[Post 007] Text/Video/Action From Violet City Pokemon Center

[of_france]

I had... a very strange dream...

The calendar says that three days have gone by. My left leg buckled when I tried to get up today, and my head feels like I've been hit with a sledgehammer.

Have I been ill?

When I woke, I... I thought...

I thought I could smell lilies...

[The 'Gear comes on to show Marianne's fuzzy red face. She looks

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[Ahiru tosses and turns, whimpering a little before she wakes up. Blearily, she sees France laying in bed. He didn't look like he'd been having very good dreams either. Tentatively, she crawls out of bed and pads over to her roommate's bedside, pillow clutched against her chest.] W...were you having bad dreams too, France?

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[Ahiru thinks carefully about what he said, wanting to say something to cheer him up, but unsure how. So, she gets up and tentatively hugs France.] I don't know if this could possibly apply here, but before I came here, I was in a story, but I wasn't always a part of it. The writer brought me in because he thought it would be fun...at least that's what he told me. I thought maybe this world is a little like that. [She blushes.] I mean, that someone brought us here to make a story. And then, when the story finishes, we'll all go home and back to our old selves.

[If that was the case, Ahiru could only hope that whoever was making the story wasn't cruel like Drosselmeyer.]

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[of_france]

[France gives Ahiru an extremely curious look.]

So you're a storybook character? What was the title of the story you were in?

[He nods, slowly.]

In my world, there are a series of games centered around Pokemon. I only played the first in the series, mostly on the Metro to and from work, so I remember them too well. The thing is... it's the kind of video game that doesn't really have a set ending. You could play it forever, if you wanted to.

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((ooc: up to you whether you want him to "know" about the fairytale, but I would assume it was German, lol.))

[Ahiru flusters and blushes and tries to explain in a way that might make sense, but she ends up babbling a little.]

U-um well, it's called Prince and the Raven, and it was an unfinished story because the writer died before he finished, but since he could make what he wrote come true, he wrote that he could keep making stories after he died, and then the characters came out of the book, and the writer found me and turned me into a girl a-and asked if I wanted to take the role of Princess Tutu, and I did because I wanted to help Mytho. I-I'm not really a storybook character, I just took a role in a story because it came to life in Goldkrone.

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[of_france]

[France listens carefully, obviously very interested.]

I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the story... So, you're a princess where you're from? What sort of creature were you before?

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U-um I'm not really a princess at all, I became one to help Mytho smile again and I'm just... [Ahiru shrinks a little, blushing even further, and looks a bit dejected. She really hoped he'd still want to be friends after he found out what she was, and she continues in a quiet voice.] ...I'm just a duck. I couldn't talk or do anything like that, but I still liked dancing.

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[of_france]

A duck?

[France shrugs and still smiles. Oh, well, odder things have happened.]

A dancing princess... Ah, those are the most lovely.

[He winks playfully at her.]

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[She gapes for a moment, totally incredulous until she finally manages to squeak a reply.] You...you don't think that's weird?

[And then she just goes cherry red when he winks, too flustered to say anything for a moment.]

I-I'm still a beginner but I've been practicing when I can while I'm here...

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[of_france]

In all honesty, not really. There are many stranger things in this world.

[After all, they are in Hell.]

I would love to see you dance sometime when you're ready.