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[ Astral Plane, you can has a Setzer. The gambler has popped up, hands in the pockets of his long jacket. He stares up at the stars above him, then down at the stars below him. He fishes a pack of cigarettes from his breast pocket, and a pack of matches from another pocket, lights up, and goes back to patiently looking at the stars. ]

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[Is wandering by when he notices the new guy staring at the stars. Smiles to himself.]

They're beautiful, aren't they?

Nothing prettier than an open sky, day or night.

[ He smirks a little, looking down. ] Nothing weirder than standing in the middle of it, though.

Very true. I've missed it, myslf.

[Chuckles.] You're handling it better than most people. You get used to it pretty quickly, though.

Yet another...

No open skies where you're from? [ Setzer considers him a moment, wondering if he's from Zozo. ] That's a damn shame.

Guess you could say I'm at home in the sky. A little more used to having a deck under my feet than more sky, though.

Part of a group, am I? [ takes a drag ] Must be a popular place.

[She'd ignore him if not for the smoke and the smell. Yuzuriha glares at the offending smoke.]

Would you put that out?

Unfortunately so.

I don't think I would. [ Back to puffing away and stargazing. ]

If this sky keeps going, I don't see why it wouldn't be. [ He stuffs his hands in his pockets. ] Could use a bit of a breeze, though.

It pollutes your body.

[Waves her hand at the smoke that drifts without guidance of any breeze.] The air as well.

It may be endless here, but when you return home, you'll find yourself bound and restricted to the area which you call home.

[Smile fades a little.] Not really. I'm in a city right now, plus the stars where I'm from are all fake.

A deck? You mean like some sort of ship?

Fake stars, hmm? Didn't know you could make fake ones.

Airship. Definitely not regular ships. If it doesn't fly, I'm not interested.

[ Setzer snorts. ] Nothing restricts me. Not with my wings.

Please, by all means, try.

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So it does. [ He smirks. ] I didn't think a person standing in the middle of a bunch of stars would really care.

Maybe I will. [ Shrug. ] After I'm done counting stars.

Your body is yours to pollute, this plane is shared.

We didn't exactly make them.

Huh. I've never heard about airships, outside of science-fiction anyway. But that's really interesting. Are you some sort of captain, then?

Afraid I'm not following what you're saying, then.

[ Who hasn't heard of an airship before? Setzer's starting to clue in that there's something very wrong here. ] Pilot. Captains sail the sea. Where are you from, anyway? I was thinking Zozo, but I'm starting to think I'm wrong.

Then you may be here awhile, sir. There are more here than I can name and the constellations are scattered.

[ Eyeroll, he snubs out his cigarette. He'll have another once she's left. ]

I can see that. Getting anywhere around here would be confusing, with a map like this over your head.

[Yuzuriha blinks at him, she's actually surprised he listened so it takes her a while to respond.]

...thank you.

It's...well, it's complicated. These two places, the Gates, appeared ten years ago. At the same time that they appeared all of the true stars were replaced with fake ones.

I'm from Japan. Actually, I doubt I'm from your world--everyone here seems to be from a different world entirely.

What are they Gates to? Other than fake star factories.

Worlds. That's different. [ Done with his cigarette, Setzer grinds it into a silk kerchief and stashes it in a pocket. ] I take it your world didn't go through Kefka, then? Insane clown with the powers of a god?

[ He shrugs. ] I've got other places to smoke. Now, you start telling me I can't on my ship, and there might be trouble.

You grow used to it. It's quite hard to get lost here.

[Smirks a little.] They don't...really lead anywhere. They're just places. Realms where physics don't matter that tend to kill people who try to enter them; or just drive them insane. Hell's Gate is the only one left now. Heaven's Gate disappeared five years ago, along with South...well, a continent.

Clown...? Um...no, I think I would have noticed that.

Phew. Sounds troublesome. [ At least it's not my world. ]

Trust me, you would have. He ruled the w-- my world for a good year.

Of course, soon as the world, well, my world gets rearranged, something else to add to the pile. Ha! Bring it on.

Been here long?

Courageous, are you?

Five months, almost.

Heh, that's one way of putting it.

Wow...that sounds...well, I suppose "rough" is an understatement.

Life's more interesting with a little risk involved.

The sky ever change here, or is it always night?

Nothing like a deranged clown to make a couple years of your life a living hell. Things are at least better now. I was just thinking about how nice and peaceful things have gotten when I wound up here.

No clue what this place is, but it's got perfect timing.

Well, there's that, then. The, uh, clown was defeated, then?

Oh, well it's called the Astral Plane. It's a crossroads between worlds, you could say. Realities, really. The whole thing is an experiment run by the Twins and Ms. Sault.

Ah, sorry! I never introduced myself. I'm Li Shengshun. And you are?

Yeah, we knocked him off his tower. Literally. [ Chuckle. ]

Like I said before, different. So long as these twins and this Ms. Sault aren't doing anything the Empire did...

[ Setzer offers a hand. ] Setzer Gabbiani. Good to meet you, Li.

[Raises an eyebrow but doesn't comment.]

Well, I'm not sure about the Empire, but they've messed around with us before. They released a bunch of monsters before I came here. And they switched a bunch of us into other people's realities. The things they do usually end up being dangerous.

[Smiles and shakes his hand.] Nice to meet you too, Mr. Gabbiani.

Danger's one thing when you're willing, it's another thing when it's forced on you. They don't sound much better than the Empire and their Magitek experiments. Anyone tried to rough them up a bit yet?

[Grimly,] People have tried, I think. I don't think anyone's really been successful. It seems they have full control over our lives and realities.

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I suppose.

The plane never changes.

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