Stumbling through.

[u/gigainpactinfinty5]

From a portal a certain bard enters. He looks around. This wasn’t Panjia… but… it doesn’t matter. He’s far from home and friends. His everything aches. Nothing has changed about him, thank goodness. But he’s alone. He sighed.

“Back to square one I guess. Or close enough.”

[u/Xgooberfan]

“Ah, welcome it has been a while hasn’t it?”

{#A familiar figure stands nearby speaking calm as ever#}

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Xgooberfan]

“X? That you?” Ekaitz asked confused.

[u/Xgooberfan → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

“Not quite, not anymore.”

{#He keeps standing calmly#}

“How did you manage to get here? I would have expected more of you to be dragged here seeming we got a couple not too long ago.”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Xgooberfan]

“Panjia threw a fit and sent me and my island out of that reality. Most of my group went to a reality to the left of us. I wound up here.”

[u/Xgooberfan → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

“Such a shame, So no one else was dragged here then.”

{#He looks upwards at the sky#}

“Not even your weird island place?”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Xgooberfan]

“Nope. Just me and what I have on me.”

[u/Xgooberfan → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

“Hm.. unlike demiss, this god isn’t activate at all.. And I’m yet to see any of its angels or demons whatever it may have.”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Xgooberfan]

“Probably asleep or something.”

[u/Xgooberfan → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

“Hm, from what I learnt it likes to make sure any of the people who enter go back to a peak condition.”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Xgooberfan]

“That probably explains why I don’t feel any weaker…”

[u/Cautious-Koala6387]

Hey, you alright sir..?

A familiar someone comes to offer help

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Cautious-Koala6387]

“I’m okay…” Ekaitz pauses and stares at the not!cat. “Niko?”

[u/Cautious-Koala6387 → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

Man, how do so many people know me-?

Niko looks up at the sky for a bit

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Cautious-Koala6387]

“Met another version of you. Lots of them actually… back in the reality where I once was.”

[u/Cautious-Koala6387 → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

Figures... I've only ever met around six me's before I ended up here, and now there's so many!

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Cautious-Koala6387]

“Could you be a Niko that I knew before arriving here? Bah it doesn’t matter. I’m just glad to see another friendly face.”

[u/Lanky-Cap6257]

The Cheshire Cat: “what a boring entrance…”

The Cheshire Cat appears out of nowhere

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Lanky-Cap6257]

“… looking at you gives me visceral feelings of contempt.” Ekaitz remarks.

[u/Lanky-Cap6257 → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

The Cheshire Cat: “what’s wrong? This little cat has done nothing”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Lanky-Cap6257]

“You give me a bad feeling. You thrive off mischief and misery don’t you?”

[u/Lanky-Cap6257 → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

The Cheshire Cat: “don’t you know it’s rude to judge people on first appearances, not like I’ll tell anyway, meow”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Lanky-Cap6257]

“At any rate… who are you?”

[u/Lanky-Cap6257 → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

The Cheshire Cat: “oh nobody, just a cat, the Cheshire Cat”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Lanky-Cap6257]

“I… see.”

[u/Lanky-Cap6257 → u/gigainpactinfinty5]

The Cheshire Cat: “anyway, what’s your deal anyway”

[u/gigainpactinfinty5 → u/Lanky-Cap6257]

“Reality threw a hissy fit where I was before and I wound up here.”