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[pinkprismstaff]

You don't remember getting knocked out.

That's the best descriptor for the feeling you experience before you wake up. There's a glittering absence of color to your field of vision, and a sensation that you aren't yourself, you aren't anything in particular. Abruptly, unpleasantly, you wake up in a strange, sunny location. Where that is might vary--laying in a sun chair on the pool deck, draped over the skee-ball machine in the arcade, face down in a cart in the laundry room....or just stretched out in the long, long expanse of sand surrounding the island.

There doesn't seem to be anyone else here, aside from the others who have woken up and have as little clue where they might be as you do. It's a silent, empty island filled with a lot of questions and few clear answers. What you can conclude are a few things: that you don't get hungry or tired, that any wounds you have don't seem to either heal or worsen, and leaving the island doesn't seem to be possible.

Maybe it would be good to meet with the others who have woken up?

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[photoning]

We're classmates.

[Great opportunity to take the camera back and start pointing them out.]

Hiyoko-chan is a traditional dancer... Ibuki-chan is a musician... Mikan-chan is a nurse...

[She hesitates a significant moment trying to decide how to describe it.]

A lot of stuff happened right after we graduated. Not everyone had a place they wanted to stay. So we've been hanging out together for a while.

[birdysnatcher]

Classmates?

[Like…high school? Shade makes a noise of confusion.]

But you all seem to get along.

[photoning]

[It is... so funny how inherently implausible this story is. Mahiru should find a way not to linger on it much longer.]

We've definitely had our fair share of fights in our time. But it was a special program at a private school. We did almost everything together.

...maybe I should go look for them...

[birdysnatcher]

[Listen, she has a special alien coat and even she thinks getting along with your school friends is absurd.

Hearing that they get along despite it all…it makes Shade a little sad. To see something so out of reach. She nods to Mahiru.]

They’re probably looking for you.