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▶ TDM .013
You awaken amidst the darkness with only a faint light to greet you. Your body is hemmed in by shards of crystals, gently sparkling and possibly pricking your skin. The surrounding landscape is dyed in the pinks and purples of the dusk filled with crystals protruding from the ground, some as large as a skyscraper. After an hour or two of wandering through the crystal wilderness, a group of people find you worse for wear. They are the gallant Moon Knights from the planet of Prismatica. Because of the strange phenomena during the past months when scientists observed the sudden appearance of rainbow crystals in the sky, the government has been feverishly combing through the moon for more Moonblessed to be rescued. You’ll eventually be brought into Iris’s moon government center.
You all may have your usual inquiries — Where are we? Who are you? What's going on? — and the Prismals are almost too eager to answer. They tell you about their world and about the first appearance of the Moonblessed as the medical staff give you an examination to make sure you’re not carrying any viruses or biological hazards. If you react violently, you may be restrained and nerfed with a specialized neurotransmitting gun that releases a numbing agent through the top of your spine. Once the examinations are over, you’re informed that you will be provided accommodations on their planet during your stay. You will then be escorted to the docks, and led onto a large transport vessel that makes frequent trips back and forth between the Iris moon and the planet. Faces onboard vary from both old and new Moonblessed as well as the local Prismals.
The next destination: Prismatica.
▶ Welcome to the Jungle
Iris Moon, Government Center (Arrival) and Planet Prismatica, City of Lunatia | top
Welcome to Prismatica’s hub, Lunatia, the city of your dreams! A bustling metropolis lush with bright lights, vibrant colors, luxuriant plant life, and all the conveniences of technology absent from your own world… It seems like paradise to all the uninitiated. After a quick tour of the city, new arrivals can find themselves getting cozy in their new homes.
▶ Let’s Do the Time Warp Now
Lunatia | top
Time is relative, but the days do seem shorter — or longer — than usual. A minute passes like an hour. An hour passes like a minute. Everything appears to be moving along as normal, but the numbers and hands on clocks flicker and spin with an unusual and worrying slowness or quickness. Eventually you notice that the darkness of the night barely lasts long enough for you to fall asleep while the sun seems to glare down upon you for an eternity. The temporal shifts disorient your body, which now grows lethargic from being overworked and underslept. Soon, the temporal abnormalities reach a critical point…
▶ Starlight, Star Bright, First Star I See Tonight
Lunatia | top
The city’s landscape is not spared by the erratic flow of time. Buildings and streets continuously flicker between the beautiful and vibrant paradise it has become to the ruins of glory days long past. Your eyes may struggle to adjust as you try and convince yourself of what is real and what is not. High rise towers one moment will become wreckage the next, filled with technological debris and the echoing cries of the terrified, and the mighty wingspan of an unknown creature continues to hovers in the distance. The illusion will only last but a minute before you’re back in the present, going about your daily business. However, your trip from the future and back is far from over.
Soon, breaking news reports will inform the city about the sudden vanishing of certain celestial bodies in the sky. Though the moons remain where they should, the nights grow longer and darker as the stars in the sky start disappearing one by one until only the sun remains, eclipsed by some mysterious force. Lunar Scientia has already sent capable teams to investigate the abnormalities, so they ask the public to be patient as they wait for the reports. Until then, they have issued safety guidelines and measures to effectively light the city. The Caelus Tower appears to burn brighter than ever.
▶ Oh, They Just Can’t Wait to be King
Outside Lunatia, Port Sylvel | top
On the ides of the third month, an emergency broadcast appears from Captain Natela:
Captain Natela
Greetings, Prismals and Moonblessed.
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Port Sylvel has been completely crystallized. The Moon Knights are currently recruiting willing explorers and scientists to investigate the cause. Investigations are still pending, but the outlook is grim. The only survivors were among the few we carried out of the city last month. The rest perished from the crystallization.
Our heart goes out to those affected by this plight. There is no cause for panic. There is no sign that the crystallization is spreading beyond Port Sylvel. We Moon Knights stand with the people of Prismatica, as we have done for centuries. We are not mere defenders of a city but protectors of a planet. We endeavor to find the cause of this tragedy and bring peace and justice to the lives it claimed. Until then, we ask for your cooperation. Stay calm and press onward.
