tvk | [001. Action / Voice] // I have a feeling we're not in the desert any longer.

[It has taken Natalia approximately twenty minutes to confirm that she has, after all, been left behind. "Separated" is perhaps a little easier to accept, what with the foreign city she has unexpectedly found herself in - this one inhabited, not merely ruins. The temperature has also plummeted from uncomfortably hot and dry to cold and blustery. (Winter in the Zao Desert?)]

[She stands in the shadow of a building, out of the wind, trying to work the strange fonmachine (or whatever it might be, Guy isn't around to ask) into submission. If one of the others dropped it, perhaps she can figure out where they might have disappeared to. If the Six God-Generals lost it, then perhaps it will reveal to her why Fon Master Ion has been kidnapped and where their closest stronghold might be. Where to go.]

[The results of this struggle are what finally come across the network.] Beep! Beep! Bnnn...! BEEEEP!!

Oh, honestly! If you're going to be this difficult, at the very least you might-- [There's a muffled sound. A sneeze.]

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Indeed. The technology here never ceases to amaze me.

Please, you needn't worry about repaying me for anything; I simply aided you because I wanted to, nothing more. Nevertheless, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Natalia. You may call me Ruler.

Does nothing such as these exist in your homeland, Ruler? [She indicates the phone.]

[An unusual name. Natalia wonders if perhaps it's a title of some sort and not a name at all.]

Yes, I realize that, but perhaps I simply feel that I should return one kindness with another. Regardless, it is a pleasure.

[Natalia wouldn't be too far off the mark in thinking that, but Ruler had worked for her so far while being in this city; she saw no reason to change now.] Things such as these did exist, but... I was not terribly familiar with them, nor did I have much reason to use them.

Well, if that's how you feel, I suppose it would be rude of me to suggest you do otherwise.

I suspect we're much the same, then. Though, I wonder what else the people of this city have thought of... [She'll have to take a good look around later.]

Of course. [Simply stated, but there's a smile to show Natalia isn't offended.] It's in times like these that we must help one another whenever we are able to do so.

This place certainly has its fair share of wonders. I'm sure you'll be able to find a number of interesting things.

[She nods enthusiastically.] Yes, I must agree! It would simply be a shame to not work together in a situation such as this.

I'll certainly keep an eye out for them. I haven't seen a city with so many "gadgets" in it since the last time I visited Belkend.

Yes, precisely so! And that is why I had to insist.

Belkend? A city from your world, I presume?

I can only hope that most other people would come to such a sensible conclusion as well.

We can only hope.

Yes, it's a city that's full of all different sorts of fon machinery. There's a research center there as well.

Fon machinery? Was the technology in your world much like this one?

Cable cars, elevators, and other such things.

As far as I have been able to tell, they're quite different from one another. The architecture has a very different appearance as well.

Hmm, they sound like things that exist in this world as well though. However, I suppose when it comes to architecture, it will always be different depending on the person designing and such.

Yes... Perhaps there are machines here which function in a similar way to the fon machines we have at home. It could be that only their names and designs are different.

Even multiple civilizations must have some of the same problems to overcome.

Yes, that is certainly true... Even if the methods are somewhat different, people will likely have faced the same kinds of problems. It is only natural then that there are such similarities even between things such as different worlds.

[001. Action / Voice] // I have a feeling we're not in the desert any longer.

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