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...what is this? Bugenhagen's machine...?

[Cloud frowns, and anxiously tugs at his gloves to tighten them just in case. He takes a brief walk to explore the area, though his eyes are drawn to the sky several times and he can't seem to concentrate. As a sort of nervous habit -oh Holy help him, if he's stuck in his own head again- Cloud began to mutter to himself as he started for a nearby bar.]

I was in Midgar...went to sleep in a tent outside. Tifa was there, Cid was there. Barret's in Kalm with Marlene. There was that building...

[Cloud pauses; that building. He'd written it off as exhaustion, residual hallucinations. A memory that wasn't quite what it was supposed to be. But- Wait, he'd gone back inside. ...why had he done that?

He stops just as he passed through the door, a hand to his forehead and brow furrowed in confusion. Damn.]

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[Sweet Shiva, did he have "newbie" written on his forehead or something? Though at least there's people here. Cloud probably would've been a lot more frazzled if he'd poofed into some creepy ghost town.]

Yeah...guess it's pretty obvious. Do you have any idea what exactly is going on?

[Dino's just knows what that brand of confusion looks like] Well the short version is that we've been dragged here to be part of an experiment. What the experiment is for, we don't have a clue. You can return home anytime you want by just thinking about it but it's still connected to here. You come back the same way, just by thinking about it.

[Cloud immediately bristles at the mention of experiments. He folds his arms and shifts his weight defensively.]

So if I never think about coming back here again, I won't?

[Sighs and shoves his hands in his pockets] Technically yes. As long as you don't think about it, you can stay in your world. But, like I said, this place will still be connected to your world. That means your world will be affected by something this place does sooner or later and you'll end up being drawn back here anyway.

[His "world," huh? That's pretty weird.

Give him a second Dino, he's coming to a conclusion.]

What if I keep coming here? Will it leave everything else alone?

I wish it were that easy. No, even if you keep coming here there isn't a guarantee it won't touch anything else. But at least by coming here you can stay more aware of what's going on.

[Oh well Cloud doesn't like that at all.]

Great.

[And then he realizes how rude he's being and shakes his head.] I'm Cloud. Who're you?

I'm Dino. Don't worry, as odd as this place is, you'll actually start to get used to it after a while.

[That childish part of Cloud is stomping his foot and saying he doesn't want to get used to it, thank you, but Cloud ignores it. For now.]

Dino.

Uh...I guess you had your first day here a while ago, huh?

About two years ago. It's not always easy dealing with this place, but there are some good points to it too.

...what's been happening to your world since you showed up here?

[Cloud's not sure he buys this whole "separate worlds" thing considering it's kind of LUDICROUS, but maybe he's missing some terminology somewhere.]

If you get close to people here, parts of their world will start to pop up in your own. I just had a few shops switch around, but I know other people that have had greater changes.

Greater changes like what?

Like entire worlds being merged together. Although so far I've only heard of that happening when the worlds are similar to being with.

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