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The city does not have answers for her.

But if she had to guess... the Shadows seem like good candidates.

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Shadows are bad.

 

She floats down to the top of a skyscraper and perches on the edge. Why is everything so terrible. What is she going to do. This is the worst thing that has happened to her.

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Someone is sitting next to her.

They weren't sitting next to her a moment ago.

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She jumps up in startlement, and one movement flows into another, and she is halfway across the roof before she calms down enough to pause and look back.

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That's quite alright: the girl is still sitting next to her.

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...

Nope. Back up to the sky she goes.

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The girl looks up at her. She seems to be declining to fly.

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Well then, Riya can just. Stay. Up here. Forever.

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No. She cannot do that. That is not a thing she can do.

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She slowly lowers herself back toward the roof, eyeing the other girl warily. When she is just barely close enough for the other girl to have a reflection in her selfspace, she stops to examine it. What are this stranger's properties?

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... This girl does not really exist here. She exists everywhere, smeared out across the city like a brushstroke. And she has far too many eyes and mouths to be altogether comforting.

But she is a person, beneath the shadows' taint. She is whole and strong. Something about her is faintly silvery, reminiscent of the cards she was offered. Reminiscent of herself now, come to think of it.

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...This girl is really unsettling.

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She seems to be waiting for something.

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...

Riya comes gradually down to land on the roof again.

"You're very unsettling," she says.

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"Oh. I'm sorry about that."

She looks down at the street below.

"... from the way you look at the city, I would guess that you're not from around here."

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"Cities are bad. I don't want to be in a city."

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"Unfortunately, there isn't anywhere here that's not a city. I've looked."

She sighs.

"... Would a park help?"

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"How big is the park?"

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"... Still small enough that you can see buildings, but there are a few secluded copses of trees where you can almost forget."

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She sighs.

"Why isn't there anywhere that's not a city? How? Is the whole planet like this? Is this even a planet?"

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"I don't know. I haven't found an edge so far."

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"There should be a place that's not a city. I want a place that's not a city."

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"All I can say is that I don't know of one."

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"What do you know?"

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"Well, I know you're from another world. And I know the Shadows took you from that world."

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She considers this for a few moments.

Then she says, "Yes, that happened."

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"It happened to me as well."

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