towerofanimus | This isn't the Green Sun

Characters: Aradia Megido (OU) + open
Setting: Room 2-03, floor three, floor four or anywhere in-between - just note where you're finding her
Format: Starts in prose but will match comments
Summary: This is not where she expected to end up
Warnings: None.

Aradia had always known that using Noir as a map to the Green Sun would be risky, but nowhere in any of her thoughts had there been the possibility that it would cause her to fall asleep again (at least, she was assuming that was the case) and wake up somewhere entirely different.

Still, she was used to the game throwing weird twists of fate at her. And once she read the notes, even as she wasn't sure how this tied in with what she'd been doing before, she was more than convinced that arguing the matter probably wasn't going to help.

Instead, she decided to make a start on exploring. The first and second floors held little interest; the third, however, caught her attention enough that she spent some time browsing the shelves, making note of the many volumes that appeared to offer interesting reading material. And when she reached the fourth, the vastness of the view around her was enough to convince her that perhaps it would be okay to sit here for a while.

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"Alternia? There's n..." He fell silent, he figured telling somone the place they claimed come from didn't exist was pretty rude. "I've never heard of Alternia," he said instead, or trolls. Was that what she was?

"No, I imagine you wouldn't have done. You must have arrived from a version of Earth before it was destroyed." A fairly logical sentiment, if not the most sympathetic. "Then again, neither does Alternia anymore."

It would have shocked Shion more if he hadn't hadn't read the note that told him his world was destroyed. "Well, according to that note the world ended and that's why we are here." He still had no idea where Alternia was, as far as he was aware there were only the six cities, though he knew there were probably more shanty towns like West Town, maybe one of them was this Alternia where this girl was from.

She gave a wry smile at that. "Yes, I did find that rather curious considering our world was already destroyed. I suppose it must have been referring to the game world instead."

Because that wasn't even more of a confusing situation.

"Game world?" Shion blinked, "I don't understand." This place was even more confusing than the West Town, so many things he did not understand, that were unclear and outside of his, admitadly limited, experiance of the world.

She nodded. "Yes, that's right. It's kind of complicated to explain, but basically we were trying to make a new world after our old one was destroyed. Only it didn't quite work out as it should have done...anyway, I suppose it doesn't really matter now I'm here."

Shion blinked, completely lost. "Your old world? What do you mean by that, sorry I am just trying to make sense of this. Are you saying there is more than just one world?" Because that's what it sounded like, and yet Shion had never heard of anything like that before.

"Well...yes, I suppose I am, if we count the game world. But don't worry if it doesn't make much sense. It didn't make much sense to those of us playing the game either."

Shion was still pretty confused but he nodded and smiled. "I guess it doesn't matter now if the world is destroyed..." That was a sad thought but his mind was in a complete whirl and he didn't really know what to think or say.

"I suppose that's one way to look at it, yes." A hint of a smile broke through. "And we're still alive. Which is the important thing."

"Yes. We are still alive." That was important, they were alive and they couldn't feel guilty about that or wonder about why or how it had happened. They just had to keep going.

That was what Nezumi would have said anyways, and Shion tried to keep those words in mind. "What was Alternia like?" He asked, interested in knowledge about somewhere he had never heard of before.

Aradia turned to lean against the bookshelf, head cocked to one side as she considered her response. "It was what it was. Which was usually violent and cruel, actually...but that's troll nature. It was home."

And that's all there really was to it. At least, as far as she could conceive; with it being her home she had no idea what would be interesting for people not from Alternia.

"What about your world?"

Shion listened avidly, he was surprised that she could see the flaws of her society so easily, which suggested that it was not as controled as No. 6 had been. Still a violent and cruel world did not sound like a nice one and Shion hoped her life had been relatively peaceful.

He didn't even know how to begin explaining his world, since he had not even thought before today that there would be people from a different world, who would not know his own. "There is cruelty in my world as well, but also much kindness," he thought about No. 6 and the west town and all they, well; he, had hoped to acomplish. He guessed it didn't matter anymore if the world was destroyed... This was a new place, hopefully one where all humans, and trolls he guessed, lived in equality and peace.

She smiled a little wryly at that. "Funny to think that could be a staple of all worlds. I guess it's just the balance between the two that differs."

Shion nodded and smiled, "Perhaps here we have been given a second chance, and we can make the kindness greater than the cruelty."

After all if the world had ended then there had to be some point to being saved.

She can't help but allow her smile to widen at that. "Perhaps so. In which case, we should make the most of this opportunity."

"We should! If we have to start over then we can do our best to make a better world." He smiled again.

"That's a good attitude to have. I'm sure once we figure out what's going on here, that's exactly what we'll do!"

Shion nodded and smiled. He liked that idea, and Aradia. "I am sure we will figure it out soon, after all if we were rescued we should be able to meet those who rescued us soon!"

Rescued? Oh yes, the world being destroyed part that had nothing to do with the game. "I suppose so. And if anyone has the answers it'll be them."

Shion nodded with another smile, he was pretty sure they would be able to talk to their rescuers soon, afterall who would rescue someone and then just leave them with no answers?

This isn't the Green Sun

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