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Nutty times around here, huh? It's nice to see things happening, even if it's stuff like "spaceship crashing into building you call home, inevitable relocation into a room with three other people." There are worse things.

[Grump grump. She just sounds dry. It's a little overcrowded here for a girl who likes her privacy, but whatcha gonna do...]

And now a trip home. Or a try for it. What good news for everyone who doesn't want to be here, maybe - if it works they could as well just install a revolving door and kick the people who won't have with fighting in a surprise war right back home. It could make life pretty difficult for the Initiative if it works out, if nobody'll stick around from the goodness of their hearts, or whatever.

It's the first time I've seen a place manage that though. So that's something.

Anyhow, welcome in to all you new people, I hope the Hold has been kind so far. If you're homesick cheer up, it could be so much more terrible around these parts. The group missions aren't so bad. You got armed and you got money and maybe you won't even be here a long time. The future looks bright, right?

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Do you understand me?

[She's speaking very politely, in a girly way. But her accent is really, really old...]

[ It really is... Could make for some difficulty in more complicated conversations.

Suzaku's Japanese also errs on the overly polite side, but it's pretty modern. ]

Yes, I do. So you're Japanese as well?

Yeah. It sounds like you're from after me, though. [She can identify a modern accent, she's heard it enough.] What part are you from?

After you...?

[ As opposed to just differences between their world's Japans? ]

And right now I'm living in Tokyo, or at least... I was before I was brought here.

In time. I think. I've heard it before, with modern speakers... we always have different accents.

Anyway, I'm from Edo too. But it wasn't Tokyo then, I guess that's obvious.

I was wondering about that, but thought it might be a difference in worlds as well, but if you're talking about Edo then I'm definitely from some time after you.

Yeah. What time are you from exactly?

If you mean the year it's twenty-seventeen.

[ Though that's on the Britannian calender, so it doesn't match up to the date you'd find in most versions of Earth. ]

That's a long time ahead of me... [That's really all that means to her.] I'm from the second year of Tenmei. That's close to eighteen-hundred.

[ Damn, that's... ]

... A really long time ago. That's incredible!

Isn't it, when you think about how ridiculously impossible it should be? This place breaks all the rules.

Different worlds, different times... It would be a pretty amazing opportunity if it weren't for all the strings attached to coming here.

It could be worse! Did you ever fight, before?

You mean back in my Japan? Yeah I did. I was part of the military.

Then you're more prepared for this than some people who arrive! That's lucky, too. Do you want to help?

I am, but...

[ Getting quiet for a second. ]

I'm not sure yet. I don't agree with the Initiative's methods, or the way they bring innocent people into their fight, but at the same time having seen what the United Earth is capable of I can't say I want to sit by and do nothing.

... I want to think they're doing that because they're desperate, anyway. All of the people in this city are innocent too... or, well, they don't deserve a life like this, most of them, I think.

You're right about that. The civilians of this world are suffering, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are other locations besides Exsilium where people are living in the same conditions if not worse.

- and you're right about that. We don't really know, do we? There could be terrible places out there... terrible things happening...

The Transports don't, at least. It's hard to say how much the Initiative does.

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