02 ◇⊦ Video ◇⊦ Greetings, Programs!

[morphic]

[It's been a very strange few millicycles. Quorra still isn't sure about this place - whether it's real or some kind of digital purgatory for lost programs and misplaced Users - or maybe something had gone wrong with the un-digitization process. She doesn't know. But she's been exploring, and she intends to find out as much about this place as she

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[ninthserenade]

Quorra, huh? I'm Demyx and uh... I can try and answer 'em? I've been here for awhile so it shouldn't be too hard.

[morphic]

Thank you!

[She takes a deep breath.]

How long have you been here? How many people here are natives and how many have shown up like me or you? Why doesn't anyone seem to know how to leave? How can a forest that isn't made out of seaweed grow here, under the ocean?

And, most importantly...Is there a library here?

[ninthserenade]

[Hoo boy. Thinking, thinking...]

Uh... Well, I showed up around October, so... Eight months in eight days. I dunno how many locals 'n foreigners there are since I've never counted but the SFC has a list of people from other worlds in it. As for the leaving and the forest, I have no idea.

Pretty sure there is, yeah. I've only been in it once or twice and I got lost.

[morphic]

SFC? What does that stand for?

[haplessfool]

[STARE

He hasn't even heard a word she said.

BLINK BLINK.]

[morphic]

[Quorra STARES right back for a micro.]

...Hi?

[haplessfool]

... 'Allo.

[MAN OF SIMPLE WORDS HERE, PEOPLE]

[morphic]

[HAVE SOME MORE STARING.]

Um. So...Can you...answer any of my questions?

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[prominence_glow]

Alright, shoot, newbie.

[morphic]

Shoot who? Oh. Colloquialism. Got it.

Have you been here very long? Do you know much about the city? Where is the air coming from? What is the coral, exactly? Why are the people here so...strange? I mean the natives, not the people who arrived like we did. At least I assume you arrived like I did. How did you arrive?

[prominence_glow]

Been here since December but people've been here longer, depends on what you mean by 'much', a wizard did it, a magic god thing if you believe the locals, probably because they don't want us finding out stuff, and by falling asleep and then waking up, slipping on wet floor, and smashing my head against a table and bleeding all over the floor.

That good?

[morphic]

[She grins suddenly, and perhaps a little inappropriately, but Quorra is like that sometimes.] It's a start!

Are you okay now? After smashing your head, I mean? That can't have been very pleasant.

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[patchworkdoctor]

I can answer questions.

[morphic]

Thank you. Everyone is so...friendly here. [The few times Quorra has actually reached out to anyone, at least. She's been uncharacteristically wary up until now, but nobody's tried to derezz her so far, so...]

Is there anyone named Jules Verne here?

[patchworkdoctor]

No. He's been dead for quite some time. You might be able to find some of his books in the library.

[morphic]

Oh no! [Why didn't Flynn ever tell her that? Quorra looks devastated.]

It's okay, I- I've read them all. But if he's dead...[She needs to do some mourning.]