Those who volunteer to participate in the expedition will be rewarded for their efforts. They will be assisted by experts from the Lunar Scientia as well as the bear Prismal and Moon Knight Fahrouk, who looks worse for wear after hearing the news.
Officer Fahrouk
Oh, Moonblessed. It's you. Yeah, Hala is doing good. Won the spelling bee! I think she might make the nationals. ... I… I don't think I ever told you. Port Sylvel was our hometown. My wife is buried there. We’d go there every spring. Hala loved picking the flowers there. Did you know that different flowers grow in Port Sylvel compared to Lunatia? Haaaah...
Moonblessed! I know you think I'm not cool enough to hang out with you, and all I do is ask for your help, but please let me go with you! Please… This is something I have to do as a soldier, a husband, and a father.
… What? You always thought I was cool?
Finding strength and resolve after the participants tell him he's supposed to assist them on their mission anyway, Fahrouk distributes LIFE suits to the participants as he briefs them on what they're about to do. He and the participating Moonblessed will then be transported via a large transport vessel.
Port Sylvel is hardly recognizable. What was once an idyllic coastal town is now a site of tragic beauty — crystal formations encase buildings and Prismals like jagged glass coffins, as if preserving life in its final moments. Readings from life detectors tell you that everyone in the crystal has passed on, but you and your fellow Moonblessed think you can still hear their cries of distress carried along by the wind, warning you about the Prideful King.
Eventually, transmissions from the LIFE suits announce an order for escape. Buildings collapse and shatter in your wake, and the ground quakes violently as something awakens in the far distance...
▶ questions
Iris Moon, Government Center (Arrival) and Planet Prismatica, City of Lunatia | top
Welcome to Prismatica’s hub, Lunatia, the city of your dreams! A bustling metropolis lush with bright lights, vibrant colors, luxuriant plant life, and all the conveniences of technology absent from your own world… It seems like paradise to all the uninitiated. After a quick tour of the city, new arrivals can find themselves getting cozy in their new homes.
A Settle in your new home at Level 2 to find new roommates and say hello to your neighbors! City officials will give you directions to the designated districts across Level 2 and instruct you to pick out a unit. Each apartment complex has a different aesthetic, some may look cozy, some stylish, and some bizarre. The free accommodations have a basic living space that can only fit two or three people at most in one unit.
Starter Chromaspace furnishings are provided which can be controlled with the touch of a built-in panel. Examples are color-changing curtains, transforming sofa beds, cabinets turning into tables, etc. Customizing your apartment or moving out will have to wait until you earn more chroma. Until then, why don’t you check out your new neighborhood or explore the city levels? Maybe your new roommates or neighbors can give you a “hand” with allowance for dinner.
▶ Let’s Do the Time Warp Now
Lunatia | top
Time is relative, but the days do seem shorter — or longer — than usual. A minute passes like an hour. An hour passes like a minute. Everything appears to be moving along as normal, but the numbers and hands on clocks flicker and spin with an unusual and worrying slowness or quickness. Eventually you notice that the darkness of the night barely lasts long enough for you to fall asleep while the sun seems to glare down upon you for an eternity. The temporal shifts disorient your body, which now grows lethargic from being overworked and underslept. Soon, the temporal abnormalities reach a critical point…
B Due to the temporal distortions, Prismals and Moonblessed new and old feel their bodies sporadically transform in the strangest of ways. Your joints ache like they’ve carried a lifetime’s weight of misfortune and regret. Your voice turns high-pitched like a certain pair has yet to drop. You turn into a confused infant in one moment and the seasoned fighter you always wanted to be in the next. Your memories also shuffle around along with your apparent age, leaving you confused and unsettled. The transformations can occur and last for as long as the 11th, when everything turns back to normal without incident. That time your baby self peed in your pants? Never happened. Until then, moonlacing seems to stabilize the weird abnormalities.
