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[strangerpeople]

WELCOME ABOARD


[The first sensation you feel is a headache. It's brief, slicing, sharp. It passes soon after you wake up, but it is there nevertheless, and the pain is not easily forgotten. Perhaps your eyes also blur as if roused from a deep sleep; perhaps your tongue also feels off, like you swallowed a bug. It's not pleasant.

More unpleasant, though, is the second sensation that dawns on you all-this is not your bed. This, in fact, is unrecognizable. It is not anywhere you recall coming to, willingly or otherwise. It's a room with a bunk, and there is a strange smell in the air that is hard to ignore.

No, you are no longer home. Any possessions you may have had on you are gone, save your clothing and a strange watch you can't get off, no matter how hard you try. And when you run into the hallway, well-you might find yourself running into others who might be just as confused and scared as you are as the area around you slowly sways, up and down, left and right.

What is this place? Why are you here? Who are all these other people?


What is going on?]

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[yesorwoof]

How did you know? Even the matter of my given name is classified. You can call me Makima. I'll be in your care, Momota-kun.

[She nods, not really bowing, giving him a brilliant smile that feels like it's just for him with the unique angle of looking up at his full height. If her face is shrouded in shadows... so what? Isn't it cast by the man's taller, broader form, leaving her slivered teeth a white star in the night sky?

Makima fingers her tie.]

I'm flattered you think it suits me. Without the power of my organization backing me up, the uniform was almost starting to feel meaningless...

[Before Kaito came along.]

[unpossibilities]

Lucky guess, if I'm bein' honest. [That, and heroes always have a secret organization backin' 'em up!

But she's on the shorter side. She's very petite. Gentle. Grandma and Grampa always taught him to look after people in need - especially women, that's just polite - so he'll take care of her. He's a hero. Maybe if he does good enough, she'll even let him into her secret organization!!!]

It's not! It represents your ideals being carried through you, and now through me as my promise to you, Maki Roll!

[...why did that nickname come to him so immediately?

Why?]

Together, we'll make it through this situation...even if it might be life-or-death...

[yesorwoof]

That's rather familiar, but I can't say I mind it.

[She is smaller than him for sure but still 5'8" and... Well, she's lucky her unreplenished makeup hasn't washed off on the second day of kidnapping yet, then she might really look 25. But there's a smallness to her face and hands, a doll-like quality that can't be denied. Her skin is pale even though she works in this field - maybe at night?]

I don't work in Public Safety - the Devil response force - just for the excellent benefits and vacation time. I truly believe that the people are safest with their lives in the hands of those appointed by the elected government. So I'm reluctant to make big decisions on my own, but I suppose with Momota-kun and our other comrades by my side, it's easier to remember that the people are what matters.

[But... It might be life or death... She's not so much ignoring that as saying her piece about her ideal so that Kaito can encourage her more.]