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[mangun]

Characters: Laguna, whoever is in the area~
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: He lost his way from Squall and Selphie as they were going off to play Knights in Shining Armor to save Rinoa~
Location: Treno
Date: February 3rd, 1803
Warnings: none at the moment~!

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[saltparsley]

Suddenly appearing in a new world wasn't so bad (he'd told himself), and at least the moogles were friendly about it and had been accommodating enough. They'd humoured his questions and explained all sorts of things to him. The place, MoogleNET (though he'd seen signs that seemed to say something like "Midgar" before they'd been painted over), was strange, but not so strange that he couldn't believe it to just be some abandoned city from his own world. Even though the city was alien, the moogles were so familiar that he'd been able to ignore the idea that he was in a completely different world.

But then they'd strongly encouraged him to leave and had pointed him in the direction of the next town over and given him supplies enough to make it there. But it was dark and there were monsters - not that he couldn't deal with the monsters, but he'd discovered that his Job Class abilities weren't working quite as they should - and the knowledge that he really was all alone in a strange world was starting to sink in.

When he finally made it to the gates of the Treno, their cold and striking unfamiliarity just served to drive the message deeper. This was not home. He did not know this place. And now he was passing through the gates of a strange city, realizing he didn't have all that much Gil on him and that he wasn't even sure his Gil would be good here because it really was a different world after all, and he was so busy wiping tears from his eyes and trying not to break down into a complete panic attack that he walked straight into somebody.

He stepped back, sniffling, and mumbled a faint, "Excuse me," to Laguna without ever really looking at him.

[mangun]

The unexpected body that bumped directly into him took him by surprise. Laguna had been looking around at the buildings, eyes busy reading the signs in hopes of finding that damn inn. "Hey!" He took a step back, looking down. He found himself staring at the top of someone's head, a head full of thick, auburn hair.

Laguna then heard the sniffles, the quiet apology. He stepped back one more step and leaned down to peer into the stranger's face. "You as lost as me?" he asked, tilting his head. "..and you're crying. Hey, what happened?"

He tried to catch his eye, brows knit in concern.

[saltparsley]

What happened? Life had finally calmed down and he'd been able to go back to being a simple village kid who read a lot of books and didn't go out looking for trouble and certainly didn't have destiny staring holes in his back and now he'd been suddenly plucked up and thrust into a new place where he knew nothing and nobody and apparently didn't even have the Crystals to rely on anymore, that was what happened.

But he just sniffled again, looking up at the concerned stranger as his hand fell to cover his mouth, fingers splayed over his nose and freckled cheek. Calm down, he was telling himself, somewhere underneath the rising panic. Calm down, you helped save the world once, you can handle this.

"S-sorry, I'm not..." Another sniffle, followed by a slow, ragged exhale as his gaze turned toward the ground. Looking people in the face was a bit too intimidating for him right now. "I'm not - from here..."

[mangun]

{{ooc; :3 Laguna replied to the moogle; it should be your tag now}}