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[This is a very comfy forest, really.  The sunlight's warm, and Katie curls up near a fallen branch and near faceplants into a patch of new spring flowers and waits for Snow White to maybe come dancing through her dreams, or Bambi, or maybe a couple rebel fighters on an awesome speeder bike chase that she can help with.  Ewoks, even.  Look, it's her dream, okay.   She'll will one of these things into existence if she can manage it.

It takes her a long while to realise she's not actually sleeping, and that's ... a little concerning.  Because to her knowledge she doesn't make a habit of going to sleep anywhere other than her very cozy bed, and she doesn't remember why she'd be out here. 

Sleepwalking.  All the way out here?  Kidnapped.  Her parents aren't rich.  By aliens.  That's a little better, but still kind of worrying.  There's a distinct level of nervous settling over her now because she's entirely alone in the middle of a place she doesn't recognise, and she's just not adventurous enough to want to be out here without any obvious way of getting home.

It's not her fault, is it?   She can't get into trouble if it's not her fault.  (Is today a school day?)

It's when she staggers upright, still yawning, that her foot catches on the edge of something and she thumps back down to earth with a startled sound, turning to glare at whatever she'd touched (why are her feet bare?), and stares at the journal lying in the grass with her name stencilled on the front.  And Katie reaches for it, because if it has her name maybe it has an explanation, and... the sight of it touches off muzzy memories of its own.  Familiar, somehow.

So she opens it.

Oh.  She knows what this is.]

[Voice]

...hello?

Comments

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

...monsters?

Oh, well... I've certainly never met any.

[voice]

[flickerflash]

Oh. Godzilla's just a movie, then? [So disappointed. And...asking the wrong person, really. |D]

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

I'm afraid I don't know what a movie is, either, but I haven't heard of a Godzilla before.

[voice]

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It's a giant dragon lizard thing! And it likes to stomp on Tokyo. [Blinks.] You've never seen a movie?

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

No, I haven't. Though perhaps the Japan you're from isn't quite the same as mine?

[voice]

[flickerflash]

Oh, I'm not from Japan. I just... [Wait.] Do you think there's more than one Japan?

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

Well, there are people here from places that have the same name and sound the same in many ways, but they aren't completely alike. I suppose it's possible that there are different versions of Japan in other worlds, if... other worlds are possible to begin with.

[She does sound a little uncertain about the whole concept, though.]

[voice]

[flickerflash]

[Well, that sounds kind of confusing.]

Have you ever met anyone that came from Bath?

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

Bath? No, I haven't. Where is that?

[voice]

[flickerflash]

It's a bit west of London!

[This is clearly helpful.]

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

I've never met anyone who came from London, either. There aren't a lot of foreigners where I'm from.

[voice]

[flickerflash]

That's okay. I haven't met anyone from Japan, either. Until now!

...do you have ninjas?

[voice]

[ayu_nee]

Oh, well... yes, but they wouldn't admit it openly.

[voice]

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Really? Are they good guys or bad guys? Do they have clans? Or evil empires?

[ayu_nee]

It would depend on your point of view, I suppose.

But... "evil empires"? What do you mean?

[flickerflash]

Like the Foot Clan! They're a bunch of ninjas that are run by someone who's going to take over the world.

[1980s cartoons have a lot to answer for.]

[ayu_nee]

Oh... my. Well, I don't know of anything quite like that. The entire world would be quite a bit to rule over, wouldn't it?

[flickerflash]

I think he was going to do it with lots of robots.

[ayu_nee]

What are those? Some kind of weapon?

[flickerflash]

Uh huh. They're big and made of metal, and he has whole armies of robots. They kind of explode when you stab them, though.

[ayu_nee]

...oh my.

Well, if there are any ninja clans with exploding metal monsters that are planning to take over the entire world, I've never encountered any.

[flickerflash]

Well, that's probably good, then. [Though she looks a little disappointed. Well, it sounded interesting!] You'd never get anything done if there were robots everywhere.

[ayu_nee]

I would imagine. Especially if they were exploding— who would have to clean up after all that?

[flickerflash]

Oh, you're right! That would make things very messy. Though if they accidentally blew the school up as well, that's not so bad.

[ayu_nee]

Do you not like going to school?