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1st Dive: Beginnings [Action]

[A quiet and peaceful slumber after a long, tiring day in high school for Ai Nanasaki ended up with her waking up in the middle of a forest, her body on the ground surrounded by leaves. Not that she thought she was waking up at first, but that she was in the middle of an odd dream, rather. A particularly vivid one.

It was a bit cold - certainly colder than her room had been - and her body didn't feel as relaxed as it did on the comfy mattress. And she was lying on something else other than the ground.

As Ai leaned forward, her eyes inspected her surroundings curiously, her head feeling a bit dizzy. It resembled the hill her grandfather owned, but... there was something off about it. She wasn't on the route she usually took, either - there wasn't one to begin with.

Still feeling something on her back, she reached over her shoulder and touched what felt like a wing. Also, she seemed to be wearing a peculiar white sundress and not the pyjamas she had gone to bed with.]

Huh...

[This was so strange. And it felt real. It didn't feel like a dream.

Ai continued turning her head around, and it wasn't until her gaze landed on a book right beside her when she stopped doing so.

The girl reached out and inspected both covers of the peculiar object with curiosity in her eyes.

Standing up with the book in her hands, she opened it up, trying to make sense of what was happening. But what was inside of it just seemed to confuse her even more at that point.]

Where am I...?

[Her voice sounded as confused as it could be. It was a good question. And why did it feel like she had wings on her back?]

(OOC: Ai will be walking around the forest while inspecting the book, trying to either find anyone who could help explain what was going on or a sign of civilization. You can catch her there.)

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Yeah, I was in Equestria just a couple of days ago. And then I found myself here. Seems like a lot of people went through what we did.

[ She spreads her wings a little. ] I can show you the way into town. It's easier for me to orient myself from the sky. Just ask Xander. We were wandering through the woods for a while.

[Equestria... was that another world altogether? Just what kind of people lived here? From the sound of it, Ai would find out soon enough.

A smile crept up on her face upon the unicorn's suggestion.]

Oh. Thank you, I would appreciate it. Is the town far from here?

[She'd rather not stay in this cold if she could help it, especially when she was wearing this simple sundress.]

So you did not arrive here alone? Is Xander another one of your kind?

[She probably pronounced the name incorrectly.]

[ She starts off at a slow trot. ] Just a few minutes' walk. You're lucky, you arrived pretty close. Xander's a human like you; he and I arrived much farther in that direction. [ She gives a nod to the southeast. ]

[Ai began following Twilight through the forest, looking around them curiously as she did.

The news of more humans being here was relieving, though Xander was not a name Ai had heard of before - it wasn't Japanese for certain. Did people like her here find talking to a unicorn as surreal as she was now?

She then found herself glancing down to the journal that she was still holding in her hands, recalling yet another confusing detail about being transported here.]

Um... What about this? Do you know what it is?

[She gestured towards it.]

[ Twilight stops to see what she's point to. ] Oh, that? It's a journal. And also sort of a way of talking with anypony in Luceti. Here, I'll show you.

[ She pulls out her own and pushes a couple of buttons with her hoof. A journal entry she recorded for herself a couple of days ago pops up. ]

[Ai looked curiously at Twilight's entries - what she was showing to her looked more like a message board than anything else. Though the concept was not unfamiliar, the fact that they could use these journals for that without any apparent power supply was rather peculiar.

But then again, she just met a talking unicorn.]

I take it that everybody has one, then.

[She then proceeded to look at her own, flipping it open, inspecting it thoroughly for the first time.]

I have not used mine yet, but... looking at it now, it does not look that complicated.

Yes. The journal and the wings seem to be the only things constant to everypony who comes to Luceti. Along with the clothes. [ But those don't really apply to her. ]

Where are you from, anyway?

[Clothes?

Ai looks down to the white sundress that she was wearing. It wasn't exactly her color, nor would it keep her warm during the winter.]

But I can change out of this, right?

[Though where would she find new clothes anyway? There could've been a shop in the village, but she didn't have any money.

Pretty sure the unicorn meant "everybody", or it was her way of saying that because she was... well, a pony.

She looked back towards Twilight after she was asked the question. Given who she was talking to, a little extra explanation might have been necessary.]

I am from Japan. It is a country on Earth, which is where humans like me live. It is an archipelago on one of our oceans, the Pacific.

[Then she remembered that she hadn't introduced herself, either. She does it right afterwards, bowing a little.]

My name is Ai Nanasaki, a high school student.

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[ She gives a little snort. ] No, you have to wear it at all times, or the crazy robot drones will find you. You're not allowed to wash it, either. [ Then she realizes sarcasm is probably not the best strategy for someone new to a whole universe. ] ... Not really, though.

You're not the first human to tell me about Earth. I guess that's where your kind come from.

[ And she bows in return. ] It's a pleasure to meet you, Ai. My name is Twilight Sparkle.