▶ Starlight, Star Bright, First Star I See Tonight
Lunatia | top
The city’s landscape is not spared by the erratic flow of time. Buildings and streets continuously flicker between the beautiful and vibrant paradise it has become to the ruins of glory days long past. Your eyes may struggle to adjust as you try and convince yourself of what is real and what is not. High rise towers one moment will become wreckage the next, filled with technological debris and the echoing cries of the terrified, and the mighty wingspan of an unknown creature continues to hovers in the distance. The illusion will only last but a minute before you’re back in the present, going about your daily business. However, your trip from the future and back is far from over.
Soon, breaking news reports will inform the city about the sudden vanishing of certain celestial bodies in the sky. Though the moons remain where they should, the nights grow longer and darker as the stars in the sky start disappearing one by one until only the sun remains, eclipsed by some mysterious force. Lunar Scientia has already sent capable teams to investigate the abnormalities, so they ask the public to be patient as they wait for the reports. Until then, they have issued safety guidelines and measures to effectively light the city. The Caelus Tower appears to burn brighter than ever.
C For these dark hours, Lunar Scientia releases their latest Chroma-powered technology for Moonblessed use: star lanterns. When a star lantern is held by two Moonblessed, it absorbs newly generated Chroma from them, enabling it to light up the missing stars in the sky as you travel from place to place. The light’s color and intensity will depend on you and your partner’s bond, the spectrum ranging from a violet of hatred to a red full of love. Indifference, however, will not light the lantern at all. It also comes with a float function so that it can be released into the atmosphere without needing to carry it everywhere. Since the technology is limited in stock, Moonblessed may only have one star lantern in their possession.
One of the issued guidelines is to never walk through dark alleys alone even with the lanterns, as the crime rate has increased lately due to those taking advantage of the chaos. This is especially rampant in Level 3, at the mouth of the Lightless.
▶ Oh, They Just Can’t Wait to be King
Outside Lunatia, Port Sylvel | top
On the ides of the third month, an emergency broadcast appears from Captain Natela:
Captain NatelaGreetings, Prismals and Moonblessed.
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Port Sylvel has been completely crystallized. The Moon Knights are currently recruiting willing explorers and scientists to investigate the cause. Investigations are still pending, but the outlook is grim. The only survivors were among the few we carried out of the city last month. The rest perished from the crystallization.
Our heart goes out to those affected by this plight. There is no cause for panic. There is no sign that the crystallization is spreading beyond Port Sylvel. We Moon Knights stand with the people of Prismatica, as we have done for centuries. We are not mere defenders of a city but protectors of a planet. We endeavor to find the cause of this tragedy and bring peace and justice to the lives it claimed. Until then, we ask for your cooperation. Stay calm and press onward.
Those who volunteer to participate in the expedition will be rewarded for their efforts. They will be assisted by experts from the Lunar Scientia as well as the bear Prismal and Moon Knight Fahrouk, who looks worse for wear after hearing the news.
Officer FahroukOh, Moonblessed. It's you. Yeah, Hala is doing good. Won the spelling bee! I think she might make the nationals. ... I… I don't think I ever told you. Port Sylvel was our hometown. My wife is buried there. We’d go there every spring. Hala loved picking the flowers there. Did you know that different flowers grow in Port Sylvel compared to Lunatia? Haaaah...
Moonblessed! I know you think I'm not cool enough to hang out with you, and all I do is ask for your help, but please let me go with you! Please… This is something I have to do as a soldier, a husband, and a father.
… What? You always thought I was cool?
Finding strength and resolve after the participants tell him he's supposed to assist them on their mission anyway, Fahrouk distributes LIFE suits to the participants as he briefs them on what they're about to do. He and the participating Moonblessed will then be transported via a large transport vessel.
Port Sylvel is hardly recognizable. What was once an idyllic coastal town is now a site of tragic beauty — crystal formations encase buildings and Prismals like jagged glass coffins, as if preserving life in its final moments. Readings from life detectors tell you that everyone in the crystal has passed on, but you and your fellow Moonblessed think you can still hear their cries of distress carried along by the wind, warning you about the Prideful King.
