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1 ~ when did I stop believing in Santa Claus? [audio/action]

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[A teenage boy is extricating himself with some difficulty from having been dumped, or appearing, in the middle of the fountain in the center of the village. He's muttering to himself and clambering out. He's dressed in the generic-enough North High uniform, but of more interest may be what he's saying -- which is picked up by the split-open journal next to him.]

...Really, Haruhi? After all of that, I'm in some other time and place again?! Oh, boy. She really just doesn't stop... Where the hell is it this time?

[Once he gets up and brushes himself off, he can be found staring with slightly less bewilderment than you might expect at his surroundings.]

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'...Am I usually this indiscreet?'

--Aren't we all perpetually entering the future as every day goes by?

Nice try, but that's not going to work.

'Sigh.'

...Well, I'm not entirely sure if it was the future or if I just ate some bad shellfish, you know? In either case, it would probably be best if you didn't tell Haruhi.

Well...I've got to start keeping secrets from her sometime, right? So what actually happened?

'Not the most encouraging way that that could've been phrased.'

In all honesty, I'm not sure what it was. Suffice it to say that one moment I was in April, and the next moment, without any warning, I was falling onto Haruhi's bed and it was the middle of May.

'And then let's not get started on that bit where we were on that campus.'

...and you have no idea what could have caused it. [Because she's got an idea, but that's different.]

It was a bizarre situation already, and that was just making it more bizarre.

[Which isn't saying he has no idea what caused it, exactly, but hey.]

[Shiki's been trained to realize when someone's being vague about a subject. Sorry bro.]

That still doesn't exactly answer my question.

'Damn it. Seems like someone's hacked her Perception stats or something.'

Well, I'm pretty used to strange things happening when Haruhi's around.

Yeah, I'd noticed that. Do strange things happen that often?

Remarkably often, but then again, she often goes looking for them. 'Or producing them.'

[And then here...they happen whether she causes them or not.] Define strange though...I've got my own idea of strange, but not sure it's the same.

It's hard to define what strange is as anything except something out of the ordinary. For example, we entered a baseball tournament with a ragtag team of novices and defeated an experienced college team. That's rather strange.

'Of course, the strange part was Nagato's bogus cheating magic.'

Why, what's your idea of strange?

[Oh right...she'd vaguely heard about that story.]

After being here for a while? My whole idea of strange has completely warped. Strange is like...swapping bodies with people and stuff.

That's certainly weirder than baseball. And that's never happened to me.

'Unless you count swapping voices.'

Let's hope it doesn't end up happening, for that matter.

It's happened two or three times just being here. That's the scary thing.

...That's just great. 'Like a Christmas present.'

Swapping bodies with whom?

Random people around here, random people from home...it's actually one of the more tame things that has happened here.

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Oh, boy.

'Just please, not Haruhi. I'm sure she feels the same way.'

Dare I ask what's less tame?

[Bodyswapping with Haruhi would probably be the worst thing. Just ask Sokka.]

The time there were monsters raining from the sky maybe?

[Can his face get buried any more into his hands?]

'I suppose it's not that much worse than Closed Space.'

Are we talking brain-eating monsters or chest cavity-bursting, or something else? Just out of curiosity.

The kind that would eat your face if given the chance, how about that? It got all kinds of complicated since they were coming from all of the different worlds.

Oh, good. That's a good kind. Very popular. Flying off the shelves at Christmastime, I hear.

'I don't even have anything to think here right now.'

You're really good at being pleasantly sarcastic, aren't you?

'...Huh. Well, someone commented on it. At least she said "pleasantly."'

Maybe. I've had a lot of practice.

[He smiles slightly.]

Thanks, I think.

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