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[ A: While this maiden has been here all day, she hasn't thought to venture out until the sun had set. There's so much she's learned already. For example, with how short the days were and the chill in the air - that meant winter was coming in quick. With the strange salt in the breeze she was able to determine that she was on an island of some sort near an ocean. She might stand out when it comes to the other civilians as she wore sheets pulled from the hotel bed as a makeshift cloak, tightening it closer in between her petite fists.

Then it happens. Midnight strikes and the few individuals who littered the streets with brightly colored bags of green and red in their hands appear in strange coffins, leaving her to be the only one visible in her path. With the snowfall, her vision is obscured slightly.. but not enough to veil the large figure approaching rapidly. A normal woman might be frightened enough to flee, but this one in particular is Irish. Kicking up snow into it's face, she feints to the side in an attempt to run around it. Naturally, she gets knocked over by the Visceral Maya, sliding into a thicker bank of snow along the street. A shame she doesn't have a phone to call for help or anything of the sort.

B: After she's been rescued by ~~insert amount of threads of people who choose to save her here~~, Gráinne will be entering whatever bar happens to be open past midnight with soaking wet sheets in her hand. Her own attire is fairly damp, but she doesn't seem to be concerned with it. ]

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Dollars?

Paper money.

[He pulls one out of his pocket and shows it to her.]

[ Can she just pluck it right from his hand? What are manners... ]

A strange world this one has become. Paper having value..? Any fool can craft paper.

Paper has value to get stuff because we've all agreed that we should be able to use this specific kind of paper to get other stuff, and because it's really really hard to make this kind of paper unless you're the government.

And do other countries believe this paper they've created to be of value?

Yep.

The world has gone mad.

It works, though.

I can't imagine how. I would find no value in this.

But you find value in the beer, right? And if you gave me enough of these to cover it you'd get more beer.

I can understand that much.. I just don't understand. What happened to gold and gems being part of the common exchange?

We don't have enough gold and gems for that. They're worth a lot of money because they're rare now.

They are..?

And that is why people use this paper instead?

That's pretty much it.

That seems so depressing. Where did they all go?

Maybe it's just because there are way too many people now for all of us to have gold and gems.

Way too many people now?

How many?

Six billion people in the world. Not a lot of gold in comparison.

Six billion?

At last counting it was at nearly seven billion.

That is.. a lot of people.

[ A pause. ]

The chances of two knowing each other in the past arriving in the same place is nothing short of a miracle.

I don't know about that considering all the other weird stuff that happens here. But I'm happy for you.

Nearly seven billion people in the world and yet, we reunite in the same city? It's a miracle.

Haven't you experienced it for yourself?

I met my most important person here again, too. You're right, it's a miracle.

I wonder if Prospero means to be prosperous with miracles. It seems this place is excellent at it.

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