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Where am I now?

This certainly was a surprise to the sphere hunter. She had been working in a city she thought she would be trapped in forever but when she blinked she was suddenly standing in a bar. Not just any bar either, she was in space. It was a place that she ad only heard about from stories and she never thought that she would be able to see it first hand. Her hope flared as she looked out the windows. This might be a way to finally find her way home.

She walked over to the nearest person, trying her best to stay calm. Her strides were confident and her expression pleasant. She thought about getting a drink but decided there was something else she needed to do first, someone she needed to find.

"Excuse me but do you know where I am?" She paused a moment before continuing. "Wait, on second thought, I think I might have a better question than that. I'm looking for someone..."

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After deciding that she was here for the time being, Yuna began to explore the allotted corridors. She certainly looked like a tourist. As she walked she would stop, stare and then gape at the things that were unfamiliar to her. Spira had some technology but nothing like this, even her air ship couldn't compare.

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"And it looks like your quest might go on forever, huh?" Billy understood now. He nodded sympathetically. "I'm sorry. But you know? Technology's advanced so much by now. Even with all those worlds, it might be possible to find what you're looking for. There are endless books and databases."

He smiled and gestured for her to walk with him. "All right. We're in the hall leading to Ten Forward now...that's the bar, and you probably arrived there, right? They'll serve anything you want, and most people do their socializing there. The next most common place to find people is the holodeck..."

He was off toward the lift, eager to show that off.

Yuna ran to catch up and then matched his long strides. She was used to having to keep up with people who were taller than her. "I don't know if I will find were I am from. That and magic doesn't always mix with technology very well." She waved her hands randomly as she spoke.

His excitement was contagious and Yuna caught herself smiling as she followed him. She didn't know what the holodeck was but it sounded interesting and she assumed it had something to do with holograms.

Billy pressed a few quick button commands to open the door to the holodeck, smiling from ear to ear. This great place was...a dull room with four flat walls, dark grey with a yellow grid design. Pretty boring, but he was still excited.

"This is just the room's neutral state---but if you tell it what you want, it can alter this area into an illusion of just about anything you want. Low-gravity, seaside, a mountain-top, a dance floor, a combat simulation...anything. Want to try?"

"Anything?" Yuna looked around the room curiously. It didn't look like much but she wasn't going to let looks deceive her. She wondered if it showed things like her spheres did.

"I don't even know what I would want to see." She lightly tapped her chin. "How does it work?"

"You tell it what you want to see, just by talking to the room. Like this:"

Billy rocked forward on the balls of his feet, grinned, and thought of something. "I'd like to see a rustic hillside cottage, preferably with a tea room."

After a moment or two of calculation, what he described appeared: a scenic countryside, and a cottage. With tea that was drinkable. The computer filled in the details expertly, and soon the artificiality seemed to fade away.

"You don't have to be all that specific. It has certain presets. But that's how it works!"

Her eyes widened as the room shifted around them. It was unlike anything she had seen before and it was hard to contain her own excitement. "That's amazing!"

Yuna walked over to the tea and gently picked up a cup. She lightly traced her finger along its rim curiously. "I wouldn't know how to describe mout places from my home."

She paused. "It feels real?"

"It's a thorough illusion. Most of it's done with hard light, but when real objects are necessary, they can be created from existing matter."

Billy handled a cup of his own and sipped, mostly pleased with the taste. He'd still rather have Ahim's tea again, bit it was something.

"What about an imaginary place? It doesn't have to be very specific."

"Any place then?" A small smile crept over Yuna's lips as she slowly walked around the cottage. Her fingers laced behind her back as her head tilted to the side in thought. She knew of one place she wanted to see again.

"How about a city. The buildings are so tall that you can barely see their tops. It's night but there is light everywhere. There's pathways were water moves through the sky in fantastic arcs. The city is surrounded by water like it was build on its surface."

She turned back towards Billy with an excited smile. "Would that work?"

"I believe it already is," Billy answered her, watching the countryside dissolve into the shining metropolis as described by Yuna. They were now standing on a sort-of dock, water arching above and shimmering below. Everything had an otherworldly glow, and Billy couldn't help but gape at it.

"It's amazing. Did you live in a place like this, Yuna?"

"It is a little like this. This is actually a city that was destroyed a thousand years in the past." Her smile brightened as she turned towards Billy. "I never thought I would be able to see it like this."

She walked around slowly taking in the sight of the city. "I was told that its a city that never sleeps." Yuna's voice was soft as she recalled the memories from so long ago.

"You were told in a history class?" Billy had to ask. Because she seemed to have a strong attachment to the place for only knowing it secondhand.

Well..if Billy had heard about a city like this, he probably would've remembered it too. It seemed like a technological paradise.

"Oh no." Yuna waved a hand in front of her face with a smile.

"We didn't have formal classes where I'm from. I learned because I met someone from that time period." They didn't have classes or schools in her world, it was set up as an apprentice system where someone would learn by doing and eventually take the teachers place.

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"You met someone from a thousand years before you?" Billy was impressed. Now that was something. "I thought your home wasn't all that technologically advanced. Where'd you find a time traveler?"

"Umm... well... its different. The dead have the ability to continue living on and with out a summoner they won't be able to rest." She knew it was confusing because its something that she had to explain in the past. Yuna hoped that she was explaining it clearly.

"He died, and he couldn't move on until a summoner allowed it. Got it." Or at least Billy thought he did. "So you had some spare time to catch up?"

He was picturing a scholar from this ancient past...certainly nowhere near the truth.

"Something like that. For it to work you have to have a very strong will to live or purpose." It was clear she wasn't explaining herself well and she already knew that it was something strange to begin with. There was an easier way to explain but she didn't know if she wanted to tell him that much about herself.

She walked in a semi-circle before turning back to Billy with a smile. "It only has happened a handful of times. I only know because I am a summoner as well." A summoner with out her summons.

"You're...a summoner?" That was strange. She certainly didn't look like the summoners from stories, but maybe they were simplified stereotypes. He smiled. "Sounds like the spiritual world is a lot more active there than what I'm used to. Is it tough?"

"It can be." Though as she spoke she smiled. "There is a lot of magic and spirits in my world."

She paused and laced her fingers behind her bad. "Where are you from?"

"I'm from a planet called Earth. Many of us are, it seems to be a common link with many universes," he mused aloud, glancing at his hands. "Our society was on the brink of some amazing new technology, but it didn't look as amazing as this."

No, nothing could quite match Zanarkand. "Magic wasn't really part of our world until about a year ago. We faced a hostile invasion from a sorceress, and I was among the group chosen to fight her."

He shrugged nonchalantly. There really was no point in keeping his mask a secret anymore.

"Sounds exciting. Though I think its lucky that your world hasn't had the conflict that is usually spurred with the presence of magic." She knew that there were always going to be people fighting but weapons only got more creative when they involved magic.

Yuna banished the thoughts from her mind and smiled at Billy. "Maybe you can help me practice then? I don't know what else to do while I am here, so I thought I would just practice more."

"We have more than enough conflict," he agreed with a quick nod. "But nothing that prepared me for this."

He considered her offer and nodded, quick to offer his hand. "Then that settles it. I'll gladly train with you, in the hopes that the next mission has a better ending."

"Great!" She knew that people fought, in every situation and nothing seemed to stop them. "I don't think this is the kind of thing someone can be prepared for."

Her eyes looked around them for a moment and seeing the ruins built to their glory in front of her made her a little sad.

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