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[She's still disoriented. Disoriented and tired and feeling like a well-wrung sponge. She probably looks the part too, face having the ruddy, blotchy look of someone who's gone through a lot of upheaval in a very short space of time.

She barely understands what's going on, beyond the barest jist of things. For her, it was only a few hours at most since she was in the heart of the great gem before she was flung into this world, owing to ending up on a place in her world that was... temporally flexible... for those two while the gem did its work. And once she's taken some time to just sleep and gather herself... she can get started.

She still has Feathers. And Pathfinder. And even her locket. Which is as good a place as any to start.]

H-hey. I don't... really recognize where I am. He... that man said we were in the past I think?

[But this area honestly doesn't even look like part of the future world either. An entirely new location. She could try her corridors sure, but those only worked to places she's been before, and it seems risky if she isn't even sure whether those places exist in the past.

All of these time thoughts are giving her a headache. She reaches a hand up to rub her forehead. Behind her, a chocobo briefly butts into view to nudge the side of her head. She reaches the same free hand back to pat its beak absently.]

I'm sorry. [This must look so dumb.] I'm still really confused. But... we're all here, right?

[They're not all strangers again, starting from scratch?]

Locked to Compassnet

[With a more general address out of the way she goes for something a bit more targeted. He'd said the Seelie and Unseelie didn't exist yet, but after a few months of being wary of the lockets, she's still careful.

She pulls up Pathfinder's charm, the wayfinder that Riku had given her, and speaks slowly.]

Terra? Riku? Elizabeth? Sora? Merida? Um... I'm not sure who else is here.

[Who else of the people she cares about has access to the separate network. There's a nervous, almost pleading edge to her voice. Well if they were still here or not... this would make it obvious either way.]

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[She more than remembers. In fact when Lumina first appears on the screen, Xion's face drains of color, because thanks to timey wimey bullshit, the pain of accepting that Lightning was gone was still pretty fresh. To the point that she speaks without thinking]

Ligh-

[One of her hands flies up to cover her mouth, and it's only once she feels she's got her head on straight does she lower it again.]

S-sorry. You...

[Okay no let's just... gloss over this for now.]

Nevermind. How far back are we? What... what else is- hey!

[Because at that moment a certain chocobo friend will be pushing his beak into view to peer at the locket. He recognizes that voice!]

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[Lumina's eyes narrow at that, just for a second, catching her sister's name there before the other girl cut herself off. Hmm.]

Nope. I'm Lumina. [She giggles as she corrects her, then shrugs.]

No clue how far back we are, though. Considering how different everything is, I'd bet it's basically forever. I mean, can't imagine these courts all collapsed a couple weeks before we showed up, huh?

[She brightens at the sight of the bird, and gives the creature a little finger wave.]

Hey you. I was wondering where that one got off to...

[Both Feather's actions and Lumina's reaction are a bit startling, to say the least.]

You know each other?

[Come to think of it, she'd never really asked Lightning where she'd gotten the chocobos from. Maybe she should have. ... well it didn't really matter anymore, did it?

As Feathers continues to inspect Xion's locket, something strange about what Lumina's said strikes Xion.]

You said... courts?

[But this was supposed to be before Seelie and Unseelie existed, wasn't it?]

Kingdoms? Whatever you wanna call them. [She just shrugs.]

But yeah, I know him. I know pretty much all the chocobos running around...

Though. [She smirks.] Last time I saw that guy, I was lending him to my sister...

[There's an unspoken 'So why do you have him?' there.]

[Xion doesn't miss the unspoken question. A hand comes up to gently brush through the feathers on his neck.]

Lightning. She... She gave him to me, when she and Yuri and I traveled together, right after we all got here.

[She hesitates. It's already uncomfortable talking about Lightning, given how much Xion missed her. But another thing she didn't miss was that word - "borrowed."]

He's... really yours?

[There's a definite note of unease there. Because Xion's gotten pretty damn attached to her feathered friend.]

[Lumina lets out a dramatic, put-upon sigh.] Light sure does like giving things away, doesn't she...

[A slow shake of her head...and then a smirk and a shrug.]

Weeeeeell...I mean, he was...but I guess you can hold onto him.