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[Nothing like a rude awakening at 2:30 in the morning, right? Well, you're in for a treat fellow refugees. It seems like one just flew over the cuckoos nest. Not that you can tell initially. At first this just looks like some inconsiderate kid with rings under his eyes and messy hair, breathing down the camera lens a little too up close and personal.]

Yo. If we haven't met yet, hello. I'm Yosuke. But...but if you're new, you should count to three and then stop listening. Okay? One, two...three. Alright, go away. It's for your own good.

[For emphasis, he clicks the lamp beside him off, and the video goes dark. Nothing to see here, apparently.]

Listen. Guys. I'm curious what people do here for fun. Because uh-look. I've tried sleeping, and training, and then I tried going outside. And talking to the people in the market, and you know. Looking for animals. And I found some, but they were really creepy and mutated. You know? So it's impossible to forget this place is so...

[The light comes back on with a soft click. The phone-roll-up is on the bed table now. Yosuke smiles down at it tightly, and shrugs. Then something thumps in the other room and he jumps at least a foot, gesturing wildly and knocking the device off the table. Someone get the kid some decaf.

He hangs over the side of the bed and gazes at the mobile, his image now fractured like a kaleidoscope, and gives a rather put-upon sigh for a guy who was just trying so hard to be personable.]

Damn it. I'm cracked...

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Not anymore, though it did for a long time! You get used to it after a while, and at least it's cool and damp here. Deserts are even worse!

Eugh, it really is cool and damp here. I wish the sun would come out for just one day. But I guess a mermaid doesn't feel that way, huh?

Nope! Especially because it's so hard to find nice places to swim out here. Have you even been to the ocean?

This ocean? No. I didn't even look for it actually. I guess I just assumed it must be pretty bad.

It is! It burns my gills if I try to swim in it!

Gross. Are you okay?

I'm much better now, yeah! It was a long time ago and I just have not tried again since then.

I don't understand how anyone ever let things get this bad. It doesn't seem right, does it?

I don't think it could be helped. War does terrible things.

Yeah, but usually they stop sooner. And people can move away from the places that are destroyed.

I don't think it was that easy! If it was, they would have done it.

You must not be familiar with my country.

What country is that?

Japan. It used to be a group of islands in the Pacific ocean beside Asia. Someone said it's not here anymore, though.

Oh... I'm sorry to hear that!

Yeah...

Uh. I guess that's a lot of places now. I can't decide if it's better or worse to stay on your own planet for something like this.

I guess it depends on the planet! Mine wouldn't be so great, right now.

No? What's wrong with yours?

It got hit by meteors and all but twelve of us died. Thirteen if you count the Empress, but I sure don't!

Oh...

Wow. That really sucks.

It's not a big deal anymore, really. We knew it had to happen!

You knew? And...it doesn't bother you? You couldn't stop it?

Well... it was a lot of meteors. And it had to happen. Even if it didn't, how could we stop meteors??

It probably only works in movies.

...What do you mean it had to happen, though?

If it didn't, the timeline wouldn't be right. We'd be doomed!

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