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[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.

The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.

Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.

Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]

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[You think Cloud doesn't notice things? Well bad for Sheena he had noticed that during her short stay around the food, she barely ate anything, if she did at all...

He doesn't follow right away, it's not his style, so he waits a while, checks other things around, gets a bite and everything... Then he looks for her.

He approaches as silent as he can, luckily the steam sound will cover his steps. As she looks at the sky, there might be a Cloud blocking the way and looking at her from above, and upside down.]

[Sheena had closed her eyes briefly to enjoy the cool water, and started when she opened them to reveal his sudden upside-down presence. He'd do her grandfather proud in the stealth department.

She blinks a moment in surprise before smiling warmly.]

Hi, Cloud. What brings you out here?

The expedition. [Smartass... He smirks a little though.]

Oh, very funny.

[She's trying not to laugh, really!]

I know, right? [He's just so natural at being one... At last he moves away and sits next to her instead. Getting his feet on water doesn't seem like the worst of the ideas. But he'll wait a bit to do that, first, he gets a bread and some cheese from some pocket and offers it to her.]

[Now she does laugh as he sits beside her, and it feels good to do so. Although he's not sticking his feet in, she hopes he doesn't mind if she keeps hers doused in the water.

Their idle movements stop when he offers her the food, wondering if he had seen her earlier. She's still not hungry, but she'll feel impolite if she refuses. She nods slightly in acceptance.]

Thanks.

[He lets out a little grunt as an answer. If she eats or not... Well, truth to be told, it's not his problem, but he tried. Hopefully she'd eat later; they all needed their strengths. A bit of silence from his part, enjoying the sounds of the night (which in the Dead Zone were almost none...) until he speaks again.]

Is it your first one?

[She takes the offered food and looks at it a moment.]

Would you like some?

[Yes, he had offered it to her, but that doesn't mean she's not going to share.

She wriggles her toes a little, causing small splashes to appear as she also takes in the nighttime noises.]

Yeah. How about you?

[Shakes his head a bit at the offer.]

I'm full. [And those words, Sheena, you'll only hear him saying them while in the Dead Zone.]

My first one here? Yeah. We were kind of in the middle of one back home. [Takes his boot off, placing them neatly beside him, together with his socks and the bandages around his ankles. Then, after folding the edge of his pants, he puts his feet into the water. It's cold and delicious and relaxing.]

[Well, she likes to cook, so when they get back, she can always try to help him say that out of the DZ.]

Okay. [She sets it aside for the moment. She's still not hungry, but the smell of the food may convince her stomach otherwise as they talked.]

Oh, I know what you mean about that. [All right! Something in common!] Although this is my first one here, too, I had explored a lot of places and ruins with my friends back home. So, I'm used to traveling and exploring.

[She watches him as he bares his feet, her eyes narrowing slightly in concern upon seeing the bandages. However, she doesn't say anything, instead giving him a small smile that seemed to say, "Nice, huh?"]

What were you looking for? [He wiggles his toes inside the water.]

[She takes a while to respond, staring at her own wiggling toes as she tries to think of the best way to put it. Finally, she just tells the simple truth.]

Elemental Spirits.

[Wiggle. Wiggle.]

[Oh hey, ... he actually starts wondering why shes taking so long instead of disregarding it --could it be a touchy subject?]

Elemental as in...

[It's sort of a touchy subject, but the hesitation is mainly because Sheena doesn't know exactly how to explain the Summons to people not from her world.]

Elemental as in the elements: Fire, Ice, Water, and several others.

[She blinks and the wiggling stops.]

Do you know about things like that?

I dunno, but those are the same elements I know. ... Plus the Elemental Materia but I doubt you're talking about that.

Lemme guess, you were on a quest to find them and save your world. [He's SO kidding, and tossing that out there because it sounds silly! Even though it's exactly what he's been doing in his own world. If he was just someone else, he would probably laugh at that.]

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Materia? What's that? [It's actually kind of nice talking to someone who understands what she's saying.]

Actually, no. But you're kinda close. I was on a quest with my friends to save TWO worlds. [She can be a smart-ass, too.]

[Give him a moment, he's fishing something from his pocket.]

Two, huh? [Now that honestly sounds cool, now that they are there away from those problems only, putting it on perspective. If he was still at home, he wouldn't think that's indeed too nice to have so much responsibility. Either way, please elaborate?]

[She's thinking it's more food, so she doesn't say anything.]

Yeah. The story's pretty complicated. The two worlds were originally one thousands of years ago, but we didn't know that as we began severing the links formed by the Summon Spirits that kept them connected to each other. Why they were still connected is also complicated, but we continued getting the Summon Spirits to help us and eventually came to the one who had originally created the item used to split the world. After I made a pact with the Spirit--called Origin--he recreated the item for us. It's called the Eternal Sword and only my friend Lloyd can wield it, and he used it rejoin the worlds.

[Elaboration, yet still unclear. "Complicated" really doesn't do the story justice. And any pride he hears in that last sentence is over Lloyd's achievement and not for anything she had done.]

[Complicated... Yeah, he knew the implications of that word, and he'd rather not go too deep into that, really.]

How did you get involved?

Me? Uh, well-- [Sheena's does a pretty good impersonation of Samantha from "Bewitched" as she hesitates telling him.]

I was sent to assassinate Colette.

But she's my friend now! I-- I couldn't kill her after seeing how nice she was, and how much she was needed.

[He simply nods.]

[She blinks--a little surprised that he's not asking her more about it.]

Have-- Have you met Colette?

No. Why?

Oh. Since you didn't ask anything else, I thought maybe you had and knew just how nice she is.

[Pauses.]

Maybe I should have mentioned that she's one of the friends from home that's here, too.

[WHOOPS.]

[Shakes his head a bit.]

I assumed that she was.