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Oh, you're just the same as I used to know

Who; Arkady + OTA
What; Open intro log fun times!
Where; Residence area and into building Blue, harbor, and market!
When; Starting on the 3rd through the 5th
Warnings; Mentions of blood and nothing else I can think of at the moment.

A. What Can You See-Harbor

There was someone Arkady needed to find. Someone important to her that she hoped beyond anything would be here too. She'd wasted absolutely no time exploring this new place. Teleportation made it easy to get around swiftly but there was an easier way to look and see things. The harbor seemed like a good choice for her experiment. The dock with the dilapidated ships seemed especially promising as a location that she might not be disturbed. Who else would choose to come out to a place that only held broken pieces? They were things she had always been drawn to though. Maybe broken things spoke to broken people in ways that only they understood. Or maybe she just liked the promise of not being noticed.

There was a large bottle of vodka next to her as she dangled her feet off the dock and looked down at the water. A part of her had grown truly sick of water. Back home it felt like there was a never ending supply of water that just kept closing in on them as the days went by. It was their fault of course, so could she really complain? No. The only thing she ever complained about was the fact that she couldn't fix it all by herself.

"I have a world of my own to fix," she said to nobody in particular with a slight edge of anger to her voice. "And other people you took me from that need me." There was frustration in her voice that she didn't usually let on, but she thought it was safe here to speak freely to the open waters. She heaved a sigh, took a drink from the bottle, and then her eyes began to glow a bright white and her body went as still as a statue. She stayed that way for longer than she should have looking for people she needed to find and also for a layout of this place. The more she knew, the easier could get around.

Eventually she hit something wrong though, something that caused her to jerk back to herself and nearly fall off the dock.

"Fuck," she shouted as she gasped for air and her eyes returned to purple. "Oh no. No, no, no. Not here too." She was going to need more vodka for this.

B. Find Your Color

After her exploration she'd returned to the residence building that she'd initially been taken to and shifted through the satchel to find the key. There was still a part of her bothered by what she'd seen, but now there were other people around and that meant an act had to be put on. Nobody else needed to be bothered by what was going on. Especially not if they had just arrived like her. Everyone was going to be confused enough without adding more to it.

"A-09, blue building! I like blue!" If it occurred to her that it was odd to be speaking aloud to herself she didn't let it show in the slightest. Instead the bald young woman just pulled her jacket up over her shoulders, making the word FreakAngels on the back much more visible. Unfortunately her readjustment of her jacket also made the blood stains on it much more prominent. In fact, if one were to get close enough they might notice that she's got what looks like dried blood stains on her neck. The way she tugged the jacket around her made it fairly obvious she was aware of the fact that the stains could be seen and really didn't want anyone else to be.

Dangling from the jacket there were a variety of doll parts that jingled as she walked up to the blue building and just looked it over for a few seconds. She swayed back and forth with her hands clasped behind her back as she looked at the building as if she were studying it for reasons only known to her. After a few solid minutes of just staring with bright white eyes at the building she disappeared for just a second. When she reappeared it was directly in front of the blue building. Where precisely she went during her brief disappearance was anyone's guess (the roof of the building) but she acted like it never happened as she opened the door and stepped inside.

"Hello! Is anyone else here?" she said loudly in a bight and cheerful voice as she walked into the common room. She was definitely curious about who her building-mates would be in this place. Though, there was one person in particular she was very focused on finding.

C. Lets Go Shopping

After another day of exploration Arkady made her way to the open-air market with a considerable amount of enthusiasm. Her jacket rested on her elbows revealing her pale and frail looking shoulder. She had on a see-through skirt made of a patchwork of different colors and she walked barefoot without any sort of care. There was a small smile on her face as she moved around the stalls excitedly looking at just how much there was.

"There's so much! This is wonderful!" Much better than the place she'd been before. It had plenty of things to buy but it hadn't been like this. This was like home except so much better. There was the same familiar feel as the market back home but there was so much to be found. For years there had been a shortage of everything. Fresh food was difficult to find and relied greatly on what the FreakAngels could actually grow themselves. Spices were no longer a luxury. In fact, luxuries in general were a thing of the past.

This however, it was something magical and exciting. Not only that but there people here. Real people. Not fake people like there had been in the other city. Every now and then her eyes would glow bright white and then she'd smile brightly as she touched the minds of actual people. Real people with real thoughts that didn't give her a headache.

