[Ai took note of the bitter smile, her lips pulling into a slight frown. It sounded like they were faced with an enemy that nobody knew a great deal about, and even the guide didn't have all the information.]

At least people do disappear from here eventually... Maybe they truly have been brought back to their worlds, after all.

[She wanted to look on the bright side of things, and another thing that comforted her was reading about the fact that time supposedly stopped back in the Japan she knew while she was here. If she ever returned, then... she would be brought back to exactly where she had been taken from before, as if nothing had happened. Her family and friends wouldn't have to worry about her, and that brought her no small degree of relief.

She nodded at the girl's suggestions - it seemed like there was something written here about the matter too, and there was even a school... which made her curious about something.

She then looked inquisitively towards Rei and asked her something that wasn't mentioned in the guide.]

How many people are there in the village? What are they like?

[She would find out soon enough, and yet, she couldn't help but be curious on the matter. Rei's world was much like her own, just an alternate reality really... but what of the other possible places that people could come from here?]