INBOX @ Cerealia

[mermaiding]

Why are you trying to contact me? Go away. Talk face to face. This device too annoying, waste of time!

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[powertotearer]

Oh, okay. That could work.

[His apartment is kind of...tiny. And also currently very empty.]

[mermaiding]

Good! Then, it is a date, as they say! [She even winks, but it's a joke...right...

She then pauses and scratches thoughtfully at her cheek.] Eiji, right? You were one of the new people. You are... well? [NOT THAT SHE CARES OR ANYTHING.] Mean, you are settling in okay?

[powertotearer]

[He really doesn't know how to take that wink. Or that maybe joke. You are going to give this poor boy so much anxiety.]

Yeah, I'm doing okay. [He tries to make his smile look convincing.] It's kind of a lot to take in, but I'm hanging in there.

[mermaiding]

[It's what she lives for.]

Hmm. [She narrows her eyes, unconvinced, and considers.] It is a lot. But, this place is interesting. Like it more than I did own home in lots of ways.

Are you alone? That is, are there others from your home here?

[powertotearer]

Really? Where are you from?

Just one person from my world made it, although there's someone else here I met in another place.

[mermaiding]

Earth. I do not know the lands. [She considers again and then shrugs; everyone else knows her business so what's one more person?] Can not go back home to ocean, even if returned to that world. I do not have place there anymore. Was wandering when I came here. If it is destroyed, good. I do not care.

[She waves a hand flippantly and huffs] Good riddance.

At least you are not alone. It is a good thing, to come into such place with allies already. [But she tilts her head] 'Another place'?

[powertotearer]

[Eiji again really wants to ask more, but he knows when to leave things alone--if Oona's serious about not caring about it being destroyed, then something had to have happened.

And if she's only saying that...then it's probably not his place to ask in the first place.

As for his own case...]

Oh, yeah. The three of us had been taken from our worlds to some kind of school. It was...well, it was worse than it sounds. Shigeru disappeared one day, and then a few months later, Ankh and I got out. But I guess we didn't get home, or at least, not for long.

[mermaiding]

School is already bad, can not imagine being stuck there! [She laughs] I have seen the school here, though I am too old to go. It seems boring. Can not think of worse place to get trapped.

[Still, that sounds weird.] Hmm... Well. CERES says they will help. Maybe. [Did they actually say that though? It's been a long time since Oona's gotten that opening presentation stuff.]

Perhaps you will see your home again.

[powertotearer]

I definitely don't want to have to go through classes again, here or anywhere else.

That's what I heard too, and I'm hoping it's true. There's a lot of people I miss.