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A Soldier and a smol pup

Angeal landed in a fountain and fortunately found an odd change of clothes in his new 'apartment' while his dried. And he did try his best to keep up with that gnome guy or whoever handed him the blue satchel and took off. But it scurried under some fallen tree trunks and even with his heightened senses and enhanced physical abilities, the First Class couldn't seem to keep up and it frustratingly disappeared out of sight.

Where this place was and why he was here wasn't answered. Why he was back from the Lifestream had gone unanswered. Everything about this place made absolute zero sense. He could remember picking Zack up from the battlefield, and bringing him to the Lifestream. And he even touched his own back. No Buster sword there, he'd given that to Zack who gave it to Cloud.

And then he wandered with his thoughts tumbling over each other eventually he came to the park and found a small wooden bench. So he sat down and tried to figure this new place out. He's not quite sure what is going on or why he's back from the Lifestream. Nothing looks familiar and as he continued to sit there, his ears picked up the sound of a small whine.

Standing up, the First Class started to look around and finally located the sound coming from a very small ball of fur.

Turning to someone nearby, he shook his head. "Does he belong to you?"

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"There seem to be plenty of animals here." Angeal observed as he folded his arms across his chest. There was a slight smile in his voice as he had spoken.

"Have you ever seen a chocobo?"

"I have seen them around," she agrees. "Our ores for the smithy are often brought by chocobo cart. They are strange, such large birds. ANd beautiful too!"

Perhaps she should invest in one. But are there ones big enough for her? A mystery.

Angeal smiled. "They're definitely large birds." And he tried to stay off of their backs. Helicopters and the like he could handle. But a living creature that could run like the wind or so he heard, that he wasn't too sure of.

"Glad to hear they're in use here though."

"They are in much use," she agreed with a nod. "Very useful creatures. Strange ones too. I have never known birds to be so large on Earth or the planets on which I was stationed."

Which did not mean they didn't exist. They clearly existed.

"Makes me wonder how they got pulled here too since chocobos are found on my world." It was puzzling and if they were here, he wondered what or who else was here. He was no stranger to technology and definitely would be looking closer at the tell phones to see if he could pick something up.

He knew of the local tavern in town, and it might be useful to sit there and try and gather some information there too by listening in on the conversations around him. Thanks to his enhanced hearing, Angeal figured he should be able to find out things pretty quickly.

If only the locals were all that useful for finding information form.

"Then you are familiar with them," she says, sounding pleased. "You might wish to go to the farm them. Meet a new animal friend."

He nodded. "I thought I heard something about that, but then again I wasn't double checking my information." Since Angeal had just arrived and someone was just telling him things but he'd been pretty disoriented and wasn't sure he'd heard correctly.

"Have you been there?"

"No," she admits with a shrug. "I am too large for the birds, and I do not leave the city much. I also do not mind the walking."

She was, after all, a soldier. Walking long distances wasn't that weird.

"I see." While her admission was true, Angeal wasn't going to comment on it.

"How long have you been here?" This was him trying to figure this place out, but he was having terrible luck with it.

"Getting close to two years," she admitted. This was news she knew people did not like very much. The idea they could be here so long and could not go home... She was sad for them.

"Two years?" Angeal asked, somewhat taken aback. Sure he hadn't expected a short answer, but two years was a long time to be stranded in a strange world.

"Yes. This upsets many people."

And she can't make it better.

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"And no one's found a way back in all that time." This was half of a question and half not. Mentally he chewed on it, turning it over and over in his mind. "So people just show up and they never go home?"

"There are those who are not here anymore," she points out. So yes, some got home. But she doesn't know that they found a way home so much as a way home happened upon them unexpectedly.

"We wait our times to leave, I suppose."

He understood what she said when she mentioned the people going home. So somehow they disappeared but it seemed as if there was no forthcoming explanation from Lauri-Ell.

The former First shook his head. "Makes me wonder if there are people that don't want to leave."

Had she better explanations, she would tender them. Alas, there was only so much she could offer.

“I imagine there are some. It seems Master Ignis of the lodge is content here. He is wedded. And Master Llewellyn as well. Their husbands are not of the same world as they are.”

Hearing that people got married here and they weren't from the same worlds made the former First think he was hearing something out of a fairy tale. So many questions bubbled to his mind. What if they left? Surely they wouldn't leave together? Or would the aspects somehow see to it?

Shaking his head, he tried to clear his mind.

"So people are knowingly making connections that could very well break if they left."

He didn't get it.

Perhaps this was a fairy tale. One that was to the benefit of them all. Or at least to some of them.

“I understand Masters Watts-Maresh were involved before. In another world like this one in some ways. Perhaps this world respects that.”

"Together in a previous world and reunited in this one." Angeal echoed, chewing over this news. He doubted that this place respected such a sacred bond but there were a lot of things that he didn't know. So maybe this was just one of those pieces.

So he shrugged. "If that's the case, maybe you're right."

“Perhaps this place respects it more. It seems a place built of those connections.”

But this is merely her opinion on things. And she is not often good at reading things.

“Is it not the bonds between people that build the world?”

He nodded. She was making sense but he just wondered if every world was as benevolent to couples. He had yet to figure out if his coming back to life was a blessing or a bane. But Angeal figured he had time for that.

Looking at her now, he sighed. "Yes, but it depends on the people running it too."

Perhaps it is his job to figure out what to do with this new life. Perhaps it is both and blessing and a bane. Perhaps he can make it one or the other.

"Does it? How interesting. That is possible."

"Guess we'll have to wait and see."

That was about as much as Angeal could offer on the topic really. He wasn't sure if fate was going to be kinder to him in this strange place.

Yes, he is correct about that. And that level of patience is a good one too. So she offered a nod to him.

"As you say. As for me, I must be going. there are things I must be about."

Angeal nodded. "I appreciate your time and taking a minute to talk to a stranger."

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