[Audio]

[lutenberg_lion]

[The audio feed turns on, yet there's a long moment of near-silence where only the faint sound of a passing breeze can be heard. Then a calm, even voice breaks through.]

I'm hoping this works.

[There's another brief pause as Conrart turns the strange device over in his hands, wondering if it was really meant for the transmission of messages.

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[whatisnowlost]

You're in a place called Lucernrigde.

[lutenberg_lion]

Lucerne Ridge? It's not a name I'm familiar with.

[Somehow, he thinks that asking whether or not this was Earth would probably blow whatever cover he had left, should he need it.]

[whatisnowlost]

It is a name none of us were familiar with till we arrived here.

[lutenberg_lion]

[Conrart frowned for a moment. This certainly didn't sound like Ulrike's doing, but he couldn't figure out what the Shinou wanted with a place called Lucerne Ridge. That is, unless the fourth Forbidden Box was somewhere here. Then again, he didn't think the Shinou would go transporting other people there as well.]

So you're not from Lucerne Ridge either, I take it?

[He smiled, hesitant to ask, but he had to know.]

How long have you been here?