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[skysplitting]

[ There's one blonde girl who looks very, very unhappy. She's dressed in a cheerleader outfit, hair held up, and judging by her expression? She judges everything. She isn't happy with the NV, or with anything, to be frank. ]

A baseball thing? Seriously?

[ She smiles, and it is a very pretty smile and at the same time if looks could kill -- ]

I don't

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[pullsheavendown]

Sorry...you missed Christmas by about a month.

[skysplitting]

-- It's Christmas eve tonight, actually.

[ what. it is ok? ]

[pullsheavendown]

Not here, it isn't. Sorry. Time works kinda funny here. You just arrived, right?

[skysplitting]

Right...just now. Wait. I missed Christmas?

[pullsheavendown]

It's January in this world. That stinks that the Core pulled you from before Christmas in yours. Talk about bad timing.

[skysplitting]

Ok, from the top, what is even a Core?

[pullsheavendown]

Man, the greeters are really slacking off. They shouldn't have taken the job if they didn't like being out in the cold.

Uh--anyway. That's what brought you here-brought all the newcomers here, as far as we can tell. Not that anyone knows how. But it happens all the time.

[skysplitting]

But what is it? A person? A -- place?

[pullsheavendown]

A thing. A machine, or something like that.

[skysplitting]

A machine. Right.

-- I'm sorry this is all just -- I'm Quinn.

[pullsheavendown]

No, it's okay. I know how weird it is.

I'm Roxas.

[skysplitting]

Roxas -- hi. You've been...kidnapped, too?

[pullsheavendown]

Pulled, yeah. I don't know if it's much different from being kidnapped. And...it's not so bad, not all the time. I've been here almost two years.

[skysplitting]

--- Two years? No way. We must stay here forever?

[pullsheavendown]

Not everyone! People have gone home. Some of them more than once. It's just that we can't control it.

Sometimes I wonder if it makes a difference whether you want to stay. Not everyone has a place to go back to.

[skysplitting]

What do you mean? What about their home?