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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...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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[pactum.livejournal.com]

Ah... not really. I can't remember it ever raining here. It snowed once, though.

At least you're calm about all of this. I fell on my face when I first got here... [Emil shrugs and offers a little smile.] This is the Astral Plane. I'm not sure why they call it that, but basically this world is a different one than... um, whatever one you're from. Everyone here's from a different world, pretty much. You can go back home just by thinking about it.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[It IS pretty sad that he's this calm about being whisked away to some other dimension or whatever the hell it is. Oh well.]

So...what, this is space? Outer space?

[pactum.livejournal.com]

[He shakes his head.]

It's just... a place. It's like a big box with... um... a machine under it. Sometimes weird things happen on the Plane, or to the people who come here. Generally it's because of the Twins who run the shop. They're not good people, even though they can do nice things sometimes.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

A box with a machine under it. [Cloud folds his arms.] It's not a hologram, is it?

[pactum.livejournal.com]

A... what?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

A hologram. [Cloud gestures and it's not useful at all.]

It's uh...fake. Not real. Uses light and other stuff to make a fake world around you.

[pactum.livejournal.com]

Oh... huh. Sounds like the stuff we saw in the ranch.

[He glances around the Plane, thinking.] It's sort of like that, I guess. But everyone here is real, and so are the buildings and stuff. Anyone can bring anything with them when they step onto the Plane, though it takes a little more concentration.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud ducks his head and pinches the bridge of his nose.]

...no offense, but this all sounds completely crazy.

[pactum.livejournal.com]

[He laughs a little, and offers an awkward smile.]

I'm sorry. I don't think there's any way to explain it without sounding crazy.