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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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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.

Sure. So what's your next plan from here anyway?

Can't say I really have one.

Wouldn't be a bad idea, don't you think?

Well, it'd be nice to have, but as a totally clueless newcomer, my best plan for now seems to be stumble around and bother you or someone else until they tell me what else to do.

Has anybody directed you to the guide yet?

I think someone I was writing to has, yeah?

You could start by reading that over and figure things out from there.

...Sounds reasonable enough to me.

'Without a sign from Nagato, what else am I to do?'

Tell you what. I'll even let you hang out here for a while if you want. It's warm and everything, and then I can answer questions. Fair?

Fair. More than fair, positively munificent. Ah, thanks.

Sure thing. Feel free to get comfortable...I'll be here for a while.

'To anyone who might be listening to this, I'm sure she doesn't mean that comfortable, so stop thinking that.'

Great. It'll be fascinating reading, I'm sure.

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