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Characters: Irisviel von Einzbern & YOU!
Setting: Room 01-01 -> Meadow -> Library
Format: Action, but I'll match!
Summary: Another awakening in the tower. Confusion and many tearful and angsty reunions and meetings are had.
Warnings: Spoilers for the end of Fate/Zero. Also angst. Lots of angst.

[Room 01-01]

[It was a strange thing, feeling your consciousness returning to you after you accepted your death. The last thing Irisviel remembered was the feeling of drowning, of suffocating, of being dragged by cold, clammy hands into an inky, muddy blackness that she knew she could not escape. This was her fate. There was something so wrong about this dark, evil feeling surrounding her, but she could do nothing to fight against it. She could only accept it.

But then the strangest thing happened: she opened her eyes. She took in the sight of surroundings she had most certainly never seen before. She couldn't move, but that didn't faze her one bit - she had been completely immobile since she had given Avalon to Kiritsugu.

... And then another strange thing happened. There was a slight tingling sensation, and then all of a sudden... she could feel the soft surface of the bed under her. She could feel the material of her clothes clinging to her. Slowly, with an expression that certainly appears to be disbelief, she raises a hand, and slowly curls it into a tight fist. There was strength in this movement. But how...?

Any roommates already in the room are free to call her out on her behavior. Any roommates that walk in at a later time will see her up and out of bed, slowly stretching and looking extremely surprised at being able to do so.]

[Floor 25]

[Irisviel isn't really doing anything on this floor. She's simply wandering about, sleeves of her shirt rolled up and thigh-high boots abandoned back near the stairs, humming softly to herself. There's still a bit of tension in the way she carries herself, but the more time she spends here, the more relaxed she seems.]

[Floor 4]

[There is a lady sitting at one of the computer terminals! A very pretty lady. Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Nah, not really, except the look of absolute confusion on her face. It's likely that she knows what the device in front of her is, judging by the way she taps away at a few of the keys, but when nothing happens, she looks almost amusingly panicked.]

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[V/V taps on the small camera light.] It's built into the computer.

Eh...? [She notices the light, but....] That can't really be it, can it...? It's so tiny!

Whoever made this did a really good job.

I agree... I've never seen anything like this before. [Doesn't say much, but considering the computer and the "laptop" Kiritsugu used, she at least has some passing knowledge of how these things looked! Or... so she thought...]

Humans keep surprising me every day, really. It's amazing.

Mm, it is, isn't it? If technology looks like this now, I can't even imagine how it would look in a few years time.

[There's a bit of a curious look on Irisviel's face - the girl says this as if she herself isn't human. That would spark anyone's curiosity, but she can't just bluntly ask...]

I wonder how much things would have advanced if the world hadn't...

[Oh, now she's making herself sad. But she can't be sad in front of this woman or she'll make her sad too!]

I'm V/V, what's your name?

My name is Irisviel. And... I wouldn't believe that if I were you, V/V. How do we know the world has been destroyed? We only have the word of those who brought us here to go on, and that alone is enough to arouse some suspicion.

There are... some things. Like the fifth floor. When you look at the viewfinders, it feels like it's my world that they show.

[She knows. She's a being made of thoughts, and all those thoughts have turned to pain.]

... Can you be sure that truly is your world, though? Even if it looks familiar... that may just be what those who keep us here wish for you to see.

I'm sure of it. I'm connected to people's thoughts there.

[Hm...]

It could be... that what you were seeing is an alternate version of your world. Not the one you were taken from, but a parallel reality where events played out differently.

It... could be like that. That might be it... And then things wouldn't be as bad at home?

[She nods.]

Exactly. So don't lose hope. I admit, I've only been here a few hours, and I don't know how things work... but there's a chance that this is all just some trick crafted by our captors.

Thank you, Irisviel. I'd been worried.

[Even when the people around her were doomed, she still could keep going because they had hope, too.]