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[crystear]

<sub>[action; 7134 Brooks]

[Serah almost thinks she's still dreaming at first, lost within her crystal slumber. It's the only explanation she can think of, after all, for why she's here. It's when she accidentally stubs a toe by walking into a dresser, though, that she realizes this is reality.

Her brand is missing, too.

Just where was she?]

[phone; sometime later]

[Serah doesn't have the highest hopes of getting a positive response, but...]</sub>

Would anyone happen to have met someone named Lightning... or Snow?

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[Phone]

[struckbylightning]

I might just happen to know a--- [Hang on... That voice. It can't be...]

...Serah?!

[Phone]

[crystear]

_[That's...]

Snow?

[struckbylightning]

[No way. No way. That's her voice. She's here.}

I---

Wh-Where are you?

[crystear]

_{[She has to go check to see where she is, finding something with an address on it, before she returns to the phone.]}

I'm at 7134 Brooks Lane... What about you, Snow? Where are you? _{[If she's seriously not dreaming, she wants to see him again.]}

[Phone] => [Action]

[struckbylightning]

625 Topper. Don't come looking for me, just---just sit tight, okay? I'll come to you.

[There's a distinctive clatter in the background, almost as if Snow started walking away without letting the phone go first. Damn it, he's getting too hasty.]

See you soon.

[CLICK.

See you soon. He's going to see Serah soon. It doesn't take Snow very long to find her house at all. In less than a half-hour, she'll hear a series of loud, powerful knocks at her front door.]

[Action]

[crystear]

_{[Pretty much as soon as she hears the knocking, Serah will be opening the door. Even if she's new here, there's only one person it could be.]}

Snow!

[struckbylightning]

S-Serah...

[His heart practically stops beating as soon as she opens the door. When last he saw her, she was encased in crystal, dreaming in a seemingly eternal slumber. And given where they are now? This almost feels like a dream as well. But she's here in Mayfield. In the living, breathing flesh.

He knew it. Even if this isn't exactly Cocoon, he knew they would see each other again.

The look of shock and disbelief gives way to a wide grin, and Snow almost immediately scoops Serah into his broad arms, holding her gently and keeping her close.]

It's really you...

[crystear]

It really is... I almost didn't believe it at first, either- I thought I was dreaming. _{[But she's not, and Snow is here, even if it seems to good to be true.]}

[struckbylightning]

[After what feels like an eternity, Snow finally sets her back down and lets her go.]

I know it's crazy, but this place---all of it---it's for real. Has anyone here told you where we are?

[crystear]

_{[She nods.]} Ako- one of the people I live with- explained to me. It's a town called Mayfield, right?

[struckbylightning]

Right. It takes folks from all these different times. Different worlds, too. Not just Cocoon.

I woke up here about a week ago.

[crystear]

Really...? How is that possible?