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[flaredo]

"Heeey, you've reached Yang! Well, actually, you didn't reach far enough, 'cause I'm not here right now! But don't yang up! Just leave a message on this baby, and I'll get back to you soon enough, okay?"

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[masakados]

I wouldn't let you go anywhere, [he replies, teasingly, as he nuzzles at her.]

[flaredo]

My fate as your prisoner, I guess... [ But nuzzling right back, leaving small kisses on his face.

Yep, this is comfy. ]

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[helmets]

Thank you.
Alright, how about we pick a place to meet and work things out further from there?

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[flaredo]

shopping district? it's close enough to where I am

[flaredo]

Yeah, unfortunately. It's a massive pain.

[ Understatement. ]

[braavado]

[Korra tilts her head back, examining the platform that's blocking the real sky.]

And they covered the top, too. Whoever did this either was really worried about security or...trying to keep us in here.

[flaredo]

Maybe both. 'For our own safety', maybe, but this place isn't exactly safe.

[braavado]

No...guess not, with all those glitches happening.

[Korra pulls her hand back and lets it drop back to her side.]

You said last time, the natives might be out in the jungle... that means someone got past these walls before, right?

[flaredo]

When I heard about 'em... this city hadn't been built yet. There were no walls.

[ For all she knows, the natives were as walled off as the people here were from the jungle. ]

[braavado]

...what? [At this point, Korra wonders if she should just get used to feeling surprised all the time. It feels like this place keeps throwing curveballs at her.]

Where did you guys live if you weren't here?

[flaredo]

Wait, no-- hold on, lemme clarify. This place was around before I got here, but I got to see a-- well, I guess I got to experience what it was like before CERES happened. so I saw the jungle, and then this place, when the buildings were still going up. But it was from the past.

[braavado]

Oh... so this place has been around for a while.

Was it someone's power that let you see it?

[flaredo]

We saw it on our first and only tour of CERES, actually! One big interactive diary.

[braavado]

[Recognition zips through her, making her straighten up.]

The tour! I heard about that. Did everyone get split into smaller groups?

[flaredo]

Yep! I still don't know what everyone went through, but apparently, all of it was memorable.

[braavado]

[Huh. That's surprising. Korra would have expected the word to have spread easily.]

The other groups aren't willing to talk about it?

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[helmets]

I'll be there.

[ and as promised, there's celty in the shopping district, except with something that's definitely not her bike. that's definitely a large headless black horse with smoke coming out of its neck she's standing next to, and it almost looks like she's having some sort of conversation with it. the horse and attached carriage are big enough that the water doesn't seem to hinder it too much, but it obviously doesn't look very pleased, if the way it keeps pawing at the ground is any indication. ]

[flaredo]

Most of them were, but I'm still not sure who all went, so it's tough to say. I remember Mr. Edgeworth asking around about it, so he might have more info.

[kaba]

I think she found that out already.

[ Not that that was hard. ]

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[flaredo]

[ Yang, being the subtle, considerate person that she is, doesn't immediately screech at the sight of a headless horse whose neck seems to be having a barbecue. She can be mature. ]

Your, uh. ... So how does your headless horse get around, exactly?

[ Maybe not. ]

[braavado]

I'll ask him later. [Since it sounds like everyone saw something different...]

So your group got to see the way this world was before CERES was here. [Adopting a thoughtful pose, her thumb rubbing at her chin.] Did anything else happen?

[flaredo]

There was that giant earthquake at some point, when the buildings were just going up, but that's all the excitement on my end.

[ IT WASN'T FUN. ]

[braavado]

[Remembering what Hinata had said about being ditched in the building, Korra pipes up again.]

Was that diary supposed to be part of the tour at all?

[flaredo]

Actually... no. Our guide got sick and got carted off, so we did some exploring of our own.

[braavado]

That's kind of what happened with one of the other groups, too. Their guide left them somewhere in the building and they went wandering on their own.

[She frowns.] I'm definitely asking Edgeworth what he knows. If a lot of the tour guides ditched their tour groups, it can't be a coincidence.