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Guess where I am!

[A grey face appears on the screen, surrounded by thick black hair and a pair of cat shaped horns. Two gray eyes peer out from within that mass of hair and a smile beams brightly. The camera pulls back a little to show off the lovely river she's beside and dips and twists as she fumbles to show off the buildings nearby. It would appear she's in the City of Romance but that might only be because there's far more couples walking by than seems normal]

My device finally decided to work! I'm not purrticularly sure where I am but it's wonderful. And it's so bright! I've never been anywhere so bright. And everything is covered in white and it's just--gorgeous. I've never seen anything like it.

[And when words finally seem to fail her, she squeals and spins in place] Oh efurryone home is going to be so jealous. Kurloz and me meeting strange new people!

So--So, where is efurryone? I am here. [She holds up her device and makes a slow circle. It looks like she's near the border of Tommorow and Romance] Directions would be nice!

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[It's one thing to wake up with someone's weird cellphone in an envelope next to her bed. It's another thing to open up its chat client and find...well Codi isn't sure who they are, to be frank. It could be some kind of underground military or travel organization. The fact that it's over the internet--presumably--makes her think of something more along the lines of an extremely elaborate LARP.]

[The problem is that she doesn't know, and in this new line of work she's made for herself, Codi feels that she can't take any chances. Thankfully she has this useful alter-ego to do reconnaissance with, and this new correspondence to test.]

Usually when I have to ask "where am I" and "how did I get here" I'm not so excited about it.
Was your device supposed to take you somewhere specific, or was random the goal?

(^・o・^) < No no I knew where I was coming in general!
(^・ω・^) < I just don't know where in the cities I am.
(=｀ω’=) < It seems like a furry big place after all with seven cities in one!

[...Yeah, anyone in actual danger would not have time for emojis. Things are probably fine. Or it's a test. Best stay incognito and play along, as well as she can given that she's already shown she has no idea what these phones are supposed to do.]

Aren't seven cities in one place just one big city?

(^・o・^) < Technically yes, I supppawse
(=^ω^=) < But they seem very different if you look at them.
(=^ω^=) < I'm standing in one section and it's completely different from the next!
(=^ω^=) < Different buildings, different atmosphere
(^*ω*^) < It's furry striking

I see.

[Play it casual, like she knows what she's doing. The trick is deciding how many questions she can ask before she looks like a complete outsider and starts to draw unwanted attention. For...whatever definition of "unwanted attention" Codi has decided to use here. Just bad attention? Any attention at all? She's not entirely sure herself, but it feels important.]

I think your device and my device are set up a little differently.

(^・o・^) < Oh!
(^・o・^) < Are you stuck in your own world?
(=^・ω・^=) < Mine didn't have the transport button for ages!
(=TェT=) < My matesprit was so disappointed
(=^ω^=) < But I'm sure it will show up for you soon!

[Oh, here we go.]

"Stuck"?
You make it sound like I'm being held hostage or something.

(^・o・^) < Not stuck exactly
(=^ω^=) < But going somewhere interesting and new is far more fun!

Can't argue with that.

[Except she can, and will, because dANGER LURKING]

I like a good vacation just as much as anyone else.
But I think most people try to have more of a concrete travel plan than just "I pressed a button".
Unless winding up somewhere unknown is also something you're into.

Did you hitchhike?

(=^ω^=) < Well my matesprit ended up here before me so he told me all about it
(=^ω^=) < So I wasn't really going somewhere unknown

(^・o・^)ノ < What is hitchhiking?

[Co-conspirators. Of course! Must be that Kurloz fellow she wants to meet. And if she's got one of these phones with its own app to...secretly book her flight or whatever it is that's going on here, then they must be aiming to initiate her in the same plot. Suddenly it all fits together in Codi's head and sounds properly sinister--but also rife with opportunity. She could infiltrate them, like a hero ought to do.]

Hitchhiking is kind of like what I'm about to ask from you!
Where you are looks and sounds very interesting, but you're right that I can't get there on my own.
Do I need someone who's already arrived to get me there, like your matesprit?
Because then I think you could help me out a lot.

(=TェT=) < Oh no it's not like that
(=TェT=) < He just happened to be here and it didn't even let me come in at furst!
(=xェx=) < It took so many nights of waiting

(=^ω^=) < But it will just decide to let you at some point!
(=^ω^=) < My transport button just appeared!

[Secret requirements, eh? Waiting for the planets to align and the weird button to show up? This is some actual cult shit going on here, she's sure of it. Codi's got your number, cat-pun lady!!]

The device decides?
Did the device choose us?

