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[The day after her unfortunate introduction to Prospero in the middle of the Dark Hour, Asuka quite guiltlessly slept until 11 am and, nonplussed to find herself still in this weird town, set about assessing her situation and getting stock of her available resources - to say nothing of washing up after her first real hand-to-hand combat experience. Once all that's done, however, she begins on her first and most obvious asset - the phone.]

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Okay.

So.

I'm in 'Prospero', in the US. I have no idea how I got here, let alone who managed to spirit me off a verdamnt aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific. Well, as long as I'm in Prospero, 'if this were played upon a stage, I must condemn it a most improbably fiction'.

Before any idiots ask, I'm referencing Shakespeare, okay?

Anyway, someone had better explain to me what's going on here. I have very important business in Japan, which, by the way, the fate of the world depends on, and my employers are not going to be happy about this involuntary leave here. And this is without even going into whatever the hell that trip was last night. Seriously, Analytical Psychiatry is bunk anyway.

[Finally, she brandishes her letter]

And one last thing - how and why am I enrolled in high school here?!

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Then I'll fight perfectly.

[Devola chuckles. This girl's definitely got chutzpah, and that's... not quite inspiring, but uplifting in a situation like this, really.]

I'll hold you to that then, miss...?

Did I seriously not introduce myself? Me? Wow.

I'm Asuka Langley Soryu, pilot of Evangelion Unit 02!

Once I find it again anyway.

Hey, you're not the only one forgetting introductions. Everyone seems a bit slow to do so, I've noticed.

...Like me, in retrospect. I'm Devola.

I can keep an eye out for your Evangelion, if you want. What's it look like?

Over 40 meters tall, bright red, looks like a four-eyed armored guy. You can't miss it.

...I'm not expecting it just to show up here, you know.

"Hard not to keep an eye out for it", gotcha.

...Yeah. I wouldn't expect anything familiar to show up, honestly. Still, it'd be a pleasant surprise, wouldn't it?

Man...I do miss my Eva.

We've all got something or someone we miss, something we still need to do, or just plain something we don't have here. Incentive to find out what the deal is, I guess...

I bet we can go home if we kill all those masked things. Somewhere to start, at least.

Mm, considering it's the second-weirdest thing here you're probably on to something. At the very least, there's got to be some kind of relation.