KAINE;

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[overshaded]

[ we?

Well, Kainé isn't someone who thinks too deeply about many things, but... ]

Maybe because it was once yours? And this place doesn't care about time?

[ If time back home is stopped. ]

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It hasn't been mine for...a really, really long time. And it wasn't even mine for long. But maybe. I hadn't thought of it as a time thing.

[like. that's actually a good point.]

[overshaded]

[ She shrugs. That's as much thought as she can put into it. ]

It makes as much sense as only one thing to show up for us and not more. Whose is it now?

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My sister's partner. We gave it to her six years ago.

That's the other thing though. Were you missing a bunch of stuff, too?

[overshaded]

... Weird. But being here is weird.

[ She shakes her head. ]

I don't own a lot. There are a some things that I don't want to lose, though. .

[goalsides]

"Weird" is definitely an understatement. [there's a slight grin at that though. but he gets it.]

...when I asked about some of the things that were missing, Chad seemed to think stuff like that was left at home, but that's impossible. Viola said she'd take a look and see if she could find out where they might've gone though if people told her what was missing. I'm thinking about emailing her tomorrow to ask her to look.

[overshaded]

[ He says impossible, but is it? She knows nothing of Digimon. ]

Viola seems like she wants to help a lot. I don't know what a Dorm Head can do, but out of all of them, she seems like she'll try the most.

[ Or at least, she'll be the most wordy about trying.

Kainé also says Dorm Head like it's a foreign word. ]

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I think they're all trying but in different ways. I don't want to shut any of them out in case they can be helpful with something else later, but for this kind of stuff she does seem the most helpful. I think dorm heads are just supposed to talk to us and try? But I don't know, I've never gone to a school with dorms before.

[overshaded]

I've never gone to school.

[ Taichi is the school senpai. ]

So it's your call.

[goalsides]

You're not the first person to tell me that. [hm. ] Well...if they really are supposed to be our resources for help or whatever, then that's fine. Last time this happened, we didn't see anybody with answers for weeks.

[overshaded]

Last time?

[ taichi your isekai experience ]

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Last time I went to another world. [yes thank you taichi.]

[overshaded]

[ Thanks, Taichi. ]

Huh? So this isn't new to you at all. How did you go to another world?

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Well...the first time was an accident. Sort of. It was on purpose, but it wasn't something we did on purpose? A rift opened us and pulled all of us in from summer camp. When we got there, we didn't know how or where we were or how to get back. It took us months to go home.

[overshaded]

[ That's kind of confusing, how it was but wasn't on purpose. She's not hiding that she isn't completely following, but she got the most important thing. ]

Months, huh? Think that'll be the same way here?

[ she did not read the dorm heads talking about terms rip ]

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According to the dormheads, we're here for a whole year. Four terms, terms are probably ten weeks each or something.

[so that sucks.]

[overshaded]

[ She makes a face, something like a grimace. ]

That's a long time to be in a place like this, pretending at whatever the fuck this is supposed to be.

[ Even if she got explanations about degrees granting wishes and saw stuff about the Dorm Wars, it's hard to believe it in its entirety. ]

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That's what I said. They keep saying this place is a real school and we all applied, but it's like nobody can actually prove it. No entrance exams, no applications, no stupid bear to ask.

So we have to decide if we're all going along with this or not, I guess.

[overshaded]

It makes no fucking sense when I don't know what school is like. There's no way I would have known how to do any of that.

[ Her taking some kind of entrance exam is hilarious. ]

I don't want to waste time, but there's not that many other ways to see whatever's going on.

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That's what I've been thinking, too. [...] A friend of mine were trying to decide how much we want to go along with this, but I'm still saying there isn't much of an option right now. If we go with it, we're more likely to find an answer.

Better than just sitting around, right?

[overshaded]

Yeah, and waiting's a bitch.

[ Might as well do SOMETHING even if she doesn't know just how necessary it is. ]

[goalsides]

[mood. such a mood, in fact, that he nods and pauses for a second.]

I'm Taichi. [he could stand to say nice to meet you but like, why. that should be obvious enough.]

[overshaded]

It's Kainé.

[ It's okay. She doesn't need pleasantries and doesn't do them either. ]

[goalsides]

Good to know. [...and because it's something he's been asking people:] Did you show up by yourself? Or was there anyone familiar around?

[overshaded]

I didn't know anyone.

[ ... ]

But someone knew my name even before I told him.