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"Hello, I am Elizabeth, formerly of the Velvet Room. I have..."

She stops and ponders, as if looking for words, "Been trying to get an understanding of this place. I have two questions for people here. Firstly, is time wrong for anyone else here? As in you know people here, but they are from... Far before?"

Her eyes darken a bit after, "Also, does the word 'Persona' mean anything of note to anyone?"

"Anyways, I thank you for any help you could offer, mostly because I still am... Somewhat uncertain how to deal with people who have not yet seen things I have and, do not want to cause any past ordeals to be undone."

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The camera opens up to a- fumble. The camera is slipping a view, giving Elizabeth a lovely view of orange-red hair as she can probably hear a yelp and what sounds suspiciously like a curse, but is said too quickly and too quietly to tell. But sometimes, you know a swear when you hear it, you know? Even if languages are different, the anatomy of a cuss is the same way.

But Guinaifen catches it just as quickly as it fumbles. There's the sound of something falling to the ground. Don't worry about it.

"Sorry!" Guinaifen flashes a smile. It's very practiced. "Handling a phone is usually easier when I've got all my equipment, but a girl's gotta make do where she can. Anyway-"

She's sitting, the camera's moving, there's a wall behind her. "The only two people I've been able to-" A hesitation. There's no kind way of putting it, so she's going to avoid the subject. "Who definitely come from the same place I do just come from somewhere far away. So there's no way of knowing if they're from far before, really- but I guess that happened to you?"

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Elizabeth tilts her head slightly, a very slight frown being seen on her face.

"I supported someone and their friends through... We will call it an ordeal. Two ordeals in some of their cases. That was around...."

She pauses, time has never been an easy thing for Elizabeth, she understands its moving, and knows that most people base it around seasons, so se has to think.

"Three years ago? Where I come from time didn't work like it did in the human world so it is sometimes hard for me to know exactly how much has passed. Still, they are all from I suspect before the first ordeal ended or just after it. Given how.... It was the Ordeal of Death, I do not want to... Undo what happened."

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Okay. Alright. Guinaifen shifts a bit, she looks to her left and to her right for a moment, seeing if anyone's paying too much attention to a girl sitting on some steps. Coast seems clear.

Then, she looks back at the device. Really looks at Elizabeth. "Are you sure we should be having this kind of conversation on this if it's as serious as it sounds?" She pauses, licks her lips, continues. "I know if somebody I knew started talking about time and the Ordeal of Death-" and yes, she says it with the implied capital letters, Elizabeth can hear the gravitas in Guinaifen's voice, "-I'd want to know more."

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Elizabeth looks up for a second, pondering, then looks at the camera, "The thing is... Most people here are not from where I am, or where I was. Only a few. You are not one of them, so I am assuming you are either from elsewhere in the sea of the soul, or another Earth, or even another reality. The thing about being in a place where time does not pass, you become very aware of the infinite variations of reality and which one you are dealing with at the time."

She then blinks, and nods a bit, "I am not using the names of those who went the ordeal, and I do not think they refer to it as such, having only what they saw as a reference point, not... The history of the other ordeals, and while the Ordeal of Death was... Trying, I worry more about the Ordeal of Despair. Which was less... But more."

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As there was no good way of admitting that she thought- look, there's nothing wrong with being homebodies, and if your tech level's low then your tech level's low and there's little to be done about it, but at least half the people going on about 'alternate realities' and 'alternate worlds' had yet to just fly out of city limits and discover the galaxy next door's inhabited. Sometimes it's just that simple.

But she doesn't say that. Guinaifen just nods seriously, a little solemnly, and makes a note to get coffee with Sunday sometime because she needs to talk to someone who's normal. "I guess it depends on perspective. I'd be more worried about this Ordeal of Death 'cause I might not make it out of there alive, and if I'm dead why would I care about despair? You can get over despair; death's harder, but maybe that's just me. But what's stopping you from warning whomever they are?"

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"The end of humanity. Which... Honestly doesn't really bother me, but as... They are a human it may bother them."

She sighs a bit at that.

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Guinaifen stares at that, and is clearly hesitating on doing something - an ill defined something - as her mouth swings shut and remains shut and she's tempted to grab her device and text someone she knows reasonably well here (a small number) to let them know that she stumbled across someone casually talking about genocide like it's no big deal.

Guinaifen doesn't...for now, but later, she'll probably be blowing up socials. But that's later. "So...what would happen to you if that happened?" And, in case Elizabeth didn't get it, she adds, "You'd still be there, wouldn't you?"