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[blondejokes]

There had better be a good reason why I'm fighting- [ A grunt is followed by the sound of flesh being punctured. ]- against these blood-thirsty... things and why I'm not in Konoha.

[ Ino is not very happy. Or informed, actually, because she left as soon as she came to. ]

Comments

permavoice coming later

[blondejokes]

Thanks. I've already gotten the gist of this place. [ kind of ]

Re: permavoice coming later

[reginagloriae]

Huh? And are you still outside?

[blondejokes]

No, I'm inside now.

[reginagloriae]

Thank god. Did you get to the apartments?

[blondejokes]

Apartments? No.

[reginagloriae]

The underground mall then?

[blondejokes]

No, just a ... building somewhere.

[reginagloriae]

As long you're safe. I hope this wasn't too shocking.

[blondejokes]

I'm sure it'll be worse once the shock wears off and I can actually think clearly.

[reginagloriae]

Maybe you'll go back home soon.

[blondejokes]

I hope we can all go home soon. But I'm not leaving without Shikamaru.

[reginagloriae]

Maybe you'll get back together. It's unusual, but sometimes it happens.

[blondejokes]

Then why didn't it happen the last time I was apparently here?

[reginagloriae]

...You don't choose when or how you return. It's like when you arrive.

[blondejokes]

Painful and confusing? I'll pass. There has to be some way to fix that Core thing.

[reginagloriae]

Huh. I was about to say "sudden and without warning". I haven't gone home yet to know if we're kicked out in that way.

Yeah, I know. But nobody seems to do anything about it.

[blondejokes]

Why not? That should be what everyone is working on as soon as they get here- finding a way home.

[reginagloriae]

People can't even access to the Core.

[blondejokes]

They can't just block it off like that if they won't be using it. They're more concerned with fighting than getting us all back home.

[reginagloriae]

Huh? The corporations control the city. They have things that cancel powers, so people who would be able to get in wouldn't.

[blondejokes]

Cancel powers? Like a seal that can affect a huge group of people? [ That sounds dangerous. ]

[reginagloriae]

Something like that. I never met one of them, but I heard that people called them "Voids."

[blondejokes]

We don't have any on our side, do we?

[reginagloriae]

I don't think they like us that much.

[blondejokes]

All the more reason for them to help us find a way out of this place.