[With this strange turn of events, anything suddenly sounded believable and realistic to Ai - though the tone in Twilight's voice gave her sarcasm away, which was certainly a relief. While she was worried at first, at the end, she gave the unicorn an amused smile in response.]

That is... comforting to hear, then.

[She really could use some better clothes, and it would've been obnoxious if she couldn't change out of this.]

Yes, Earth is the planet that we live in, though there are a lot of other countries aside from Japan.

[The humans in Luceti could have been transported from anywhere, and Ai couldn't help but wonder whether she'd find anybody else from Japan.

And then she heard the unicorn introduce herself again, making her raise her brow a little, the amused smile on her lips remaining.]

I know. You already told me your name.

[Twilight Sparkle was not something one could forget easily, anyway.]

It is a pleasure to meet you.

Oh. [ She chuckles self-consciously. ] I guess I've just been doing it so often... purple alicorns aren't exactly common on Earth, I've gathered.

[Alicorn? She hadn't heard of that before. It was perhaps a version of a unicorn from wherever Twilight came from, or it was how they were called entirely.]

Purple alicorns... are non-existent on Earth, yes. Talking animals in general are.

[Ai scratches her cheek in her reply, a soft chuckle escaping her mouth as she said it.]

Are there a lot of other people in Luceti like you who are not from Earth?

[It sounded like Twilight had encountered a lot of humans already, but what of any other unearthly creatures that might be here too?]

[ She considers. ] Well, I met a giant talking turtle yesterday named Donatello. There are two other ponies like me - well, except that Rainbow Dash is a pegasus, and Pinkie Pie's an earth pony, and they're not purple. But there are a lot of humans, too. [ Grinning ] You'll fit right in!

[A giant turtle? Well, she would've been more surprised before, but after acquainting herself with Twilight, Ai's reaction was just a nod of fascination as she listened to the pony's answer.

So there were differences between people in her world - probably more significant than they seemed.]

I take it the two other ponies are from your world, too? While Donatello is from a different one altogether?

[If anything, conversing with a pony didn't turn out to be so different than talking with a fellow human. Maybe it'd be the same for most other creatures she'd encounter.]

Yes, but the one-world-per-species rule doesn't seem to apply where humans are involved. So I can't say how many of your friends might be here.

Is... that so? Humans come from different worlds?

[Did Twilight mean that someone being human here did not necessarily mean they came from Earth like her? Where else could they have come from, though?]

Earth is fairly large on its own - there are seven billion people on the planet. I... doubt that somebody I know is also here.

[It was a village they were going to, so she estimated that there weren't a lot of other people like the two of them who were taken to Luceti. That's not to say that she wasn't hoping somebody else she knew was here, too.]

So I hear. Some of them come from farther in the future, too. But you never know. There are tons of ponies in Equestria, and the other two that happened to make it here are two of my best friends.

[That lifted Ai's spirits a little - maybe somebody she knew was here with her. She knew she would miss her brother a lot in Luceti otherwise, not to mention her parents, Mia, and Sae.

Though, that meant that perhaps those transported here were not exactly a random selection.]

That is too much to be a coincidence... especially if there are that many ponies in Equestria. Do you think there is a reason for that?

[She doubted it was any sort of luck that brought Twilight and two of her best friends here, of all ponies in Equestria.]

I don't know if there's a reason for anything here. I haven't been here very long yet. There could be. [ But she doubts it, and that comes through in her voice.

They've reached the edge of the forest. A settlement is in view close by. Twilight gestures with a hoof. ] Well... welcome to your home away from home. Until we can find a way to leave, that is.

[Despite Twilight's doubts, Ai still believed that there was some sort of selection method when it came to the people transported to Luceti. However, she had no idea as to what it could be.

Maybe she would think about this some more later, as her eyes saw the first signs of a settlement in this world. Finally, the village was in front of them.]

Thank you.

[She nodded Twilight's way, her smile showing her appreciation for her help escorting her here.]

Will there be a place for me to stay somewhere here?

There should be! There's plenty of open houses, and everything's free. No bits needed here.

[ She spreads her wings again. ] I should get back to the library. I need to reshelve the reading room today. But you can come visit me anytime, Ai!

[To hear that everything was free was certainly surprising, but Ai wasn't going to complain. It was unfortunate enough that she was taken from her world to have her remain homeless in Luceti now.

She then bowed a little in the alicorn's direction appreciatively.]

Thank you for escorting me, Ms. Twilight.

[A library sounded like a place she would eventually check out; seeing as she might want to keep up with the studies she was interested in. That is, if there were any books on those subjects here.]

Of course! If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask. I'm right here anytime.

[ She indicates her own journal by levitating it. Then she flaps her way into the sky and away towards the village square. ]

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let's ignore that I did that last comment from the wrong character journal X(