[action/voice]

[reluctant10th]

D-Daemon Spade was---everyone else was...I, I don't understand what just happened and now--

it's not an illusion but--

[incoherent rambling. looking around the Golden District oh god what just happened. Picking at the bandage on his face

and realization finally dawns on him]

...I-It's this place again?

[[ooc: and mafia boss in training is back with a

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[voice]

[gallitrap]

... Welcome back.

I guess whatever's in charge here likes you.

[gallitrap]

Aha, it's nothing! One of my friends mentioned it before, is all. I'll keep a look out for it, next time I'm around there.

[reluctant10th]

Ah. Right. It's alright in the day time, I think. The ghost doesn't bother people during that time of the day.

Oh, I'm Tsuna by the way.

[gallitrap]

I'm Ruka. It's nice to meet you.

[reluctant10th]

It's nice to meet you too, Ruka.

[gallitrap]

Oh, I guess I have one more question for you. I hope you don't mind, all of this, but I haven't seen very many people who have left and come back. Not in this place, I mean.

[reluctant10th]

I don't mind. What did you want to ask me?

[gallitrap]

When you went back to your world. How much time passed between the time when you heard the music box, and the time when you went back? Could you tell?

[reluctant10th]

A few hours. But here, apparently it had been days.

[gallitrap]

Oh! No, no, not how long were you there, I meant... when you heard the music box the first time, and were brought here the first time. How much time passed between that moment when you left there, and the moment you were sent to when you left here? Like, for how long you were in Splendor before you were sent home, how much time passed in your home world? I'm trying to figure out if time matches up or not.

[reluctant10th]

Oh, um. I was here for...two months, I think. But back home, time hadn't moved at all. It was the same from when I left.

[gallitrap]

[murmured] so it is the same...

[louder] Thanks, Tsuna. That's what I suspected, but I didn't know for sure.

[reluctant10th]

No problem, Ruka.

Did you go home and come back too?

[gallitrap]

No, but I've been to a place like this before. I haven't been home in... oh. It's two years now, almost exactly.

[reluctant10th]

There are other places like this one, huh.

[There's a frown in his voice now]

That's...doesn't it bother you? Not seeing home for so long?

[gallitrap]

Mmhmm. Honestly, I miss that other place more than I miss the city I'm from originally. But that's because all the people who are most important to me went there, too, at one point or another, and I had lots of friends, and family. I don't miss the criminals or the bad stuff like that, but the people made up for it.

I bet that, if we haven't found a way out before then, there's going to be a bunch of people here who won't want to leave, either.