1st Screw [Video]

[all_wound_up]

[The feed flicks on to show a rather panicked looking teenage girl in a Japanese high school uniform who seems to be trying pretty desperately to hold it together - at least for long enough to find out why she's suddenly found herself in unfamiliar surroundings.]

Um... I'm very sorry, but I seem to have gotten lost and ended up here by mistake.  Could anyone point me in the direction of the Shinonome household?  I really need to get home in time to make dinner tonight.

[There is a sudden light clicking noise, like small gears turning.  Nano's eyes go wide for a moment, and she quickly points the camera toward her feet instead.]

Ah... if anyone can help me, I would appreciate it very much!

Comments

[all_wound_up]

Well, I meant the subway train... the rails don't run out as far as I'm going, then?

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

Yeah, they generally don't cross dimensional boundaries, as far as I know. Unless trains are even more fantastic than I thought, but I'm PREEEETTY sure we'd have heard about that little feature by now.

[all_wound_up]

Dimensional boundaries? How far did I come?

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

Well, you know that one place across town? The really far one?

Yeah, you're way farther than that, sorry.

[all_wound_up]

This is terrible... I have to get back!

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

Er, can't help you on that one. But at least you can take in the beautiful ambiance of a sealed off city in the middle of a demon invasion?

...sorry.

[all_wound_up]

Demon invasion?

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

Weeeeell, I guess it's less an invasion and more "kind of persistently here and really dangerous around a certain time of night, forever lurking in the back of peoples' minds." I probably should've been more specific.

[all_wound_up]

W-what...?

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

I wouldn't think about it too hard. You end up getting these weird guys that come out of your head that can usually kick most of the monsters' butts.

[all_wound_up]

None of this makes any sense.