Eventually, she stopped in front of a fishmonger and just took in the smells. "There's so much here! I don't even know what to get..."

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Terra was standing in front of his door as if he wasn't sure whether or not to actually use the key in his hand. This had been quite the quest already and that gnome was really quick. He tried to get more information out because he hadn't expected to see such a creature in the realm of darkness. Was this whole world trapped there too? And what had happened to Aqua and Ven? They were supposed to be looking for Sora together.

A sigh escaped him as serious blue eyes continued to ponder the door. He didn't have to open this one with his keyblade but he was ready in case some heartless or unversed came rushing through it at him. And as he finally decided to put the key into the lock, he heard a feminine voice. Thinking it was Aqua for a moment, Terra turned to see a woman with a hood up over her head.

Taking the key out of the lock and putting it into his hakama, the keyblade wielder decided that keys and locks could wait. This was the first person he'd seen in this building with him and they might have information on the world or on his friends.

"I'm..here." Terra called, slowly going towards the hooded person. He had no idea where 'here' was though.

"Hello," Arkady responded to boy with a warm smile. She tried to meet his eyes with her own violet ones. Eyes were the window to the soul after all and she always wanted to seem as welcoming as possible. If they were all trapped here together, well, it seemed best to try to get off on the right foot. Especially since the young man in front of her seemed just as confused as she was.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one here." She laughed lightly at her own comment. "Sent here I mean. Obviously I'm not the only one here-here. Is this the building the satchel gave you?" There was a distinctly hopeful quality to her tone. Even when she'd lived alone back in her own world she hadn't really been alone. The other FreakAngels had always been there just a blink away. Or a thought away. They were always connected. Some distance had been pushed between them all after her accident, but they were still technically there. Alone had never been a worry until she'd been taken to the first strange city. That dystopian place had been the first time in Arkady's life that she had been truly alone. Nothing had prepared her for quite how awful that loneliness had felt.

"I'm Arkady."

He wasn't sure what to make of the girl though he was comforted by the smile. It reminded him of Aqua who smiled at people in greeting. But he nodded to the hello. "You're not the only one here." That was obvious, but he was trying to be polite and comforting in his own way.

He shook his brown haired head to the satchel question. "I'm not sure why a bag colour dictates where we live. Or why we're even here." And he was using the term living loosely because he had no intention of staying if he could get out of here. He was supposed to be traveling with Ven and Aqua right now in search of Sora, the boy the Lingering Will protected against Xehanort. And he'd already spent ten years in the darkness as a guardian..so he wasn't exactly thrilled to be separated from his friends yet again.

Still this boy had been raised by Master Eraqus with manners, so he nodded. "Terra."

"That's good. It's a big building to be alone in." There were lots of other people around but they were people from here. Or at least that was her best thought. Locals maybe? They could be something else though. In the other place she was in the locals had ended up just being other people that had been brought in and changed. As Arkady's mind wandered off to those thoughts her expression darkened for a split second before she forced her smile back.

"I like the color though!" She said with a slightly forced cheer to her voice. She tilts her head to the right and then the left again. "Do you not believe the reasons they said?" She wasn't quite sure if she did herself. It might just have been her paranoia from the other place she'd been speaking but she wasn't sure. It seemed too similar to other lies she'd been told. Besides, she had her own world to fix.

"It's nice to meet you Terra!"

Terra had been in bigger places such as entire worlds alone..well not alone alone but without his friends alone. So he just politely stood there while Arkady went on about liking the colour. Blue..reminded him personally of Aqua, so it wasn't a bad association as far as blue went.

At her question there was a small look. "Something about their world. That there was a calamity and we needed to rebuild it." He had no idea how to go about doing that and they were told something about they needed to just be. What kind of a task was that? It was so open ended that it might be impossible to figure out exactly what needed to be done in order to help out.

The keyblade wielder had no problem with helping, that's what they did after all, go help out other worlds in trouble. But this had no finite ending and it was troubling. And of course Terra had somewhere he needed to be. But he tried something of a smile for the girl's sake.

"It's nice to meet you too. It makes me wonder though..how long we'll be here."

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"But do you believe it's that simple?" She asked curiously. It seemed like he was willing to just go with the explanation they were given, which she still wasn't fully sure of accepting herself. "What was the calamity though, I wonder?" The tone of her voice was quiet and it was clearly a question she was pondering more to herself than him. There had to be more to the calamity than they were being told. A lot more.