D Gigantic crystal lions flank the passage of the port city, their wings spread open and blue flames pouring forth from their mouths. You hear rumbling guttural noises, and if you approach them, their roars will escalate to warn you about proceeding any further. Beware: a single bite from these lions can easily tear through the LIFE suit and cause your body to crystallize quickly unless someone rushes in to moonlace with you to halt the effect. These lions are unlike the beasts you’ve fought before: their otherworldly strength is overwhelming, and nothing seems to wear them down. Destroying them seems pointless, as they quickly regenerate the minute they are obliterated.
Eventually, transmissions from the LIFE suits announce an order for escape. Buildings collapse and shatter in your wake, and the ground quakes violently as something awakens in the far distance...
▶ questions
If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.
WHO CAN POST? ▶ Test drive memes are for new characters only. Existing players may not post starter threads in the test drime meme. However, current players are more than welcome to use these prompts for their own posts in the IC communities, personal inboxes, catch-all posts, etc.!
IS THIS CANON? ▶ As our test drive memes are game canon, feel free to keep any threads that happen here as canon for your character should they be accepted.
ANNIVERSARY ▶ Happy first anniversary, Prismatica! Thank you to all of you who have been with us since the beginning. We appreciate it immensely! Remember that we always welcome input and suggestions from players. This event is a little out of the ordinary because of our anniversary celebration.
OPT IN AND OUT ▶ For current players, please do not be alarmed! As always, you do not have to be affected as there are safe areas across Lunatia that remain as is.
AGING UP AND DOWN ▶ You have free reign over how long and how many times your character will be affected. If a character doesn’t have a canon appearance from the past or future, you are welcome to provide one of your own from imagination and use your own PB. You are allowed to speculate on how they’ll look, act, their potential future, and so on. All of these will be temporary to this event. The intensity of the effect is also up to you: whether it will only affect appearance alone and retain their current memories.
IMPORTANT ▶ As a reminder, writing sexual content with characters below 15 years old is a violation of the game's rules and potentially Dreamwidth’s ToS. Players caught doing this will be banned from the game.
WHO CAN POST? ▶ Test drive memes are for new characters only. Existing players may not post starter threads in the test drime meme. However, current players are more than welcome to use these prompts for their own posts in the IC communities, personal inboxes, catch-all posts, etc.!
IS THIS CANON? ▶ As our test drive memes are game canon, feel free to keep any threads that happen here as canon for your character should they be accepted.
ANNIVERSARY ▶ Happy first anniversary, Prismatica! Thank you to all of you who have been with us since the beginning. We appreciate it immensely! Remember that we always welcome input and suggestions from players. This event is a little out of the ordinary because of our anniversary celebration.
OPT IN AND OUT ▶ For current players, please do not be alarmed! As always, you do not have to be affected as there are safe areas across Lunatia that remain as is.
AGING UP AND DOWN ▶ You have free reign over how long and how many times your character will be affected. If a character doesn’t have a canon appearance from the past or future, you are welcome to provide one of your own from imagination and use your own PB. You are allowed to speculate on how they’ll look, act, their potential future, and so on. All of these will be temporary to this event. The intensity of the effect is also up to you: whether it will only affect appearance alone and retain their current memories.
IMPORTANT ▶ As a reminder, writing sexual content with characters below 15 years old is a violation of the game's rules and potentially Dreamwidth’s ToS. Players caught doing this will be banned from the game.
Petra Macneary | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
[Petra is in a state of shock, eyes wide, drinking in the bustling, alien world around her, brimming with technologies she's never even dreamed of. It makes her feel like a child again, first stepping foot in a country vastly different from her home. At least this time around she speaks the language. You wouldn't know it though. She's said very little during the tour despite her obvious curiosity. She honestly doesn't even know where to start
It isn't until they've finished the tour and moved on to housing that she's able to start to process everything.
Petra gravitates towards the 'cozy' looking apartments as they look the closest to what she's already familiar with. It's unclear whether anyone has already claimed the one she peeks into though.]
Hello?
