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I - [action, morning, 1125 Taylor]

[It was very, very odd. What does waking up feel like to a person who thought they were dead? They'd think it was some sort of afterlife, right? In Mion's case, yes. Color her the most confused when she opened her eyes to see sunlight. 

Sunlight, no. The last time she'd closed her eyes, it had been the dead of night. They were getting picked off one by one, death by horrible death, by...who was killing them? Who had done it? For the life of her, she couldn't remember. It was someone she knew, someone all of them knew, someone so familiar it the shock of learning it hit her harder than actually getting shot.

It was.

Her? Takano?]

The...hell...?

[So Mion sits up in bed, and rubs her eyes. She peers out the window beside her. 

and things got even more confusing. A white house with a clean picket fence? Fresh-cut grass and leaves falling off of autumnal trees? It looked like some kind of place from a child's storybook, not anything like she town she'd grown up in. This frankly all seemed like a type of karmic purgatory to her. Was she really dead, though? She pinched herself and the pain sensation seemed real enough.

In a panic only someone like Mion could muster, she immediately scrambled out of her door, down the stairs, and into the kitchen. If a housemate chooses to come and investigate the sudden racket, they will see one (1) Mion, sitting at the kitchen table with a pot of coffee boiling, singing something very odd and looking a little dazed.] Swing loooow, sweet chaaaaariot...

II - [phone - evening]

Uh. Hi. Guess I'm not dead afterall. Which is good. But it'd also be kinda cool to consciously see the afterlife. [A pause.] Is anyone from Hinamizawa here? I have some friends I'd like to get into contact with. As soon as possible. I need to make sure they're not all dead, too.

III - [highschool, afternoon, Wednesday]

[Your class. That day. SUDDENLY PAPER AIRPLANE COLLIDING WITH YOUR HEAD. There's a dry giggle from behind, the owner of the paper plane clearly very amused with herself. What do?]

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Hey.

[Mild twitch, prodding Marisa's arm with the empty coffee mug in her hand.]

You want coffee?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[The snoring is disrupted and one gold eye cracks open.]

Tea...

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This joint has tea? [She seems genuinely surprised.]

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Third cupboard on the [yaaaaaawn] left.

[And in said cupboard is loose leaf black tea.]

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Ooooo. [Mion springs up from her chair, goes rummaging, and starts making said tea. While she uses the water she was going to use for the coffee, she drums her nails on the countertop.]

So. How long do we have to stay here before we go to Heaven? Unless they're sending me to hell; that's not surprising.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Oh, we all go to Hell first and then the Yama decides where we go from there. You can always ask her yourself, ze.

[Marisa is not fully awake. CLEARLY.]

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Yama...[She pauses.] Aren't we already in hell?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Nah. This isn't Hell, ze. It's Mayfield.

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May...field? [Blink-blink. If it wasn't obvious that Mion was new, it should be obvious now.]

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Yeah... It sucks, ze. [Marisa pillows her head on her arms again and closes her eyes.]

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[Mion whirls around, and clanks the teacup down on the table.]

What's Mayfield? Where is this? If this isn't some kind of purgatory, I must have been kidnapped, right? Did you get kidnapped?

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[Marisa jolts upright so fast she falls over backwards, the chair clattering to the ground.]

Ow...

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[Mion says nothing, looking ridiculously awkward, but reaches down to help Marisa up.]

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[Rubbing her head, Marisa lets Mion help her up.]

Ugh. It's too early to deal with a not!sister...

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What are you talking about...? Shion's my sister...Shion Sonozaki.

Is she here? Did she have something to do with this?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

I said not!sister. This stupid place has put you in this house and the drones - the soulless people - are going to tell you that you and me are sisters. And the asshole alien that also lives here is your father, ze.

It doesn't matter that you have a real family. hey took us away from all that and trapped us here.

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[A scowl forms across her face.]

Are you damn serious? [Part of her can't believe it; part of her still thinks she's dead, after all. But another part of her does: what other explanations are there?]

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Yes, I am. Now where's [yaaaawn] the damn tea?

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[She slides the full cup over to Marisa, but doesn't sit down.]

So what are we supposed to do? Just sit here and pretend to be a happy family with some strangers?

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That's what they want us to do, ze. [She sits up and take her tea, sipping it.] But they say they want us to be happy families, but then they go and mess with us. Do crap that's horrible. And then it goes back to this false happiness crap.

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Damn...screwed up crap... [And insert a few more choice curse words under her breath while she makes tea for herself this time.]

Has anyone tried to get out?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Yup. Town just loops back around when you try to leave.

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What about flying up? Or digging?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that doesn't work, ze.

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Goddammit! [In a bit of rage, she slams the teacup down on the countertop, causing the tea inside to slosh around and spill out on her hand.]

Great. [She sets the cup aside, and sticks her hand under water from the sink.] So, there's basically nothing we can do.