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[cocooned]

[ . . . This is not where she last was. Although she's having trouble remembering what she was last doing (it's a blank slate). So when she comes to somewhere down the beach a ways, she's disorientated enough all ready. Not to mention waking up with a strange note and in a place like this! She was at the academy, wasn't she? Walking farther and farther into the depths of the jungle, she fiddles with her communicator.

This is a phone, isn't it? Or something like it, she thinks. So even if she doesn't know how to. When it flickers on, she's got a long, metal, staff like rod in one hand, hanging, for the moment, casually at her side. Otherwise her brows knit in concern as she stares into the feed.]

This is on, right?

[She clears her throat.]

Headmaster? Zero...?

[Although she doesn't know if she should expect to hear them. If she's been captured somehow, then she doesn't expect them to be around. Which is-- a troubling thought, too. Even if she'll deny it to Zero, she can't help but to feel anxious when on her own. And now she's lost and can't remember anything, try as hard as she might. The grip on her weapon tightens lightly.]

Um... excuse me! Can anyone else see or hear this? _{Can anyone here understand Japanese?} [ . . . This certainly isn't anywhere near to home, after all. M-Maybe she needs to try another language. Her English is abysmal though, and she doesn't know any other languages.]

H...elp.

[Er... 'Help' is the right word, isn't it? But she's not sure how to communicate anything past saying hello and her name. Or if anyone where speaks English to begin with. Instead she falls back on what she knows.]

I've been kidnapped and given a strange note. I need the authorities... or a...ranger? I don't know where I'm at, but it's no where near home. If anyone at all can please help, let me know.

[A pause, before her face darkens.]

And if this is only connected to the people responsible... you have a lot of explaining to do! Kidnapping high school girls is the worst! Believe me, you've made a BIG mistake!

Comments

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No, no. If I were trying to confuse you, I'd break out the particle physics. Although, who knows? Maybe it translates that too.

[ let's give it a try ]

The range of values is equal to negative g squared and multiplied by e to the negative power of mass times range, over range.

[ or: V(r) = -g^2 * ((e^(mr))/r)

well, it's sort of Japanese? ]

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O-Okay, stop, stop, I don't understand any of that...

[You can't just spit out equations and math at stupid people okay!?? Gah, don't give her a migraine.]

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All right, so... [Er...] You're not...speaking Japanese?

[ video ] 1/2

[cleanedslate]

Good to know.

And I'm really not. [ let's try French! ] Je suis désolée mais je ne parle pas le Japonais bien.

[ video ]

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Anything that time?

[ video ]

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. . . I don't understand any of that, either.

[ video ]

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That's what I thought. It doesn't make any actual sense, but it's what I thought.

You should make it a point to learn French, by the way. Great language. Everything you say in it sounds beautiful. Où sont les toilettes? I just asked you where the nearest bathroom is, but didn't it sound great?

[ video ] Hoverrr

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Ehh... but we're conversing.

[This is a lot stranger than she thought. Right. Japanese. She speaks Japanese. So she'll speak in Japanese to him... going off his example, of course. Japanese.]

お手洗いは何所ですか。

[ video ] that's a neat idea

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--Yeah, like that, only prettier. [ amused. baby Japanese, he can do. ]

What did you do that time? Were you, like, really concentrating? [ assuming you've been speaking Japanese this whole time, that's all he's got, since he understood that, but it was definitely not "in English" this time. ]

[ video ] It's helpful!

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I just thought 'I really want to speak Japanese'. I made a deliberate effort.


T-Though I didn't feel like I was doing anything different before. [She doesn't really understand it herself]

[ video ] /o/ Tony's was "I don't speak Japanese all that well, sorry"

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Definitely interesting.

What languages do you speak? Besides the Japanese.

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I don't... just Japanese.

[ 'Help' was her attempt at English.]

Um... Hello... my name is Yuuki. It is good you- ['you meet?' No...] It is good to meet you.

[ . . . Wow, her English is embarrassing. She only knows random words and very simple phrases. Like 'thank you'.]

Er, that's... probably the extent of my English.

[ video ]

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[ aww, Yuuki ]

Yeah, I can see why you were hoping for an interpreter. Well, at least you won't have to worry about that.

[ his attention slips down to the communicator ]

[ video ]

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[ . . . She wont even argue the fact that she genuinely would have needed one. Miming everything just doesn't sound appealing. For a couple moments she watches him silently.]

. . . Do you...think it is the communicator that translated it all for us?

[ video ]

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Occam's razor.

[ is that enough of an answer? he runs his thumb over the side of it, considering ]

[ video ]

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Are you speaking a foreign language again?

[ video ]

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Heh. Apparently.

Aren't you in high school? What do they teach you?

[ almost a genuine question. his high school experience was not typical. ]

[ video ]

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[Wait, he's not insulting her is he?]

We learn plenty! Math, Science, Language Arts... we have a really good P.E. program. [But it's probably the only class she excels at.] History and English-- I'm still working on that, though.

[ video ]

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Right, those are categories. Like on Jeopardy. That doesn't tell me what you're actually learning.

[ it's sometimes hard to tell with him ]

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[She doesn't even know what Jeopardy is, give her a break!!]

Well you could have been more clear...

[Mumbled. Right, anyway-]

Currently I'm learning Algabra, Chemistry, Biology-- [Her weakest subjects] as well as Geography and World Cultures, English, Literature, and... focusing on archery in P.E. at the moment.

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Right. No -- philosophy. No logic. Why teach that to kids until they're in college. Who cares if they know how to think, we'll just cram everything else in there first.

[ but he mostly sounds amused, and then he adds ] Occam's razor is just a way of saying: don't overcomplicate things.

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They gave us a weird little piece of tech, it lets us contact each other, and it turns out we're not all speaking the same language, but we understand each other just fine.

Sure, they could've microchipped us, or -- cast a spell. [ he's so distasteful as he says those words ] But why give us something this bulky if they could do that?

[ it's not really bulky. but compared to a spell or a microchip under their skin? yeah. ]

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Hey! Just so you are aware, my father's school is also an elite university! Who's to say that philosophy isn't in the agenda for next semester!?

[HUFF HUFF! Her father's school is great, okay!?]

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. . . As for the rest of that, I don't know.

[Frowning, she turns her device over a couple times, examining it.]

I thought it was really small and advanced. It's like a television and telephone all in one.

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Nepotism just isn't what it used to be, huh?

[ he said, before continuing smoothly, like Yuuki wasn't going to have any response to that. this is why you have a -2 social, Tony. ]

Yeah, in about -- twenty years? You're going to call them 'smartphones'.

[ because she recognizes it as a phone, so probably she's at least far enough along to have cordless ones, right? ]