2. Starlight, Star Bright
[Petra vaguely understands the concept of the lanterns and certainly sees the need for them, the city is very dark. The instructions regarding how to light the lantern made her think that magic had to be involved somehow.
Now to find a second person. Of course, she doesn't have to go far before running into someone and she offers them a smile whether they're a stranger or not.]
Excuse me. Could I be asking for your help? This lantern is requiring two people to make it light.
I am not understanding why they are not just using fire and torches...
3. Wildcard
[Have something else in mind? Go for it :)]
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I wasn't expecting to find you here, Petra.
[Maybe at this point he should start expecting his classmates... Anyway, Hubert looks exactly the same as he did during their time at the Officers Academy, though he's ditched the uniform for... well, all black. He still hasn't embraced a wardrobe with color much less the more wild fashions present here, to absolutely no one's surprise.]
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[Her eyes widen and she subconsciously stands a little taller even as she takes a small step back, almost looking ready for a fight. She had, after all, joined forces with the Alliance and the Professor in the hope of helping Brigid gain true independence. Turning Edelgard's request to join her down was certainly be considered a betrayal.]
I could be saying the same for you. What are you knowing of this place? Are we stuck?
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[He'd part with the information easily even if he wouldn't gain anything from it; the others had been remarkably generous with information despite their opposing views and he's content with the idea of leaving them be while they're here. No sense in dragging this world into a conflict that has no place here.
More importantly, Petra is one of the Black Eagles, and even though that means far less considering the many possible futures, it isn't something he's going to ignore.]
There is no way to return home - some are returned seemingly at random, but there are quite a few of us that have been here for some time.
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[It takes her a moment to remember what that particular word's definition is but when she does she frowns a little.]
It is feeling like our arriving here is also at random.
This place has strangeness but it does not seem bad. Better than the place with the colorful rocks. [She means where she'd woken up, surrounded by crystals.] And its people do not seem bad.
[She thinks again about what he's just said.] Are you meaning there are more people from Garreg Mach here?
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Yes. There are quite a few of us.
[How does he put this...]
This place is capable of pulling us from different points in time. For example, before I arrived here, I was a student at the Officers Academy with Professor Byleth leading the Black Eagles. My memories are not the same as everyone else's, however. Seteth is also here, with memories of a war that has not yet taken place for me, five years in the future.
[As always, he's careful in expressing exactly how much he knows about that future war, but this part is information Petra should have.]
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You are still a student at Garreg Mach? [That's certainly what it sounded like but she has to be sure she's understood him.] Hm... that is... strange. Why would our memories not be matching?
I am remembering too but Professor Byleth is leading the Golden Deers. And the war... I am also remembering the war. Like Seteth.
[Like him, she's careful to reveal enough but not too much. It's difficult not to act cagey. She still wasn't comfortable with the choices she'd had to make. No matter what she'd decided she would've been betraying someone so she'd done what she thought was best, for Brigid and herself.]
Seteth told you of the war... What did he tell you? Does his memories before the war have a match with yours?
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Welcome to the Jungle
Interesting.]
Hello. I take it you wanted to have a look around too? You can come in for a closer look if you want.
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You are sure? If this is the room you are wanting, I will keep looking.
[She walks in, peering around, poised as always.]
Have you- [She pauses, knowing that's not correct.] Did you just arrive?
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He doesn't like not having all the information around him at his fingertips.
But he smiles.]
I did. This isn't a place that seems to suit me though. Maybe you'll like it better.
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[She pauses, shifting her weight to one foot as she glances around the apartment, giving it a serious look over, considering it.
It's difficult to keep her mind on the apartment with the gravity of everything that had just happened weighing on her.]
This place... it has strangeness but it is not bad. The people are not bad. They are giving us homes. Trying to be help- Trying to help us.
I am thinking this home is not for me also. [She turns back to Yuri.] Would you like to be looking together? [They weren't close by any means but having someone familiar around was still a reassurance.]
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I'd like that. I think you have a good eye for finding yourself a home in troubling situations.
[Which may or may not have deeper meaning.]
Let's try the one next door. The door was unlocked last I saw.
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Sure! I don't mind helping.
[He tilted his head in thought at her statement.]
