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[tickingheart]

[A bedroom, sun streaming through the windows onto the form of a teenage boy, just stirring from his sleep. He looks around in some confusion]

---reboot---scanning---scanning---scanning---

[He picks up a phone laying beside the bed]

Hello~~ Anyody know what just happened? Maybe where this place is?

---visual scan---access memory banks---Looks

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[nomorestrife]

Welcome to Mayfield.

[tickingheart]

Ah. Mayfield.
---scanning wrld.atlas---error location not found--

Um. Where?

[nomorestrife]

"America", in another world.

[tickingheart]

[he doesn't believe you]
Yeah... Sure...
So ah, could you give me my clothes back?

[nomorestrife]

...I didn't take your clothes.

[tickingheart]

Who did?

[nomorestrife]

...I don't know.

[tickingheart]

... [oh wow. this one's a winner]

I see. Do you know anything about this place?

I apologize for his angst.

[nomorestrife]

People are kidnapped from their hometowns and then brought here.

...and their stuff is taken away as well. Magic too.

... Ah... It's angst...

[tickingheart]

Kidnapped? That sounds about right. But why?

Yeah. I noticed the whole "missing stuff" thing.

... Magic???

[nomorestrife]

Nobody knows.

And magic. Real magic. We use materia in my world, though.

[tickingheart]

Nobody??? Well, that kinda sucks.

[great. as if he needed something stranger] Ah. Real magic. That makes totally no sense.

[nomorestrife]

Who are you, anyway?

[tickingheart]

Ah! I'm Kaito Kur--- Kaito Badson...

[nomorestrife]

Is that your real last name?

[tickingheart]

Kuroba is my real family name, but since there's already another "me" running around here, I might just use the name that... this place gave me...