these truths are not gated

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Characters: [OU] Alphonse Elric and YOU?
Setting: Room 1-08, and then exploring the tower. Just mention where you are in your subject or tag!
Format: I'll mimic you.
Summary: Al wakes up in the Tower, and wonders what the fudgsicle is going on.
Warnings: Copious amounts of puppy dog faces? welkrj idk, none on Al's end! Will edit if anything happens.

As soon as the sleep paralysis had worn off, Alphonse was sitting bolt upright in his bed with a start, breathing hard and fast--

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Where...?

Disoriented, his eyes quickly seek out his surroundings, but... he doesn't recognize anything. Not a single thing, and when he turns his head, he finds something odd and vaguely tight around his neck. Fingers lift to investigate, and...

A choker? Some kind of collar or tubing? He's even more perplexed and bewildered, simply confused and at odds as he almost numbly finds his feet with caution. Had someone kidnapped him...? But he doesn't remember anything unusual before he had fallen asleep, and... aside from the addition to his anatomy, he doesn't appear to be injured.

When he tests it, he finds the door isn't locked, either. (He's completely missed that handy little note, hasn't he?)

Al is wary and on his guard, uneasy -- concerned as he carefully pokes his head out of the door and into the corridor. This is all so strange... what exactly is going on here? It looks like it might take a little exploration before he can find out...

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This poor boy. He wonders if it hurts, to be trapped like this...

"Mm, I did. I'm not really sure where I am, to be honest..."

Recalling Romeo had mentioned being trapped -- and that he was collared as well, he glances in the direction they had come. This place made absolutely no sense. What was this, some sort of experimental facility?

"Did you just wake up here too?

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Romeo shook his head carefully because of the extra weight that made it hard to move his head quickly. "I've been here for ages sir, months and months." He thought he had probably been here now as long as he had been in Milano. It didn't seem like he was going to be able to go home any time soon though.

"We're in a tower sir, you should have a note saying that the world ended and they saved us but it is a lie," his voice gets angrier here, "They are bad people and are keeping us all prisoner and keep hurting people!"

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Alphonse isn't exactly sure what he means -- he'd missed the note completely, once he had sat up and caught sight of the door to his dormintory, curiosity getting the better of him. That little furrow of confusion at his brow seems a fixture as he watches the child explain. Worlds ended? Saved...?

"I don't understand," he says apologetically. "Why are they keeping us?"

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Romeo frowned, "I don't know sir." He really didn't, all he knew was that they where bad and that there was no way to escape from the tower. "Maybe they just want to hurt us. They are really bad."

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He would have tried to comfortingly pat his head, but he had no idea if that would hurt the boy -- so he settles for a smile of reassurance, instead.

"Bad guys always get brought to justice for their crimes, right? It's only a matter of time before whoever did this will get punished, too."

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Romeo nods awkwardly again, "Bad guys never win." He said, completely sure of that fact no matter what had happened. Even when really bad things happened, the bad guys never won unless the good people gave up.

"We all have to keep our spirits up mister Al, if we do that then they can't win!"

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His bravery had the smile on Al's face brightening even further, and he gave a decisive nod of agreement.

"Right! Keep your chin up, and we'll get home safe and sound before you know it!"

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Romeo nodded and grinned again even though he feared that no one back home would recognise him now and if they did they would fear him. Still he had to hope.

"Where do you come from mister Al?"

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"Um-- you can just call me Al, okay?"

Mister Al sounded just a little too formal for his tastes, and he wanted to put the boy at ease, looking around a bit more to ensure their surroundings were safe before resuming their conversation.

"A village named Resembool. What about you, Romeo?"

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Romeo nodded and smiled again. He had never heard of Resembool but he was not surprised, everyone was from lots of different places. "I'm from a village called Sonogno, it's in Switzerland in the mountains. Switzerland is a country on earth!"

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"Switzerland?"

A country on Earth? It certainly wasn't one he had heard of before, and the perplexity is pretty easy to read on his face. Alphonse is relatively well-versed on the geography of 'his' Earth, and that doesn't quite fit the bill as part of it.

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Romeo had been in the tower as long as anybody and so he had met lots of different people in lots of different worlds and he knew that there were a few worlds called earth.

"I'm probably from a different earth from you. What country do you come from?"