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[hertale]

[Zoë has figured this thing out pretty quickly - she wouldn't be a modern teenager if she couldn't, after all. It's weird, and different from her PDA, but it's okay. She grins at the camera - the hospital can be seen behind her, so it's pretty clear she's in Leo ward.]

Hey! I'm... new here, I guess? I have no idea where I am. I tried asking someone what planet I was on and they just gave me a weird look. It's not Huckleberry because it doesn't smell like goat, and it's not Roanoake because it doesn't smell like farts. So... where am I?

Please tell me I didn't end up in some unexplored region of space because my mom is going to kill me if I did.

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[echo_of_a_jedi]

There's some new age-y archaeologists back home that think we all picked it up from an ancient species that went extinct before we even achieved sapience, but that sounds kind of contrived to me.

Plus I'm 99% sure this is a different galaxy in the first place.

[hertale]

Yeah the Consu are distinctly not extinct. They don't tend to engage other species unless it's religiously significant.

[... She is never going to fully understand the Consu. She doesn't want to, anyway.]

I'm... guessing we're not talking about the different universes made when you use the skip drive.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Never heard of that. Sounds dangerous.

No, I'm just pretty sure this planet is far, far away from home for me. I haven't even heard of any of the spacefaring cultures people mention, let alone this particular planet.

[hertale]

It usually is.

[... welp.]

That... that's bad. John and Jane are definitely going to kill me.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Why is that? It seems like it's somewhere known to you, just not to me before I got here.

[hertale]

Well, if this is Earth, then this is where we were going anyway, but if no one here knows what I'm talking about it's... really far from where we were going.

And Hickory and Dickory aren't here with me, which... might make me a target? But if no one knows what I'm talking about then maybe it doesn't?

... It's really confusing. But John and Jane wouldn't really kill me, that's just something they say when I'm being really "teenager-y".

[Yes. Air quotes included.]

[echo_of_a_jedi]

I know that much, at least.

As for the rest of your problems, I wouldn't worry too much until you get settled in here. Or you can leave, that's apparently possible.

[hertale]

Huh. Neat. I'll probably stick around for a while though. It'll be nice to have a break from my parents.