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Mm. I wonder, if anything happens to their body here…

I'd rather not test that.

[Daitou shook his head.]

No - it's been changing so fast, and I haven't had time to talk to any of the adventurers or anything...

Either way, I don't know how we'd be able to find out.

That too. But I wouldn't want to harm the person I changed into.

It's hardly their fault, after all.

Yes.

[And, well. OTHER REASONS too]

[Daitou had made his way to the Clinic with a bit of uncertainty - he doesn't like looking weak, but this wasn't his normal illness - the headache that had been building since the day after he'd swapped bodies with the vice-commander hadn't left, and it had come with insomnia and trembling hands as well. Frustrating, and worrying. Which is why he was currently sitting in the waiting room at Wellspring, attempting to look nonchalant.]

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[Joshua came out to the waiting room, looking for who the patient was. A man with longer hair had been all he had been able to get out of the nurse. Hm. Well it looked like one person fit that vague criteria.]

Excuse me, but it's your turn.

[Daitou glanced up at voice. He'd been hoping Lezard-san was in - but no, somebody new. The automatic smile came up, and he nodded and rose]

Ah - alright.

[He led him to another room to sit down, pulling out a notepad and pen like he normally did to see if he could match up anything to be going on.]

You're Daitou, right?

[Valid question, as the Daitou he vaguely knew did not look like that.]

[Daitou followed, and took a seat in the exam room - funny how it seemed so much /smaller/ now. He nodded in response to the question]

I got switched with someone else's body, I don't usually look like this.

The Scavenger's Yard, then.

[The elevator doors closed behind them, and Rain pushed the button for the fifth floor. As the doors opened into the Yard a minute later, he stepped out and took a quick look around. He'd only been to this floor once or twice in all his time in Edensphere, as he typically didn't have any particular reason to come here. There were a few people milling about, and Rain began to navigate his way through the debris in search of a more secluded area for them to talk.]

Ah. Lot of people have been having that trouble, I noticed. That was me, last week, actually.

So, what's been bugging you?

[Daitou nodded, remaining silent on the trip down, and as he followed Rain farther into the piles of scrap. He'd only ever been here once, on his initial exploration of the Sphere - the place felt... weird. No trees, just scrap metal, broken things... it made him a little uncomfortable. But Rain must have had a reason for choosing it]

[Go beneath the waves, that mystery writer (or writers?) had repeatedly said. The Yard was beneath everything, and as far from the Tree as one could get in Edensphere. Rain stopped once they reached a secluded area, and turned back to Daitou.]

As I understand it, this is the safest place to discuss things. [He sat down on what may have been part of a refrigerator and waited quietly for the other man to speak. Whether Daitou had something specific he wanted to discuss, or he just wanted to vent, Rain was willing to hear him out.]

[Daitou took a seat as well, glancing over at Rain] Is it? I had not heard that - though it's good to know, now...

[There was a brief pause as Daitou contemplated the best way to approach the situation]

I've been spending a lot of time with Tian-dono lately... [He glanced over at the shinobi to see what his reaction was - what had Rain figured out on his own?]

[Rain kept up with the journals, and that entry of Daitou's earlier this month concerning flavours had given him a decent idea of just what sort of time the man had been spending with Tian. That was no business of his, though, and he doubted that it was what Daitou wished to speak about.]

[He gave a slight nod, his expression remaining entirely neutral.]

Tian-dono... feels as I do, about this place. We both wish to change things.

[So that's where this was going. Everyone wanted to change things here, but doing so - and living - was another matter. Did Daitou think that Tian might actually stand a chance against the powers at work in this place? Rain was intrigued, but he was also skeptical.]

...That's easier said than done. How do you intend to do it?

[There's a short bark of laughter at that - not happy laughter, either]

I don't think we've gotten that far yet. We need more information still - and more allies.

That's where I come in. [Rain said that softly, almost to himself. So they had no plan yet... he was hesitant to agree to help without knowing what he was agreeing to. But at the same time, he couldn't refuse if he didn't know what he was refusing. He was fairly sure of one thing, though.]

I don't know Tian-dono [ - the honorific was added more for Daitou's sake than anything else - ], but you and I are already allies.

[What little they had recalled - that one radio memory, especially - had made that much apparent.]

Before, yes. [Daitou met Rain's eyes, this time, rather than half-glances of before] But you are free to choose, here.

[Rain shook his head.] Our lives prior to arriving in this place are no less real just because we don't remember them. We were allies, and unless something happened to change that, we still are.

[Daitou was his ally, and the man whose body Daitou was stuck in at the moment was his master. Rain was finally sure of that much, and as far as he was concerned, having forgotten it didn't invalidate it. He was willing to help an ally... but still, he was wary. Both Daitou and Tian had been known to recklessly push the limits of what it was safe to say over the journals, after all. Rain met the other man's gaze evenly.]

My goal is to return home, alive, to my service under the vice commander. To that end, I'm willing to aid you. [Alive being the key word. Rain recalled all too clearly the lecture his sister had given him in that one memory, when she'd caught him about to kill himself.]

[Daitou nodded in return] I wish the same. Thank you, then, Rain-san. I'm happy to share what little I've learned - though it isn't much, yet.

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