001 | Yes, It's the End of the World As We Know It | Audio/Visual

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

[A young woman's voice echoes over the Vine first. IN fact, it sounds almost exactly like that of someone else the residents have heard from recently. A shrill note of panic has managed to worm its way into her voice, though.]

What is this place? Where-? How-?

[After a moment the mirror comes on. It's Asuka! Or her doppelganger. The only real difference is that she has a swathe of bandages covering her right arm and another tied tightly around her head, covering her left eye. The one that is visible is bright, blue, alert and almost panicked. Her uncovered hand reaches out toward the mirror.]

This isn't right! I was just-

I was-

[Her eye widens slightly.]

Oh my God. I-

[She chokes, retches and she sinks out of sight for a moment, hand covering her mouth. The rather unpleasant sound of someone losing their lunch is all that can be heard for a few moments, gasps for air and then more retching.]

I feel sick.

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[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Mm, it was like that in Japan too, before then.

[It's cold, and the blizzard wasn't the greatest way to be introduced to snow here, but Hikari finds it pretty regardless.]

Maybe we'll see other seasons, as they used to be.

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[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

Hey, wouldn't that mean we're not on Earth anymore?

_{[That's a sobering thought. Maybe this is some sort of weird afterlife.]}

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[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess that would be true... I can't even imagine Earth having anywhere like this on it, or there even being magic.

[Thinking about it is sobering, and it brings Hikari out of her wondering about any possibilities having seasons would mean. She's silent for a moment as she looks steadily in front of her.]

There are people here who don't know what the Second Impact is. Someone even told me that nothing happened like that in her world in 2000.

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[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

What?

_{[There's a sharp intake of breath from Asuka and she stares at Hikari, eye wide in surprise. Second Impact was the defining event of her world. It had shaped her life. It had driven her for most of her life. She couldn't imagine a world where it simply hadn't happened.]}

How can that-? How does something like just not happen?

_{[She sighs, rubbing her hand over her face.]}

This place is too weird.

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[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

I- I honestly don't know how that wouldn't happen, but if something like magic can exist here in the first place-

[Hikari trails off, thinking for a second about how Yukari told her there was something she was missing about the Second Impact. She shakes the thought off quickly.]

That's something we can both agree on, Asuka.