This place has some sort of weird magic. Apparently these lanterns can use that Chroma energy we generate to help the stars light back up?
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Chroma. [She nods, recognizing the word.] That is a magical energy from inside us?
[She touches her hand to her chest, imagining that is where their Chroma comes from. It had been vaguely explained to her but she still doesn't completely understand it.]
I am not thinking these lanterns are an idea with badness. But there are no lights at all. The city could be using both lanterns and torches to give light. [Instead of relying solely on the lanterns.]
I was told we are both needing to be touching the lantern to light it. [She holds it out slightly so that he can more easily reach it but she has no idea what to expect.]
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[He thinks on that a moment taking a glance around.]
There should be more street lights than there are. I wonder if some of those went out too?
[At the mention of them both holding it he moves over to Petra.]
Right. Let's give it a try.
[He places his hand over Petra's to hold it. Seeing as they were strangers the color it glows would be somewhere between yellow and orange. At least if she felt like Jaune, grateful to have someone else who wanted to help others.]
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[The blush deepens slightly at the feeling of his hand, light and warm over her own. The lantern starts to glow immediately, a faint pale orange.]
If we are to be holding hands, we should know one another's names. [It's not overly obvious, but she's teasing a little. She smiles softly at him, looking up from the lantern.] My name is Petra.
[She tilts her head, frowning a little at the lantern.] It does not have much brightness...
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Oh right! My name's Jaune Arc.
[Jaune did miss the fact she was teasing him, but he wasn't yet used to her way of speaking to determine what was the baseline for her anyway.
At the mention of the brightness he looks down at the lantern.]
I think they said something about it being based on our feelings for each other? If that's the case we are kind of strangers so it makes sense it wouldn't be that bright.
[He looked up,]
but they said it'll help light up the stars somehow?
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1!!
But that sure is a voice she hears? A new player has entered the scene, or so it would seem. Time to turn on the charm.]
A second opinion! Just what I—
[&mdashneed, she obviously means to say, but as she pokes her head back into the living room, prepared to give this stranger her most charming smile... ah? Ah. Goodbye, smile; hello, honest shock.]
Petra?
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[It's a huge relief to see a familiar face and she has to resist the urge to hug Hilda. Even if she has been fighting by her side for the past few months and had just woken up in an alien world, a hug still felt like just a bit too much.]
Seeing you is giving me great happiness!
Are you knowing anything about this place? Anything more than what we are being told? [She has no reason to think that Hilda might know something she doesn't, but it's worth asking.]
Would you like to be talking outside? This color is giving my eyes pain...
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In any case, people do tend to go around knocking on doors, and... well! Someone he knows!
...he's never sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but he does smile a bit whenever he sees an ally.]
Ah, Petra! Hello. You have just arrived, I presume?
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[She greets him with a bow, offering him a smile as she straightens. She certainly hadn't been expecting to run into any familiar faces, not after waking up on an alien planet surrounded by crystals.]
I... yes?
You are speaking like you have been here for some time. But... this is not having- [She pauses and corrects herself.]- Not making sense. [She'd seen him just days ago at Garreg Mach before they'd left for Fort Merceus. He couldn't be there and here.]
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Ah, I have been here a while, yes, but the flow of time is... strange here. Some of the familiar faces I have seen are as they were five years ago, and several people remember different versions of events, as though they’re from a slightly different history.
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At first, she thinks maybe there's something he's said that she hasn't quite understood the meaning of but the words themselves were simple enough.]
I am... not sure that I am understanding. What you are saying... how is it possible?
Is that how I was just seeing you but you are saying you have been here for some time?
['Time is strange'. Was that really something she was about to simply accept? It didn't make any sense, but she wasn't sure there was any way to explain it if Seteh himself couldn't.]
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[He sighs, because gosh, he wants to be better than this!!]
I would say you get used to it, but unfortunately, I still find myself struggling with it.
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Hi! Did you need some help looking for your apartment? Wait...Petra?
[Another familiar face from home! It would be easier to stay in Prisma with many more of his classmates joining him.]
Did you just come here? Have you been here long?