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[drinkingmama]

[ The video pops on a to a somewhat frazzled looking woman. She frowns down at the... pillow... in her hands, but then she pouts in a way that doesn't look at all her own age. ]

Nice video function anyways...

[ She straightens up a bit, and the camera moves enough to show that she's surrounded by a lot of other pillows. ]

So I guess this might be some kind of stress-induced hallucination, and I'm in some kind of mental health facility, but I'm feeling a lot more lucid now, and if we could talk about getting me treated a little faster I'd... like that a lot.

[ Her voice is steely, but it's a forced resolve. ]

And let me talk to my family.

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[littlestmuse]

Sorry. You're not hallucinating at all. The pillow cam is real.

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[drinkingmama]

[ Right, she doesn't really need the video thing that much. ]

I guess it's a good idea to keep patients from hurting themselves.

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[littlestmuse]

*...oh god why did you bring up the one angle she didn't remotely think about now she feels even MORE insulted by this topsy-turvy world*

I'm telling you we're not patients. We're just in a really weird place that replaced pavement for pillows. There's really sharp objects the next district over, though.

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[drinkingmama]

They should keep those away...

[ She pauses. ]

So you're saying that I'm seeing things like this while I'm in my right mind.

[prosecutory]

[A flicker of concern registers in Edgeworth's gaze; he knows countless people and other beings have been taken from their homes or wherever they had been before this, but it only dawns on him that these people not only had other matters to take care of, but also family and friends left behind.

Still, since he had found quite a few friends from home, there was always the possibility that her family was here too.]

This, as far as I know, is no mental facility.

[drinkingmama]

They've got a lot more than the walls padded. It would make sense.

[ She's got a husband and two kids who need her this isn't cool. ]

[prosecutory]

The rest of this place isn't as padded as your district.

[drinkingmama]

So there's some actual variety around here? What are the other districts like?

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[feetarestrange]

Hate to break it to you, but this isn't looking like some kind of hallucination.

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[drinkingmama]

[ ...your face is looking like a hallucination. ]

I've pinched myself too many times for it to be a dream either.

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[feetarestrange]

[ ... what's wrong with her face? She's pretty attractive a fish lady. ]

So I guess you must be pretty convinced by now that this is all actually happening.

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[drinkingmama]

[ It's probably the whole... fish lady... thing. ]

Somehow, someway, this is actually happening. I'd call my own family and closest friends crazy if they told me about it, and yet here it is.

[readthemanual]

I'm really sorry, but it's not a hallucination. Everything you see is very real.

[drinkingmama]

A few others have finally managed to convince me that I'm not insane.

It's just the entire universe that's gone insane.

[readthemanual]

Ah, well, that's one way to put it, I suppose. I have to agree it's all very unbelievable, even though I'm used to strange things already.

[drinkingmama]

I've done things that I thought were strange, but this takes the cake. Are you really used to things that are this weird?

[facaded]

Ma'am, you aren't in any sort of place like that.

Though, if you need help finding your family, I might be able to assist you.

[drinkingmama]

[ She chokes down a sigh of relief. It seems like she's speaking with someone young, and she needs to seem at least a little composed at first. ]

If you can help with that at all, does that mean that you can send me home, or that you think that they're here?

[facaded]

I have no authority here, but still, if I can help I'd like to. I'm a prisoner like you but I'd been doing my best to help out where I can.

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[fortissimos]

Seriously?

[ Wow this magical girl thing just got a lot more difficult but NOPE JUST SMILING, at least Madoka will be happy. ]

Uh, Madoka's here! I don't know where she is right now, but you can talk to her through this.

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[drinkingmama]

[ ...making sure the screen isn't pointed at herself when her jaw drops wide open.

Sayaka. Alive. Smiling. Like nothing happened. Talking about Madoka being here.

THIS CHANGES A LOT OF THINGS. Wait, don't tell her they're all dead. ]

Okay, first, just to be sure - we're not actually all in the afterlife right now, are we?

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[fortissimos]

[ Even after finding Mami, she hadn't really considered the possibility. It seems crazy to think about when she knows she's alive and breathing, and so she shakes her head. ]

No way! Geez, that sounds more like the plot of a bad movie. [ Ha. Ha. ] I mean, I thought maybe I was dreaming at first, but I had someone pinch me. Just thinking about something like that is way too morbid!

wow late but hello!! | also video

[invocation]

[She doesn't pay much attention to the new folks rolling in — she had, as far as she was concerned, spoken to everyone she planned on speaking to, but this gives her pause. Particularly that this woman appears to know Sayaka. Madoka too.

She's never really polite, but she is curious, and it's this emotion that softens her tone by a fraction.

She squints into the camera. The woman was unfamiliar to her, but...]

Hey, lady. What's your name?

And I respond late :P

[drinkingmama]

...

[ She'll let the manners go unmentioned for the moment. ]

Junko Kaname. Who are you?

[invocation]

[Kaname...]

Oi! You're that kid's mom, aren'tcha? [Muttered, low:] Damn, this is gonna be troublesome...

[A little louder:] Kyouko Sakura.