[Video]

[dreamtamer]

Um, hello?  Can anyone hear me?

I was sure I turned it on.  Maybe I missed something?

[Takato shakes the little device around hopefully.]

Oh!  There it goes!

[He smiles a little sheepishly at the camera.]

Sorry if I'm bothering you, but can anyone tell me where I am?  I don't think this is the Digital World.  I mean, I guess it could be.  But the sky

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[video]

[empireofmymind]

[Ken has been trying to avoid people while his face heals, though he feels bad about his self-consciousness when so many others are worse-off. But.

But.]

--did you just say..."Digital World"?

[The stings on his face are healing well. He's been really careful not to scratch.]

Re: [video]

[dreamtamer]

Yes? I mean, this doesn't look anything like it. Well, maybe a little like that one desert, but the sky is completely different.

But that's the only other world I know of, so I guess this could be some part I've never been to before.

[He blinks and stares intently at the screen.]

Hey, are you okay?

[video]

[empireofmymind]

[That sounds a little off from the Digital World he knows, but there's all kinds of areas in the Digital World. Ken's caught up in thinking you're an International Chosen, Takato, and is in full-throttle Chosen Child Mode.]

--I'm fine.

[He holds up his D-3 to the screen.]

I'm Ichijouji Ken, a Chosen Child from Japan. You are?

[It feels - weirdly good to describe himself that way. He's always balked at the label before, but that's what he is, isn't he? And he's made a difference because he was chosen. For better, not just for worse.]

[BTW, I'm going with Bandai's official statement that the tv series in tamers is not adventure]

[dreamtamer]

[Takato has no idea what is going on, but he hastily fishes in his pockets for his own D-Arc and holds it out. Maybe this kid was another Tamer? Just because there had only ever been eight of them that met didn't mean there were no others, right?]

I'm Matsuda Takato. A Tamer. I'm from Japan too?

...What's a Chosen Child?

[Voice]

[pishirogane]

[She's going to keep it short, sweet, and to the point while she reloads the rifle]

This is supposedly the 19th Century and we're currently in the United States traveling along the Oregon Trail. It would be in your best interest to step away from current denizens. Once they manage to get out of their loops, they'll attempt to attack you.

[Voice]

[dreamtamer]

...Ah, what? This is America? [That was pretty much the only thing he got out of that.]

[Voice]

[pishirogane]

Yes, it is, or at least, it's constructed so we assume it really is.

[Oh, there goes another one. Naoto gets it in her sight and keeps her rifle trained on it.]

Re: [Voice]

[dreamtamer]

...I didn't think America had so much wood and mud.

permavid & text.

[brevipennate]

you need to buy food

[dreamtamer]

...I do? If this is a digital world can't we just makes ourselves believe we don't need to eat?

[brevipennate]

[she just stares for a second. her wings flit behind her back.]

what
that is not right
you need to eat

[dreamtamer]

When I was in a digital world before we didn't have to. Not if we believed we didn't need to. The same way we could breathe water.