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[toplay_thefool]

[This is a strange noise to hear on the communicators. It’s rushing, mechanical - some might instantly recognise it as the sound of a train coming to a halt. People can be heard too, jostling. It’s quite the cacauphony.]

Excuse me --

[And it abruptly goes silent, but for the soft twittering of birds.]

Tch!

[And then a loud smack as someone

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[voice]

[seventh_key]

Wh-

[hang on a sec that sounds like - ]

Souji-kun?

[voice]

[toplay_thefool]

[A pause. He retrieves the thing he'd thought was his cell phone - it clearly is not, but it's talking at him anyway, and sounds a lot like -]

Chie-chan -

This place -

[Another pause, thoughtful. The surprise, the disorientation in his voice is reined in remarkably quickly.]

This can't be the TV world. Where are we?

[voice] [1/2]

[seventh_key]

Ha, it is you!

[been a couple weeks, leader. you don't write, you don't call ... ]

[voice]

[seventh_key]

No, it's not the TV World, and it's not Inaba, either ... I don't even think it's Japan, and Yosuke swears he had nothing to do with it, but I still have a hard time believing that -

[feel free to cut off her rambling anytime now]

[Voice]

[andallforone]

[There's no way in hell he'd not recognise that voice.]

Souji?

[Voice]

[toplay_thefool]

[Likewise, man, even if he's been expecting it. He grins minutely.]

Sorry to keep you waiting, partner.

[Voice]

[andallforone]

[A grin enters his voice.]

Hey, you can't be perfect all the time.

[Voice]

[toplay_thefool]

What can you tell me?

[audio]

[toplay_thefool]

I - [was pushed?] - think I fell in.

[Movement can be heard, the shift of a bag over shoulder, and footsteps on the ground.]

Does that happen often?

[audio]

[toplay_thefool]

[He pauses. He's pretty sure he knows what kid that might be.]

How often do - new people arrive here?