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[Harley's appearance on the Plane is in costume and she's just a bit startled. Well, more than a bit. Actually, she freezes up and just stares.]

Hey, who turned the day off?! [Harley looks around and tries to get a hold of her surroundings. Then she looks down when she realises the weird ceiling seems to be blending with the floor. She gives a little shriek and holds perfectly still.] ...I've heard of walkin' on air but this is pushin' it. [She slides a foot across the surface, tapping it a few times. At least it's solid. Good! She won't suddenly fall to her death.]

[A deep breath.] C'mon, Harl, keep it together. You're not crazy! Not...really. [A pause before she tugs on her hat points.] Aw, don't kid yourself. You're a regular space case! [She takes another breath. Juuuust breathe. Yeah.] Well, always wanted to be a star, right? Name up in lights. So this ain't so bad...yeah. That's right! Cheer up, girl. You might be trippin' but it sure is a nice fall.

[And so she decides to have fun with her delusions and just walk through space. Clearly this crazy trip will end of its own accord eventually.]

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Right-a-roonie! The sun is a star, just up close and personal!

Wow, but doesn't it go 'round the earth though? unless all the others suns are going around the earth...

[She starts laughing and pats Brigitta's head.] You're cute, kid, but that ain't how it goes. Even I know that!

[Brigitta shall now be shrinking a little and offering up a guilty smile ~~As opposed to cutting her hand off in normal life, so bloodthirsty~~] That's what Da taught me... Though I guess that he could be wrong, he has been before.

[She likes her hand! No cutting that off.] All right, tell ya what? I'll explain it! [And like a good clown, she pulls a few balls out from behind her back magically.] See these? They're the planets. And moi's head here is the beautiful sun.

[She starts to juggle, twisting each ball a little differently in an attempt to make them not follow each other exactly.] Planets go round and round and round the sun! Where will they stop? Heck if I know! But there they go! And the sun right here. [She smiles proudly in the center of the loop.] Get it?

[She won't until she's back to normal! And she'll just be staring for a good few minutes before nodding very slowly and tilting her head] Uh, I think so? Nothing goes around the earth, it's just the sun... And the other suns? Do they go 'round our sun?

...Where did you learn to do that?

[She catches the balls and tilts her head.] Well I guess the moon goes around the Earth. But uhhh. [Harley wrinkles her nose. She only learned so much in biology.] I don't think so. All those other stars and galaxies and whatever are just floatin' out there in the big black...space. Not really goin' around anything.

Oh yeah, that.

[Frown] Aw, that's kinda creepy... All alone out there, with nobody to visit them or to attract them.

[She never thought of it like that!] Huh, yeah, I guess it must be pretty lonely. Can't see your friends or lovers or anybody you care about, just nothin' but that big old cold space.

Yeah, all dark and wit the only lights so distant... It must be horrible for them, being so mighty and yet so alone.

[Crosses her arms.] Yeah, well, it's always the big guys that don't let ya see'em cry. But they're the ones that need to let loose the waterworks the most.

Say, kiddo, what's your name, anyway?

Yeah, I wonder if suns can cry, or if they even think about crying.

[Smile] Oh, I'm Brigitta, who are you?

I'd say they can't but I've seen strange stuff.

[A bow.] Harley Quinn! Pleased ta meetcha!

Really? How strange was this stuff?

[Grin] Pleased to meetcha too! You seem smart.

[She's practically preening.]

You bet your tush I am! And gee, I dunno, some of the strange stuff don't exactly count. But I saw hell, sorta! At least I think it was. Past couple of months have been crazy.

[She giggles slightly but it's a nice giggle, very 'I respect the smart person']

You've seen Hades? What was it like there? Is everything that they say about it true?

[She puts her hands on her hips.] Well, it was basically my worst nightmare repeated over and over. Then when I busted outta that joint, I met some other doomed souls and had to avoid these crazy bounty hunters. I made it back all right! I sorta missed my body but I got it right eventually. So when I say I've been through hell and back, it ain't just whistlin' dixie.

Ah, at least you got out though, which sounds like quite a big thing to manage what with the river and Cerberus and all that... It must've been terrifying, but at least it was a adventure.

Yeah, that's life, ain't it? Terrifyin' sometimes but boy, it's never dull.