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[KURPLUNK!-that's the sound of a girl dropping out of nowhere.]
HE-!
Whaaaaat? It's warm! The Dark Kingdom have ruined the North! They--![A bike bell chimes and wheels whurl pass.]
Ami-chan, why would there be--? [Have a very audible gasp.] Ami! Rei-chan! Minako-chan! Mako-chaaaan! EVERYONE, WHERE ARE YOU? Where did you go?
Hellooooooooo?
What am I supposed to do? [Clunk! Hisssssssss the audio feed becomes more difficult to hear because it's on the ground now.] I'm not supposed to be here! We have to save the earth! We have to save Mamoru-san... Then we'll all go home again. I'm no good at this all on my own. I need you all.
[The sniffling distinctly clashes with the static.]
Huh? What's this? A phone?
[KURPLUNK!-that's the sound of a girl dropping out of nowhere.]
HE-!
Whaaaaat? It's warm! The Dark Kingdom have ruined the North! They--![A bike bell chimes and wheels whurl pass.]
Ami-chan, why would there be--? [Have a very audible gasp.] Ami! Rei-chan! Minako-chan! Mako-chaaaan! EVERYONE, WHERE ARE YOU? Where did you go?
Hellooooooooo?
What am I supposed to do? [Clunk! Hisssssssss the audio feed becomes more difficult to hear because it's on the ground now.] I'm not supposed to be here! We have to save the earth! We have to save Mamoru-san... Then we'll all go home again. I'm no good at this all on my own. I need you all.
[The sniffling distinctly clashes with the static.]
Huh? What's this? A phone?
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Date: 2010-07-16 04:20 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2010-07-17 03:07 am (UTC)I do see a fountain. It's up the street.
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:54 am (UTC)What do you look like, sweetie?
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:59 am (UTC)I'm not very tall. I have blond hair and it's in pigtails with buns.
...You can really help me?
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:15 am (UTC)I can definitely try.
[Aaand this is Penny, wandering around and--ah, there's a girl with blonde hair and pigtailed buns. Penny forgot to ask for her name; hopefully she'll recognize her voice.]
Hello! You're the girl I was talking to on the network?
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:21 am (UTC)HELLO?
I'm here!
Oh yeah... action!
Date: 2010-07-17 05:34 am (UTC)[She holds out a hand for a handshake.]
I'm Penny. Welcome to the City!
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:45 am (UTC)Tsukino Usagi! Thank you for coming for me, Penny.
What City is this?
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:50 am (UTC)Not a problem! And do you go by Tsukino, or Usagi? I never really know for sure.
[Er...]
Well? It's kind of just the City. Capital c. The way I understand it, a bunch of universes cross here and we end up with people from all kinds of places.
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Date: 2010-07-17 06:14 am (UTC)Usagi.
A boy, Huey, he told me something like that. And uh someone else said that time changes and that when I go home it will be right where I left, like nothing happened.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:14 pm (UTC)[Penny starts back to the Welcome Center.]
Yep, time... is kind of strange. Really strange. You can be here for months and months but when you go home, you end up exactly when and where you were when you came to the City. When I went home, I didn't remember the City, either.
[She looks backwards to make sure Usagi's following.]
So don't worry about your friends at home. Everything'll be exactly the way you left it when you go back.
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Date: 2010-07-18 05:41 am (UTC)You don't remember?
...you came back!
That's good. I think... but I'm here without them. Doesn't that mean that my time is frozen? Or are they moving and I'm frozen? Or--
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Date: 2010-07-18 09:58 pm (UTC)[Did she want to come back? Sure, why not? Beats being dead. Penny thinks about these last questions.]
Honestly? I have no idea at all. I don't think anyone's frozen. When I think about time in different universes, I think of ribbons. Like... imagine you're a ribbon. Your ribbon leaves the ribbons of everyone else where you're from and meets up with the ribbons here. When you leave, your ribbon loops back around to where it left the other one.
[She shrugs expansively.]
I'm no good with physics and different universes and stuff. Billy tried to explain it to me once, but it all went over my head.