(=^ω^=) < If you are asking me how this works, I have no idea
(=^ω^=) < It is a mewstery
(=^ω^=) < I just wanted to visit this weird place with the weird aliens

Naturally.

[How presumptuous of her, to assume the disciple knows how the mystery relic works. That would be too easy.]

But don't you think that's interesting?
Why us?

(^・o・^) < I never really thought about it
(=^‥^=) < I mean, you could get all deep
(^・_・^) < Why does anything or something like that

[Klaxons go off in Codi's head--more than usual, anyway. Asking too many questions, don't ask too many questions]

No, you're right.
Just overthinking things I guess!
I'm happy for the opportunity and I'd like to see it pan out.

[That's suitably diplomatic, right? Sure.]

So what do I have to look forward to?
Is there anything I should have prepared for the trip?

(^・o・^) < Oh no, now I'm curious though!
(=^ω^=) < Someone must know
(=^ω^=) < I'll ask around!

(^･ω･^) < But I just brought a book and a couple pens.
(^･ω･^) < They have food here, I purrlieve

Ok!
Do let me know if anything comes up!
Just don't mention it was from me, okay?

I mean, not unless it's really significant or something!
I don't want to cover up anything useful!

So no language barriers or culture things I need to know about?
Travel guide?
Nothing?

(^・o・^) < I just got here, you know!
(^・o・^) < I haven't even met up with Kurloz yet!
(=^‥^=) < I cannot really help meowch with things I do not know myself yet

(=^・^=) < But I don't think anyone will mind if I ask questions?

That makes sense!
Sorry if it seems like I'm grilling you for answers or something.
I'm just really curious!
But I guess you must be, too, so that's cool!

Maybe you could be like
my exploration partner for this place?
Give me some updates on how things are over there?
Until I can go visit myself, I mean
if I can go visit myself.
You and I, I think, we've been given a great privilege.
We should work together to enjoy it as much as possible!

(^・o・^) < Sure!
(^・o・^) < If you give me a few days to get myself all settled here!
ヾ(=°・°=)ノ < It's a little overwhelming
(=^ω^=) < Even just walking in sunlight is so weird!

[There's a great clatter as Kurloz turns on the camera before he's even righted the device in his hands.] MEULIN! MEULIN! [Finally, he gets it righted.] At last we may reunite! At long mother fuckin last, the wonders of this world belong to thee! Thou has traversed a vast distance from the proper venue of explanation! But my wicked kittybitch is not yet lost for I know where to find she! Upon the border of cities do you wait! You must migrate post haste in away from the city of flushed affections back to the region of thine advent! It is there an alien awaits behind a desk to explain all that mother fuckin is!

[She grins and waves estatically at the camera and then her head bobs up to look around. Well. The buildings do look very very different on either side of her. None look like home in the slightest but she makes her way to the area that she is not in, the camera bouncing along with her steps]

An alien behind a desk? What desk? Or will a desk magically appear in front of me [She teases, still occasionally looking up to see what strange places are around her] The buildings on the other side were so ...diffurent. These ones are shiny. And it's so bright! I nefur imagined walking in daylight, it's so bright!

The tower antecedent to all seen after hosts the escritoire preached! This great spire stands taller than all else within the city! Thou shalt surely know it upon its sight! [She is teasing but he explains it anyway, all but vibrating in his excitement and eagerness to meet her here.] All agreement from me, my pity kitty! But who could have anticipated such beauty of the grim? The shine is unlike even the ancient rite of the stardust shower! How miraculous it is!

Oh well then, that's so much clearer. [More teasing, more grinning and a helpless giggle at his endearment] But you're right.

[She swings the camera around to show off the views he must already know. The shining peaks of buildings and the sweeping height of it. And there, in the distance, the tallest building she can see.] It should be scary but it's not. It's...awe inspiring. Such glare and fierce light...

[It swings back to herself] But where are you? Are you in this part of the world or another?

I have acquired hive-stay among the towers with a friend! But I must mother fuckin warn thee prior. He appears as though another alien but he is an angel! I have spent time due, however, and can give righteous confirmation he is innocuous and notably kind despite his species.[He nods to emphasize this.] I had been considering offering assitance to the people of adventure or tracing back perhaps study more of the illicit tomes of terror's hold. Continue hence and I shall meet thee instead. Honk.

[She nods, carefully considering, and finally decides that he must know what he's talking about. He's been staying with an angel for more nights than she knows, or at least she assumes so, and he must have a good read on him.

