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[besidesvaginas]

[ A. Ezio's freaking out. Dude is from fifteenth century Florence, all right, and none of this is right. He has weird buttons on his pants and this shirt is all wrong - people in his house, he's torn apart his room, there are clothes strewn all over the floor and his mattress is overturned. He was clearly looking for something, and now he's just

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[cramschoolgod]

[Sasaki has been investigating the church lately, amused by its theological incoherency. Today, it seems that someone has been driven to such lengths by this inconsistency so as to pray directly to God on the roof...? Hmm, she's feeling a little curious about it. He looks very uncomfortable in the clothes he's in, leading her to suspect he might be one of those who doesn't hail from this planet or this time--a possibly interesting source. She calls to him from the street level.]

I believe the church services are inside.

[besidesvaginas]

[ Ezio doesn't look up for a few long seconds, his face buried into his knees. The voice sounds friendly enough, but, well. He's been at it all day. When he peers up at Sasaki, it's with a frown - not unkind, just more than a little frustrated. ]

So I figure.

[ He rubs his arm awkwardly, unfolding and letting his legs dangle over the roof edge. ] It's no matter. I doubt they have what I need in there.

[cramschoolgod]

[Sasaki's overall impression of someone extremely out of place is heightened, fairly or not, by his awkward movements. She starts to speculate that perhaps he, like her assigned mother Glados-san, is some kind of non-human organism placed into a human body. It's a little groundless... but then, he isn't on the ground right now.

Oh, levity.]

Hmm, and what is it that you need?

[besidesvaginas]

[ With how DIFFERENT everything here was, it wasn't too, too an off-base guess, really. Ezio was severely out of his element, a whole five centuries out of place, and he didn't know how anything worked here. Granted, his sitting on the roof of a church right now probably didn't help matters much. He'd never figured out that whole social niceties thing. ]

[ His answer is a bit pained, and terribly predictable. ]

I need to get out of here. Back home -- they need me.

[cramschoolgod]

Unfortunately, no one knows how, and there are some extremely impressive minds here. However, fortunately, I have been told that if you do return, you'll return to precisely the same moment you came from. So I wouldn't worry about that.

[besidesvaginas]

No --

[ Ezio lets out a frustrated sigh and grabs the edge of the roof, lowering himself onto the ground in a few fluid swings downward. It's rather impressive and effortless, but he doesn't seem to think much of it, just lands heavily in front of her with his hands on his hips. ]

Everyone keeps saying these THINGS like this, expecting me to just accept their reasons. Returning to where I was before, that's -- That's impossible, that's not how time works. I don't understand any of this place.

[cramschoolgod]

No one truly knows how time works, I'm afraid; it may be that time is a very personal thing. Understanding this place will take far more than a few days and a few theories, I'm afraid, but one thing you can hang on to is that if it was possible to come here, it should be possible to return, and possibly to the same space-time coordinates.

[besidesvaginas]

Hn -- [ Beat. ] Perhaps.

[ Space-in-the-what-now? Actually, no, he's just going to pretend like he knew what that last bit was. For his very... matured first nineteen years of his life, time, so far as he's known it, has just moved in straight lines, one big one, and that was it, that was all he needed to know. Now it's apparently in clusters and tangles and that is a source of endless frustration for him, if because of where he is and how little he understands it. ]

This was never my specialty. Perhaps you understand this better than myself, madonna.

[cramschoolgod]

[Sasaki tilts her head.] Better, perhaps, but very inadequately. One ant might crawl farther up a tree than the other, but neither of them can see the top.

So to speak, signor. Ah, and by the way, my name is Sasaki.