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[Ritz is curled up with her Gear propped up a bit away; she's leaning against Mathis with Bijou curled up in her lap, asleep.] Is there anyone here who just... doesn't want to go home? It's not like I want to stay here because I'm getting out of school or anything! But... well, I started something here, and I've made friends that I probably wouldn'

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[It might be a bit after the actual post - as much as most of whatever he might say is things Zidane knows already, he doesn't particularly feel like juggling two people on a subject where he'd like to maintain control of the conversation.]

[And getting Kate out for a bit - now a Charmeleon and a good bit bigger - makes a perfectly good pretense.]

I imagine you may already have a guess to my answer to your question for Johto.

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Oh, I might have an idea or two. I'd have to be about six kinds of stupid to not. [Ritz is perfectly content with a pokepile around her. She's making sure to keep her voice soft, though, on account of the sleeping ones.]

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[He's settling down sitting nearby, carefully not disturbing anyone.]

I must admit, I wonder about your situation - I'd certainly hope you at least have more to go back to than I.

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[Ritz is glancing over.] I have a lot more than most people do. Even without the whole dream Ivalice, I have a parent who loves me and doesn't spend nearly all of our money on alcohol so she can forget about her problems, or try to. [Ritz is going to scoot over and try for a one-armed hug.]

I mean, how many people can say that the worst thing about their home is that it's boring compared to all this?

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[This - was not something he was expecting; genuine affection without ulterior motives wasn't really something he'd encountered! Which means there is a momentary "wat do" freeze before he relaxes.]

I'd imagine I'm not the only one where this is ... the better situation by far, but - then there seems to be a decent handful that haven't exactly had horrible lives, and I doubt so many people would be working to find a way home if they didn't have something important to them.

[And, lo, one of those occasional stray curiosity thoughts.]

Was the "dream world" truly the only sign of magic on your world?

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[There's not much Ritz can say to that, so she nods and moves on to the next thing.] As far as I can tell, yeah. I mean, there were stories and video games and stuff, but none of it was real. It was all just... 'in some alternate world' or something. Never 'a long time ago' or 'on the other side of the world'.

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Curious. What was it that prompted the Dream World? Things like that don't normally just appear out of thin air for no reason... [And even where he was from, that would've taken some massively powerful magics to accomplish.]

[...wait, isn't this supposed to be ACTION?]

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A book Mewt got. The night before we showed up in the dream world we were looking it over and the next thing I knew I was staring down a spider a little bit smaller than Brenda.

[You know I fixed that a couple tags ago ...before I changed soemthing... >_>;;; ]]

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Well, that's almost certainly the catalyst - But it seems odd that something like that could come into existence in a world without magic; either some had to create it, or it's an entity unto itself, and such things don't usually exist like that without some effect on their surroundings - where I'm from it would take incredibly powerful magics to achieve that sort of effect. [Oh hello there puzzle!]

[Perma action so we can forget about putting something here?]

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[Ritz is taking a few minutes to absorb the implications of that.] So it's possible that there is more magic back home, but a teenager in a small town that's lucky if we get all the same TV channels everyone else does wouldn't know about it?

[Sounds good to me!]

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It certainly seems likely. Of course, it'd be a question of if it was known more elsewhere in the world publicly, and your town happened to be too isolated to hear as much... or if it was known to only a very few and kept secret, or lost to the majority of society. There were some magics on Gaea that were immensely powerful, but only known to an isolated few outside of stray rumors and maybe a stray member of that tribe showing up elsewhere.

[He shrugs slightly.] Either way, I doubt something like that would exist in a vacuum; there would have to be some kind of history to it, and a larger background of some sort.

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[Ritz is frowning a little.] I don't think it's just the isolation- I mean, as common as magic was in the dream Ivalice, you would think that maybe I would have grown up hearing about how someone miscast Fire and it blew up a fireworks warehouse or something- it seems like the sort of thing that you'd grow up knowing about, you know?

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[He nods.] Obviously, the magic that exists in the normal world seems to be a different sort than what exists in the Dream World; the book in the real world evoked the dream world - the book and how it functions is the lead to where you might find other traces, or any history you might find on it.

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[Ritz is going to nod.] It's something to think about when I get home, anyway.

[silver_lucifer]

[And now, for idle curiosity's sake...] I do have to wonder what its intended purpose was - how old did it seem?

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Pretty freaking old- probably about fifty years old? Not old enough to go into a museum or anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if a magic book is older than it seems.