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[It's about mid-afternoon when yet another new arrival appears out of thin air into the middle of the baseball diamond. He stumbles, as if he'd been expecting stairs, and that's when his phone falls on the ground, flipping open, and the video feed turns on.
Sephiroth spends a moment holding his head, blinks blearily, but seems to get over the nausea and disorientation rather quickly. Upon noticing his phone, he picks it up, frowning at it.]
I didn't turn this on. [Though, as it is on, he continues to speak to it; presumably someone is listening on the other end. He sounds eerily calm about finding himself in the new setting, as if the change in scenery has not phased him significantly. Still, there is a spark of curiosity hidden in his eyes and the slightest note of annoyance in his tone. Sephiroth has reason to be annoyed - he had been lost in thought, walking back from the reactor to Nibelheim. If this was the result of a clever trap, he had no one but himself to blame for his capture.]
If anyone could tell me where I am and what has happened...
[His first thoughts spring to Genesis. Somehow, his former friend could have organized a trap that transported him... If that were the case, however, Sephiroth could not possibly imagine why Genesis would bring him to a grass diamond covered in graffiti somewhere near the-- And, as he notices the shapes of the city against the horizon line, he realizes it's definitely not any place he's been before. The air smells different. Sephiroth knows he is nowhere near Midgar. Suddenly, Genesis seems quite a bit out of the picture.
As an afterthought, he adds:]
...And who is responsible for this.
[Throughout, he doesn't move from the center of the diamond and the video feed shows no more than his face and shoulders.]
Sephiroth spends a moment holding his head, blinks blearily, but seems to get over the nausea and disorientation rather quickly. Upon noticing his phone, he picks it up, frowning at it.]
I didn't turn this on. [Though, as it is on, he continues to speak to it; presumably someone is listening on the other end. He sounds eerily calm about finding himself in the new setting, as if the change in scenery has not phased him significantly. Still, there is a spark of curiosity hidden in his eyes and the slightest note of annoyance in his tone. Sephiroth has reason to be annoyed - he had been lost in thought, walking back from the reactor to Nibelheim. If this was the result of a clever trap, he had no one but himself to blame for his capture.]
If anyone could tell me where I am and what has happened...
[His first thoughts spring to Genesis. Somehow, his former friend could have organized a trap that transported him... If that were the case, however, Sephiroth could not possibly imagine why Genesis would bring him to a grass diamond covered in graffiti somewhere near the-- And, as he notices the shapes of the city against the horizon line, he realizes it's definitely not any place he's been before. The air smells different. Sephiroth knows he is nowhere near Midgar. Suddenly, Genesis seems quite a bit out of the picture.
As an afterthought, he adds:]
...And who is responsible for this.
[Throughout, he doesn't move from the center of the diamond and the video feed shows no more than his face and shoulders.]