First Rose: This isn't Hell at all...

[formerabyssinian]

[ACTION] Outside 849 Goldberg Street

[After waking up in an unfamiliar bed, Aya decides to explore around this strange house. Which had all his pictures inside. They are terrible pictures. His tour leads him outside, seeing the green grass, the warm weather.]

[Aya finds it all suspicious.]

[Dressed rather nicely according to the era, the clothes are too confining however, so Aya loosens the tie and removes the Jacket and hat before sighing.]

Didn't think I'd be given paradise…


[PHONE]

[Aya picks up the receiver, but realizes that he doesn't know whom to call. He begins talking to himself in English, not having put down the receiver.]

Well, this is obviously America, but… [He trails off, beginning to mutter in Japanese.] Who could I call...

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[formerabyssinian]

Are you done babbling? [Ken keeps adding on to all this information and it's especially hard to soak in when most of it is all believable.]

How much do they actually know about us? [So, they had their belongings. Not that he needed much, anyway, but it would be nice to have his sword. Finally. Again.]

Ken is going to be seeing that icon a lot, isn't he.

[weiss_tank]

They know I used to be a florist and had about killing people. They don't know about you though.

Yep.

[formerabyssinian]

...did you tell them?

[weiss_tank]

Yeah...it wasn't exactly my idea. You see, this town, sometimes it can make you do things and there's no controlling it.

One time, they had this gas in the air that made people vomit up every truth they had buried.

[formerabyssinian]

. . .

[There are things that even Aya would never admit to himself, let alone anyone else. He really doesn't like this.]

What about the pictures in the house? [He totally did just change the subject. It's better to revisit the facts later.]

[weiss_tank]

[Fine with him.]

Those are the town's fault, this place wants you to think you're in this perfect little family, that you've been here all your life and isn't this place great.

The drones here, like your neighbor there, are kinda like the native inhabitants of this place and they think you've been here forever too.

[formerabyssinian]

Wait, what family?

[weiss_tank]

The other inhabitants of the house you're in. You're probably 'dad', and if you're lucky, you'll get fellow prisoners instead of drones to make up the rest of it.

[formerabyssinian]

Oh joy.

Don't tell me you're a father, too?

[weiss_tank]

Yeah...Omi was in my house for a while but he's gone now...[He looks sad for a moment and then shakes his head.]

Now I live with my girlfriend and two people from her world.

[Yes. He did just say 'girlfriend']

1/2

[formerabyssinian]

...Omi has done a lot for me. It's better if he's not around.

[formerabyssinian]

...what?!

[weiss_tank]

Her name's Miakis. She's really cool and can do magic and stuff.

Hah, yeah I know. Me, a girlfriend. She even knows about me...she isn't ok with it persay, but she understands. She's a soldier back home in service of the monarchy. One of our 'kids' is the princess she serves.

[formerabyssinian]

You're living an interesting life. You could give Youji a run for his money.

[weiss_tank]

Shh! Don't say that! I'm not that bad! [But he's laughing at the comparison]. Anyways, I think all in all...the people here aren't bad but this place is the pits.

[formerabyssinian]

We can't have it all.

[The new information still unsettles him. Aya is quiet in thought for a few moments.]

Are there others with our skill sets here?

[weiss_tank]

[Ken nodded] Yeah...and more powerful ones like Schwartz, though not all of them are hostile.

[formerabyssinian]

Good to know. [Of course he isn't contemplating starting an assassin guild so quickly...]

[weiss_tank]

Yeah. What's more disturbing is that people are so damn honest about it too...like there was a guy here who gave his name as 'sniper'. Guess what he specializes in.

[formerabyssinian]

Muffins.

[Humor. He knows it?]

[weiss_tank]

[Cricky! It's the rarest form of the Aya! One with a sense of humour! Quick! Get a picture.]

Yeah. Totally muffins, like we're the best florists in town.

[formerabyssinian]

[Why couldn't the fangirls think of that?]

You're not actually a florist, are you?

[weiss_tank]

Nah, this place has...well some views on gender roles. They think it's only a job for girls...though Miakis works in the flower shop here, she's absolutely terrible at it.

I'm still in retail though, I'm a store clerk. You'll find out what this town wants you to do soon enough...

[formerabyssinian]

[Ken, the voice os wisdom...]

[Aya looks rather unconvinced at that, but why doubt him?]

We'll see.

[weiss_tank]

I wonder what this place'll stiff ya with. Though with the job I have now... I kinda miss the flower shop, even if you and Omi were tyrants.