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[holyjudgement]

[The feed cuts in abruptly to a teenage boy's pale face mid-conversation. He's experimenting with the sky phone's functions, examining it and pressing buttons. Behind him is the misty swampland some may recognise as Caedarva Mire. He looks up to address someone offscreen.]Yeah, I think I get how to use it. They're a little like what we use back

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[chaos_vessel]

[Hope doesn't really catch Vincent's attention, but the place he showed up in certainly does.]

You should leave that place. Did the moogles tell you how to get out?

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[holyjudgement]

[Hope doesn't reply until he's managed to drag himself back out the water. He's attempting to wring water out his jacket, looking embarrassed when he replies.]

N-No. He showed me how to use this, but that's it.

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[chaos_vessel]

[Lucky for Hope, then, that Vincent's pretty much ignoring that fall. He'd only say something if he actually knew him.]

Then be careful. That place is dangerous.

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[holyjudgement]

[Hope nods and hangs his head.]

Right... Thanks.

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[twistedjudge]

[Worry about the giant flying building is temporarily put aside for this.]

HOPE!

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[holyjudgement]

[Hope replies after a delay, back on solid ground but still dripping with swamp water. At least the phone isn't busted.]

Fang?! Is that you?

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[twistedjudge]

[He wouldn't be the first person to bust a phone right on arrival.]

Hope! Where are you?

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[holyjudgement]

I don't know... Some kind of swamp. It's kind of hard to see much with all this mist.

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[tosavecocoon]

[ Cruising around the network, also worrying- ]

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[tosavecocoon]

[ Wait a minute... Is that...? ]

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[tosavecocoon]

Hope...?

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[tosavecocoon]

Hope!!

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[focustrigger]

[Serah's blinking through most of the transmission; unsure of really what to say. The endless dilemna; that she knows them, but they don't know her... particularly for Sazh, and, for Hope.

But when she hears the splash, she finally gets her wits together.]

A-Are you alright? Hope!

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[holyjudgement]

[Hope manages to pull himself out of the water and retrieves his phone, coughing up water on all fours before he answers.]

I-I'm fine, don't worry.

[Cold, wet, lost and surrounded by monsters, but fine. Then he actually looks at the phone to see who's addressing him, and his eyes go huge. It feels like forever ago that he first saw Serah in the Pulse Vestige.]

You're...

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[focustrigger]

Thank godness. [He doesn't... look it, but. If he says he is... Not to mention the look on his face when he sees her. She quickly moves on.]

Serah. Lightning's sister. [she pauses, before half-smiling.] She's here, too. Oh, and... Fang and Vanille. Do you know where you are?

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[holyjudgement]

But... What happened? How did you turn back from crystal?

I checked my map. It says I'm in some place called Caedarva Mire.

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[knowshermachina]

Woah. You okay there?

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[holyjudgement]

[After a few minutes, Hope replies, still dripping wet.]

Y-Yeah, it was just an accident.

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[knowshermachina]

You should be careful! Do you feel alright? Some swamps can be poisonous.

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[holyjudgement]

I should be fine, I think.

[Even if it was poisonous, he has his healing magic.]