He's far better at reading people than she is after all]

Alright. I purrlieve you. I shall continue hence! To towers of dubious desks. Should I leave you to get on your way or shall we make our way towards each other like this? [She waves the device around, giggling]

[He finds himself laughing along with each giggle, giddy as all motherfuck like they together just got superbly high. Which is not the case, at least in this particular instance. His laughter is punctuated by little honks.]

Let us unite just as so, that we may run to one another's sweet embrace, just like within the romcoms of yore!

[He knows what his girl likes.]

[He knows purrcisely what his girl likes. She grins all bright and eager and the camera bounces a little faster with her steps.]

I know, we've been purrted for soooo very long. Ages and ages.

[Hardly any time at all]

Can we do the spinning around part?

[Adorable. She's mother fuckin adorable. He loves her so much.]

What barbaric beings would forgo the delight of a full mother fuckin spin of greeting one's dearest? Blasphemey, I do preach! Righteously, we shall spin swift as the holy carousels do!

Purrfect! I knew I pitied you fur a reason.

[ She sticks her tongue out and gives a little wink. How far now? Why is the city so big? So big and so far from where she started. She walks a little faster but she doesn't want to run and be all out of breath when she finally gets to him]

[He laughs, returning the gesture of sticking his tongue out at her but unable to keep "composed" as such for long.

The walk is still something. He cannot help but babble.]

There is so much I haven not yet witnessed here, my dear Meulin. So much in which I have not yet partaken. Time may pass but wonder ceases not! My matesprit, there is so much. The opportunities are vast before us!

[He walks faster, looker for ways to great his girl all the sooner. He does not mind if it interrupts his breath, for he talks anyway.]

[She listens to his babbling with the solid comfort that it brings, his chatter, how enthused he is, how he cares so much. He talks of the adventure she wants and she bounces on the balls of her feet, a skip to her step now.]

That city of Romance seemed so lovely and strange, and I know there's a city of night? I think? [Sort of] I want to visit them all. We have purrlenty of time, right? If it doesn't pass at home?

Night and calamity and heroes of yore! [He so then affirms with a nod.] We could be heroes, my dearest. We have all the time! All of it! Perhaps we could stay an age simply exploring it all! [This gives him pause. He had not actually considered staying an age. This place was wondrous but it wasn't home. It was a little more so now but...] I do not know if we age here. [He smiles again.] We must most righteous discover this also!

Oh! I recognize that bit! We are soon to greet!

["Animated" is right...are all trolls so enthusiastic about everything, or is it only the young ones?]

You're one of Kurloz's friends?

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Yes! I'm Meulin, his matesprit! It's nice to meet you! Or well--talk to you at least! Hee.

[She beams and waves very eagerly. Animated indeed.]

Are you one of his new furiends? His angel furiend?

Um...no. Well I am one of his new friends, but not the "angel friend". Has he told you about a mage friend, by any chance? My name is Katherine.

[She still doesn't know what a matesprit is. But it sounds important.]

Ohhh. No! He hasn't exactly!

[She beams brightly and gestures wildly at Katherine]

But he has told me about a magic and tattoo furiend! That must be you, Kat. Can I call you Kat? It's so purrfect.

[She lifts a hand to touch fingertips to a tattoo when they're mentioned, and grins a little brighter.]

I don't see why not. Did your love of cats shape your horns?

[Because she hasn't missed that this is like the third cat pun she's made. Does she mention she might be able to become a cat if she set her mind to it? Or does she keep that a secret?]

Huh. [She touches her horns and gives it some serious thought]

Meowbe! I've always liked cats. My lusus is a cat. A magnificent purrbeast. But I think my horns were always like this.

I wouldn't know how your kind is born, or how your horns grow. Yours are very different from Kurloz's. It's an interesting coincidence, at least.

[She's a lot more coherent than Kurloz, though - which gives her the idea to maybe ask this troll about things instead.]

...What is a "lusus", anyway? Kurloz seemed to assume my dog was one, and I don't know what one is.

Oh we hatch! We hatch with little horns and eyes in our color--grubs are so cute. And then we pupate into this sort of form. All four limbs and things!

[She beams, unaware of how creepy this might sound]

And lusii are our guardians! After we pupate, we're still sort of small and lusii are our guardians who take care of us until we're old enough! Do you not have guardians?

So you're-...you're like human-shaped insects, then? We're, um...we have the same basic shape from birth, we don't pupate. We're birthed live, like...

[Is there a thing she would have a frame of reference- oh!]

...like a cat, and the adults in our lives take care of us, like your lusii do. Or...like a mother cat, I suppose. Normally, it's our parents, or some other relative.

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