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(( I think Timmy learned Anne's name at some point. If someone knows that I haven't, I'll change it ))

Timmy waved as in turn the mermaid, the cat-girl, and Anne came in, and he realized he still didn't know most of their names yet.

"You guys should get to sleep already, you know?" Anne said.

Timmy shrugged. "Eh, I'm not all that tired yet." And indeed, it seemed just having something as normal as sitting around a campfire talking and eating had given Tim his second wind. He brought a hand casually over his mouth and stifled a yawn. OK, so maybe he was a little tired.

"I'll be right back."

Tim looked up as the cat-girl left. As he did, he noticed the stars. 'Wow' he mouthed. Living in Hong Kong all his life, there'd almost always been too many lights to really see much of the stars. But now the stars were the lights, and boy were they beautiful. The moon was a slick crescent, huge in the sky over the eastern horizon.
Just then the girl came back, and with food. He picked one up and held it in his hand to eat later; he didn't really trust his powers fully yet, anyway. Plus, that drained feeling was back. Less than last time, but still there, and he figured it probably had to do with how much he used his powers.
"So," he said, looking around at the group. Pointing to cat-girl and then mermaid he said, "I know Josh and Anne, but I don't know you two yet. I'm Tim. Timmy."

(( @ Selphie: You said you might have two moons, so since this one's still low in the sky you could ))

Anne smiled at Kiyoko's yawn; it reminded her of a cat she had had when she was little. The night was fresh, but not exactly cold, and the many sounds of the forest kept her senses awake. Taking a few deep breaths of the oxygen-filled air that made her blood pound with amazing strenght, she looked up to the sky and was awed.

Billions of stars filled it, more than she had ever seen, even in the small village she had grown up in and where no light pollution hid the firmament. It reminded her more of some Cosmos TV show. But not only that, those stars were disposed in strange ways. Anne wasn't an astronomer, by far, but she did know a little bit about the night sky, and yet looking up she didn't recognize a single star, a single constellation.

It was in this wondering contemplation that she noticed it: a second moon, rising not from the East as the silver crescent she'd seen before, but from the South. This moon also seemed a crescent - even though she suddenly wasn't sure their stages were the same as those on Earth - but it glowed in pure gold, rather than milky silver.

The understanding dawned on the girl with a shiver. She had assumed they were in some kind of parallel world, a world that was Earth only in a strange dimension. But if that was it, the outside, the universe surrounding the planet, would be the same...and it wasn't. Where were them, then? In another planet? Or in another universe altogether? Or maybe in a parallel dimension, where the universe had developed differently?...The questions were nagging; Anne was, after all, a scientist, curious about the secrets of the Universe, and it was disturbing not to have any answers at all.

Kiyoko noticed the two companions staring up in awe, at something. Confused, she immediately followed their gazes, and gasped as well. Two moons?! That was impossible; Beautiful beyond all means, but at the same time impossible. Unless....Yep, they definiately weren't on Earth anymore, or mabye in the same universe, for that matter. In that case, that left a huge question: where the heck were they?!

She felt very much like Dorothy, from the Wizard of Oz. But there were too many similarties between the stories (so far, anyways); one moment you're in your normal life, then you have some sort of accident that on normal circumstances would either seriously injure you or kill you, then you wake up to find yourself in an unrealistic world, full of strange creatures and abilities. Then you become friends with them, and start on a magical journey in a rainbow-colored-and-shiny wonderland. However, this seemed so far to be the uncensored version, as far as violence goes. But then, does that mean there's a clear bad guy they have to get rid of?

She mentally slapped herself, brining herself back to reality. I really need to get a grip on things, she thought to herself. I always seem to blow things out of porportion.

She turned to Timmy as she heard his question. She shrugged. "Not sure; perhaps we'll get more answers once we get to town." she said.

((Hi there! Good to hear from you! The group has camped near the river, and we're a few miles away from the fight zone. Night has fallen, we have food (fruits mostly) and fire. Anne and Josh are keeping watch, but some people are still awake. A lot of people have been inactive, but seeing as it's holidays season I'm givin everyone some time.
I'd advise you to make a catch-up post; we've been treating the characters who don't post as phantoms, meaning we assume they're there, only quiet. So you can just say your charrie made the journey silently, or a few steps away from the others, or whatever you'd like, and is sitting with the others by the fire. Or he fell asleep, or he went to find some food for himself. Your choice, really. ^_^))