up, I was here.

[prodigal_axe]

Sounds like what happened to Sorata...

That happens sometimes. I don't know why it never matches up...sometimes people leave for a couple weeks, but to them it's been years.

[metatronius]

I don't feel like I've lost that much time. But time does distort itself here...

[prodigal_axe]

Distort... what do you mean by that?

[metatronius]

Because... you're here, despite what happened to you. I'm here, but months after that incident occurred. And Minako-san is here. We all live here in the same time, yet under normal circumstances, it's time that would've kept us apart. At least, that's what it seems like to me.

[prodigal_axe]

Oh. So that's what you meant...

I always saw it the other way around, I guess... they're distorting other places and times, but this one runs on its own track.

[metatronius]

Discedo does seem to hold its own reality and time, separated from our own worlds. Perhaps because it is a new world entirely? And we are at its mercy, or rather the scientists that supposedly run this place.