Here's the obligatory HMD. Let me know here if you'd like to throw tomatoes, or crown me with laurels or something. Hopefully the latter. :)

There's an experiment happening now? Judging from Buffy and - Jim, was it? We haven't introduced ourselves yet - people are becoming who it is they hate most.

Things are never boring here, it seems.

[He starts, having just seen Fran.] This...will not end well.

[He comes to, and it is not unwelcome, in the forest at night on the beaten-dirt path. When he stands, he can see the lights of a city twinkling in the distance.]

Tch. When I said "do something heroic," I didn't have this in mind, that's for certain. Is this some nasty trick of the Occuria? Revenge, perhaps? Venat allied itself with him, not with me.

Not like it matters. Any leading man would make the best of it, after all.

This... this is unlike any land I've been to, that's for sure. The afterlife, perhaps?

That would mean - *incoherent curses* Vaan had better take good care of her. Fran, do you -

Oh. Wonderful. Just what I needed. Hmmm... it looks like there's a village down the road. Fran should be there, that would be just like her.

What's this? Wings?

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Well, this is interesting.