4th duel - [voice, backdated to tuesday]

[revolutionarygirl]

[Early Tuesday morning, Utena is returned to Luceti.

Well, technically.

This Utena Tenjou is not one who seems to be accustomed to this place in the slightest. When she wakes up, running a hand through her short pink hair, she has no idea where she is. Is this another thing connected to that weird Rose Bride girl?

Then she notices the plain white dress on her person. Her expression hardens--she's decided to become her own prince, dresses don't suit her anymore. Fortunately, she also catches sight of her own clothes--including her hat--folded next to her out of the corner of her eye.

It's when she reaches for her clothes that she notices her journal. Except... she doesn't recognize it as hers. She does notice that it has her name on it, but...

This is just too strange, but curiosity draws her to pick it up and look at it. This isn't any sort of book she's used to. Eventually, she accidentally turns on the recording device.]

Wait, is this really...? [She sighs.] I wonder if this is someone's idea of a joke, or if I've been kidnapped. If they really want that strange girl so badly, they could just duel me to win her... I have no need for the Rose Bride.

[No need for her, or anything she does to the people she's "engaged" to.]

((OOC: And so, Utena is back! She has returned as her movie self, a little while after talking to Touga and Anthy by the pool but before the confrontation in the Rose Garden. This Utena is more withdrawn for the most part, but also more open with flirting when it comes to girls [if her interaction with Wakaba in the beginning is supposed to mean anything.] This effect will last for a little over a week.))

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[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

I don't know. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it as far as I can tell. There are a few people from my world who have been here even longer than I have, but most of them have been sent back home after a year or so. Sometimes it's even less than that.

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

So it's completely random...

[The more she hears, the more she wants to rest for a while.]

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

Yeah. I'm sorry. I don't know why some people go home and some don't.

[He really wishes he knew how it works too.]

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

Hey, you don't need to apologize. If you don't know, then there's not much you can do about it.

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

[Awkward. Sob. Emil is quite good at that.]

... I'm Emil. What's your name?

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

[She smiles slightly.]

I'm Utena Tenjou. Nice to meet you, Emil.

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

It's nice to meet you too.

Um, do you have any idea where you are right now? I could come find you if you can tell me what's around you.

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

Mostly trees. I'm supposed to find a river and follow that to get to the village, but...

[This is beginning to sound like something out of a storybook. ironic, considering her canon]

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

Yeah, that's right. Did someone else tell you to do that?

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

Yeah, someone did. He said his name was Shinji.

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

That's good-- Shinji's a friend of mine, so I trust him to help you out. You don't have to worry about him telling you to go in the wrong direction or anything.