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[three_fiftyfive]

Like it's any more ridiculous than your name?

[the moment that's uttered? there's a silence.

wasn't she just in a hotel room? wasn't she just talking to...]

Yorick?

[no, this wasn't the same place. this wasn't even the same scenery! a few steps are recorded: slow. careful. cautious.] What the hell is going on?

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[fixthingsfirst]

355?

[three_fiftyfive]

Hero.

[fixthingsfirst]

Shit, I can't believe you're here. I guess people were right about all this.

Anyway, it looks like I'm late jumping on the welcome wagon, so you probably know all you need to know about what this place is, huh?

[three_fiftyfive]

Have they been telling you the same story about "magic castles" and "different worlds"?

[and a pause, she's mulling it over, but] I've been hearing a lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to be well-adjusted right off the bat. [a beat] Is it true people come from different... times?

[thirteenth]

It sounds like you're new to the castle.

[three_fiftyfive]

I've been hearing it, but not understanding.

[and idly;] Sounds like there really are men here.

[thirteenth]

It does take a lot of getting used to. I'm afraid you've been pulled from wherever you were previously to a different world - this castle. And...ah... yes, there are quite a few men here.

[three_fiftyfive]

[hmm.] That may very well be proof enough that I'm in another world. Let me guess, there's no easy way back home?