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Ein

[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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More like they've been covering for me since I was in the wrong part of the world. I was, in fact, on my way to Japan to settle things once and for all when I somehow wound up here.

I'm sure things won't go too far south while you're gone. It's not like you three are staving off some kind of monster invasion or anything, after all.

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What's with that look?

Am I the only person stuck here who knows about the giant apocalyptic alien things that are attacking Earth?

[She scratches at her chin thoughtfully.] Well, as far as I know they aren't giant, don't think they're alien, and the apocalypse happened a long time ago anyway...

...you lost me.

...Ah! Sorry, don't worry about it. Just spouting nonsense I guess.

What I meant to say is whatever you're talking about is news to me. Probably will be to a lot of other people here too, unless it's someone you already know.

Why do you say that?

Erm, gimmie a second to figure out how to word it properly...

...

Alright. "Giant apocalyptic aliens" are kinda the order of the day as far as you're concerned, right? No matter how I wrack my memory, I can't remember a single time things were anything like that, for me.

On top of that, when I talked about what I'm used to seeing on a daily basis to people, all I got were blank stares in return.

...In short, think of the 'most improbable fiction'; that might be what's going on here.

So, wait.

Are you trying to tell me this is some kind of alternate reality where Angels aren't attacking and trying to wipe out humanity? It'd explain why the northeastern US still has barrier islands anyway.

Pretty much. Guess that "parallel worlds theory" I skimmed over a while back wasn't total bunk, huh?

And I always thought my professors were making stuff up when they started blathering about the Dirac Sea...

...still, this is pretty unbelievable even for me. How do I know you're not lying, or have false memories, huh?

Hmm... Well, motive's about the only thing I can think of. There's no reason for me to whip up such an elaborate lie and tell it to someone I don't even know. That's rude, unseemly, and just plain mean.

And if I've got false memories, even I wouldn't know. We'd both be better off making sure I'm not full of shit. Me so I stop looking like an idiot, and you to see whether or not you really do need to hightail it back to... Japan, was it?

That's where I got assigned after there were three attacks in a row there...

...but if what you're saying is true, then I'd need to hightail it to Japan in another dimension.

Three? Persistent little pests, aren't they.

That sums it up pretty well, actually. I'm trying not to worry about what's going on "back home", for lack of a better euphemism, myself. Who knows how time flows here compared to elsewhere.

So what you're really saying is you think we're in Narnia.

Whatever you're referencing is completely lost on me, miss.

... So, yes! Narnia is in fact where we are. It is here.

Heh. Well you're either insane or have a great pokerface. We'll call this a working theory then!

Pokerface? Never thought about that... Maybe I should go to that casino and test it out...

[Well, she's messing with you a bit now at least.]

This place has a casino? It seemed a little white-bread traditional American values for that.

Then again it also has horrible monsters every night.

It's either a casino or a needlessly gaudy office building. Haven't gone inside yet, so the mystery makes it even more enticing.

Guessing the blobby-masky-thingies aren't quite traditionally American, then.

I still think they look a lot like the Third Angel did before the rookie went ape-crap on it...suspiciously so.

Hm. Do you mean the amorphous, uniformly-colored goo part of 'em? Or is it the creepy mask they all seem to hide somewhere?

Both. It only went all amorphous for a few seconds before exploding, though.

[Yeah, Asuka only spent a couple of weeks solid studying that after action report. Friggin' first Angel combat in history and she was on the other side of the friggin' world.]

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