She frowned at his last comment though. "That's a good point. They didn't offer any sort of promise when they'd let us go." At the place she was before the Head had told them when they'd get to go home. That'd been a lie of course but it was more than they'd gotten here. "Maybe they don't even know how to get us back."

If there was one thing that hadn't really changed about Terra in all his years was that he still had his 'father's' (aka Master Eraqus) teachings inside of him. People deserved respect and to be trusted, that was a fact so he was going to go with that principle to start. And then Arkady reminded him yet again of Aqua, he bit back a smile. "It's hard to say, but there's no real reason to keep us here if we get this place back in shape." Just how long that would take would be a different matter though.

He shrugged at the calamity question. "If that lady who welcomed us is around..she might have some answers." It was going to be his first attempt at getting answers. But then they were back to the going home part. Here Terra was more than sure that everyone who was taken here had somewhere more important to be.

"They might not, but that doesn't stop us from looking and finding our own answers." Says the man who's been to multiple worlds and always found a way out.

"Reasons are funny things, sweets, sometimes only the people with them know. And then sometimes nobody knows because there are none." In her mind that was what they needed to figure out. Was the reason really just to fix their world? Or was there something more to it? The place she'd been taken to before had given them a reason and a promise of return in a year. None of it had ended up being true in the slightest. Which just left her to wonder if this would be the same situation

"We could ask her if we see her again. But will she answer honestly?" She really wasn't sure about the answer to that. "Maybe I'm a bit too paranoid anymore. I came from a bad place before here. And a bad place before there. Both of those places need fixing too. But I'm here now so I can't fix there." That didn't mean she wouldn't worry about it though. She really couldn't help it.

"You're right though! We can find our own answers. I'm good at finding things."

Terra was about to say something in reply when the words 'sweets' came across his ears. He gave his companion an odd sort of blank look at not understanding why she'd say something so weird. But maybe that was just the way people talked back where Arkady came from.

"I really don't see why she wouldn't." This was said with a shake of the head. After all even people who turned out to be bad usually revealed their plans to him such as Hook had. Capture the pixie Tinkerbell and that meant that it was supposed to have Peter Pan in shambles. Well the pirate captain had captured her, but Terra had in turn set her free.

All he could do was nod to the part about coming from a bad place. Terra himself had been a guardian to Xehanort and had been in darkness for ten years, so he knew all about that kind of stuff and there was a slight smile at her words of finding things. "I'm going to take a look around after I take a look at my room and see what needs of taken care of so badly. Maybe the sooner we find out and fix it, the sooner we see if they keep their word and let us go home."

Side quests, Terra knew all about those.

"There could be lots of reasons for not telling the truth. They haven't seemed very upfront about the conditions of us being here after all." Arkady was slightly frustrated that they hadn't given them any sort of time frame for being returned to their homes. Something about that bothered her a great deal. Maybe it was just the fact that they hadn't even mentioned sending them back home at all. That just made her wonder if they would. Or if they even could.

"Do you think they'll have a list of things they want fixed? That would make it easier." Her tone shifted to be something very light and airy there, clearly indicated she was just joking. Though it actually would be nice if they had specifics of what they wanted them to do. "If we all look, I'm sure we'll be able to figure out something. Eventually." At least she hoped so. It was hard to stay positive in a situation like this.

Arkady's words had Terra look down at the ground. It reminded him of his own mistakes, getting half of the information and forming his own conclusions, as he did with Hook. But her question about fixing things had him nod. "I'm not sure..but I can ask." And honestly if it was just a matter of hunting some monsters down or something that he could take care of very easily.

But then he realized she was only joking and he shook his head. "The sooner we start, the sooner we get it figured out and go home."

"If you do ask, let me know," she responded with a chuckle. Who knows, maybe the Aspects would give them a list of things they wanted them to do. That sure would make the entire situation so much easier. It worried her that they seemed so content with being vague about everything.

"Sooner the better. I'd like to go home. It's been a long time since I've been back now."

Terra nodded. "I will." He was going to ask because he had to get back to Aqua and Ven and look for Sora. He'd been away from his friends for ten years and he wanted to get back as soon as possible.

Blu eyes looked up at Arkady as he nodded with the smallest smile. "Me too, so it'll be nice to get back."

"Then we'll just have to do our best to make sure we do our best so we can go home quickly!" she said with a clap o f her hands and an enthusiastic smile.

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