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The room appears to be inside a house of 18th century Japan. The room is made with thin flexible wood and rice paper doors, and contains a short square table in the middle surrounded by eight light green pillows, and an oil lamp in the center.

But there is an oddity about the room. No matter how hard one tries, he cannot get out of the room. The doors repel hands, so that no one can touch, and the thin walls, while they shouldn't provide that much resistance, cannot be broken no matter how hard one tries.

There were two girls standing in the room. The girls looked almost identical, except for slight differences in their clothing and their hair and eye colors. Both wore their relatively long hair in braids, one with blue, one with purple hair. Their eyes matched their hair in color, as did their clothing. The blue haired girl wore a shirt with long flared sleeves with a purple and blue yin yang on the front, while the purple haired one wore a long vest with a similar yin yang on the back. The blue girl wore black pants and blue sandals, while the purple one wore a black body suit and purple sandals.

They simply stared at each other in disbelief, as though they did not believe what they saw.

They turned, startled as more people started appearing in the room.

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Both girls heard the question the man had asked himself, but neither knew what to think of it.

The blue haired girl jumped at the metal sound coming from the strange man as he moved. She looked at the other girl, who looked back in astonishment. It seemed he had not noticed them yet. The purple haired girl inched closer to her twin, the distance between them seemed so odd--almost uncomfortable.

When he turned around, the girls instinctively locked hands.

The blue haired girl stepped forward, ever the diplomatic of the two. She thought at first to ask what he meant by his comments, but then decided that it might be rude.

"Excuse me sir," she said instead, "Do you know where we are?" She doubted it, but it couldn't hurt to ask.

"I guess not," the girl said after a moment of the tall man's silence. The girl could tell that the man was trying not to intimidate them, so she relaxed a bit.

As he lowered himself against wall, she walked a few steps closer, bringing the other girl with her. The purple haired girl moved almost as though she was not in control of her own body.

"Well," the blue haired girl began, attempting to break the silence. "My name is Tendou, and this is Tenma," she motioned to the other girl. She almost hesitated at her own introduction.

"Why are we doing this?" Tenma interrupted--seeming to have come to her senses--pulling her twin to the side to look her in the eyes. "Are we dead or not?! Or more importantly, why the hell are we separate?!?" Her hands reached up to pull at her face, gritting her teeth as she slumped down to the ground. "Why?"

Tendou looked at her twin, not knowing what to say.

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"Well, I certainly didn't do it!" Tenma grumbled at the man in her most exasperated voice possible. She was feeling more in her element with the newly appeared conflict, but Tendou eyed the man warily. He didn't look too terribly dangerous, just incredibly frantic and angry, which could make a man dangerous to begin with.

She inched away from the most recent newcomer and toward the tall quiet man, but Tenma stayed where she was and crossed her arms.

"I think we're all in the same boat here," Tendou explained, trying to take charge of the situation. "You see, my twin and I just died, and I'm assuming this gentleman did too," she looked up at the tall man for conformation.

Tenma had readied her reaction to Tendou's false description of them. They certainly were not twins. They were supposed to be one person! But her whole comment was laid aside with the tall man's reaction to this second newcomer. It caught her a bit off guard.

Tendou was equally startled, she hadn't expected for him to act so protectively. Could that be what he was talking about? She felt a twang of sorrow. Could that be what he failed at?

She almost instinctively reached out and grabbed at his sleeve. "I'm okay," she told him quietly. "I can take care of myself." She said it as much to keep the peace as to ease the tension she could feel radiating from him.

D opened his eyes only to see he was on the ground. No not ground but floor. He placed his right hand on the floor, and began to push himself up. As he did this an image of what had happened flashed in his mind. He saw the women who at one moment stood in front of him, and the next he saw nothing but ground. He was now standing in what seemed to him to be the center of the room.

With out turning his head he glanced around the room. He saw to his right a big man dressed in a suit, and also to his right but in an angle he saw two what appeared to be twins. Then he noticed the larger man positioned in front of the two girls. The room itself he recognized, for it look like the rooms of the house in the land far to the east of where he was had once visited.

He said nothing to them, however " what the hell happened......that wench she.......and you why the hell didn't you." the voice did not come from the man, but from somewhere else. It sounded hoarse, and confused. " Quiet " the man had finally spoken.

"Oh my," Tendou replied when another new person 'popped' into the room. "This place certainly is getting crowded."

"What the hell is going on here?!" Tenma called out to the room in general. She stomped over to the table and seated herself on one of the pillows, slumping the rest of her body over the table in front of her.

Tendou reached up and tugged on her right braid.