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[He had spent the better portion of the day wandering around the city. Ducking and diving between crowds of people, and doing his best to stay out of the spotlight - which was far harder than he'd like to admit being a 'foreigner' decked out in futuristic space armor.

Needless to say, after having spent a good few hours gathering intel and having a constant stream of people talking to him about what to expect while he was stuck here (among other things), being able to sit down was a small blessing in and of itself. Something that those watching the camera's feed might be able to pick up on, as the ODST carefully leaned back in his chair, and stared up at the cafe's ceiling with a lengthy sigh.]

"Can't say I'm pleased to be here, but it's an upgrade from magical books." [Then again, giant turtles aren't really swinging in the opposite direction. Something he knows, but he'll hold his tongue on that.]

"Would say I'm impressed by how you guys have this whole welcoming stuff down to a science, but I'm still trying to comprehend most of it. Even then, there's usually a lot more going on than what's on the complimentary pamphlet."

[It's then that his visor lowers towards the screen, and a tick of silence passes by, before he's shifting forwards to properly address those behind it.]

"So, straight to the point; is there anything around here that I should be wary of? Threats, dangers, etcetera."

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It's kind of all I got right now. [His shoulders raise upwards in a shrug, followed by both hands doing pretty much the same.]

And no, but that's... usually how these places go. Had the same thing happen from where I was just pulled from - not my home world, but somewhere else. Kind of surprised I even recall that place at all, actually.

[Mm. Part of him wishes he didn't, but them's the breaks.]

You know? That's not a bad thing to really have. It'd definitely something, at least.

Usually? (She frowns.) I, I mean...I never heard of anyone forgetting about the place I was at for a little while before here.

I guess it was a little bit like this. ("Like" meaning - she was tossed here without her wanting it to be.) But, well, I suppose that probably means I got a bit lucky.

(Marie is of the opinion that forgetting, even if it was forgetting something bad, was worse than remembering and being uneasy or worse because of it.)

True enough.

[Then he seems a lot more interesting in the conversation, because he was not expecting to interact with somebody who was also pulled from a place that was not their homeworld. Least, from the impression he was getting - man, stuff like this was weird.]

Only reason I really knew of it, was because it was something that happened often there. Didn't mean people couldn't come back with memories, but there was always a chance they wouldn't recall anyone. [A shrug.] Probably helped there were others from my world too, but generally they all seemed well informed on their situation.

Others from your world? (She nods. It usually helps when there was a familiar face or two running around.) It was like that where I ended up - but well, I knew that person already and he seemed to know what was going on and it was like here and people did explain it and didn't mind explaining it again if they had to. But, a lot of people tended to come in and out.

I'm trying to remember if anyone had come by choice, but it seemed like most people just showed up out of the blue. If they came back, they generally had their memories too. I can at least say that I left once and still remembered...doesn't mean that there wasn't a time when someone did and had lost their memories either. Or maybe were a different person and never experiences.

(A pause.)

No, wait...well, that was bad wording. They were the same person but without the same experiences, at least.

Well... suppose universe would be the proper term. Not all of us were born on the same planet or star system. [But he digresses.] Doesn't sound like our experiences are very different, though. Not a very comforting thought, but it at least keeps things interesting.

[Hm.] Your place didn't intentionally take stuff from people, did it? Memories, abilities, items?

Proper term? I suppose it would be better to say universe than world, especially if some of us come from similar places that aren't quite the same. (Marie can't argue against that. She nods.) It probably isn't very different, not where it counts, anyway.

(Marie shakes her head before speaking as to give him a very slight warning.) To answer your question? I know that certain items wouldn't go with us and whenever I left - I generally just took the things I had with me when I first arrived and left the rest of it behind.

I'm sure certain things were all fine and good depending on what universe you came from, but other things were not.

[She's only getting the smallest quirk of an eyebrow, before he's giving a quick wave of his hand when realizing she misunderstood.]

Ah. Let me rephrase that, ma'am. I meant when you arrived from your original universe, did you discover something of importance was missing? I only ask to see if that's a common theme with stuff like this. [A pause, then, as he shifted back into his chair.] Although... maybe not.

Doesn't seem to be an issue here, at any rate.

(The woman turns a very slight shade of pink that realizing that she misunderstood his question.)

Something of importance? You mean something like missing memories, that sort of thing?

(Marie frowns and gives his question some thought.) If you mean something important like that... I don't think that was the case when I showed up in that town. I don't think I was missing anything. Not anything that was important enough that I would notice, anyway.

The only thing I've noticed if that a lot of the time people don't ask to end up at these places, but even then...sometimes people were given the choice...at least where I was...

(She shakes her head.) No, it doesn't seem to be one here.

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