Flight 001

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

[All is quiet on the western front Plane. But then... Is that a dark-haired girl flying into the Plane at breakneck speeds? Yes, yes it is. Soon enough though, she lands, screeching to a halt. Small wisps of smoke come from between her feet and the ground as she smirks.]

How d'ya like them apples, Tink? Beat you again!

[Her grin soon melts into confusion as she realizes she's not on campus anymore, looking around. Stamping out the smoke on her sneakers, she hooks her thumbs in her belt loops and looks around.]

This is definitely not a dream, right?

[After a moment, the girl pinches her arm, wincing, then blinks. No change at all.]

Okay then... Myself and my confused sense of direction would like to know how we got here, please! Last I checked, there's no hidden space-time pockets on this campus. Also, if this is a prank, I swear, you are so dead.

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[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

It's not a dream.

[The speaker is a small, serious boy in large glasses.]

Do you remember a dark-haired woman, Sault-san, telling you about the Astral Plane?

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

[Oh hey, it's a small... kid... thing.]

Um, I remember talking to someone and thinking she was nuts...

[stillshinigami]

[He's come to expect things to be strange and difficult to believe around here, but he never thought he'd see a girl buzzing around in the air like that. He mighta laughed if it didn't happen so quickly. He turns his eyes down to her as she landed and listened to her speak aloud.]

Guess you're new around here.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

Around... where?

[Kind of eying you; you are not a classmate.]

[stillshinigami]

[A bit old for that high school business. At best, a senior. Maybe in college?]

This place. It's a multi dimensional melting pot. They call it the Astral Plane.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

[That gets a brow raise.]

O-kaaaay, what are you on, and where can I get some of it?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I'd better give you the pamplets. Here.

[Conan holds up two pamphlets. (http://community.livejournal.com/shifted_ooc/260777.html)]

They won't tell you everything about this place, but they're a good point of reference while you work things out for yourself.

((ooc: I am having big trouble getting through to lj so if I disappear after this, sorry! I don't know if it's our connection or lj, but either way, my apologies.))

[stillshinigami]

If you don't want to believe me, that's fine.

But you know, fair warning, it's not at all kind to the ignorant.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

[Takes them both and looks them over. The more well-written one makes her nod in understanding, while the other makes her burst out laughing. Ah, she needed that.]

So, an Astral Plane, huh? This beats the hell out of physics.

[She pockets the brochures and nods down at him.]

Thanks, kid. What's your name, anyway?

((OOC: It's LJ. Don't worry about it.))

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

[Vidia scowls, crossing her arms over her chest.]

Then how about you stop spouting random things and explain what the hell is going on?

[stillshinigami]

[Duo's smirk grows into a grin.]

I already told you, or are you completely incapable of seeing for yourself? [He gestures around to the expanse of space.]

This place is the place where alternate universes converge.

[hells-scythe.livejournal.com]

[She whistles. You have impressed her.]

You gotta be new here too.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

Really? How's that possible?

[She looks around.]

I thought one of the illusion-talents was messing with me, to be honest.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

That seems to be the general consensus. Wherever 'here' is.

[stillshinigami]

Heh. What school? Hogwarts?

[He shakes his head, hands going to his pockets.]

I don't know how it's possible, I'm not a physicist. Big Bang, singularities, extra dimensional realms... It gets a little tricky but think about multiverse theory and you go from there, I guess.

[hells-scythe.livejournal.com]

Apparently this place is called the Astral Plane. I just got here yesterday myself.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

Oh, please. I attend Hollow Tree Institute for the Gifted.

Eh, whatever. Sure as hell beats sitting in class.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

Newbies all around. That's comforting.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I guess that's one way to look at it! Where are you a student?

I'm Edogawa Conan, class 1-B Teitan Elementary!

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

Conan? Like, the Barbarian? Or Conan Doyle?

[She shrugs; not that she can talk. Smiling now.]

Vidia Faryn, Third Former, Hollow Tree Institute for the Gifted.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Conan Doyle! I'm named after him.

Hollow Tree Institute ... That's an interesting name for a school. Does gifted mean 'flying'?

[stillshinigami]

[Same thing to him.] Explains why you can fly.

Heh. Guess you could always just learn independently.

[hells-scythe.livejournal.com]

You're one of us too. You'll eventually get some info from someone.

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

It can mean a lot of things, but flying happens to be my talent.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who can fly where I'm from! Is it a secret?

[speedofsarcasm.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently not anymore, seeing as I flew in here. This... could be bad.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

You're worried we'd tell? We can't get to your world without your help, so that's not going to happen! Well--

The people who made this place might be able to do that.