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Anthy is sitting at a small round table, with a cup of tea and a bowl of soup in front of her. She's knitting something small and green, slowly, and watching the rest of the bar.

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Iris shrugs stiffly. "It looks like it. I mean, I can open the door but I can't go home. Home's...not there. Not sure what that means yet."

She watches Anthy unravel the yarn. "I can't say I've heard of Ohtori Academy but I've been to Japan."

"Oh? Have you been to Houou, maybe? That's where it is."

She goes back to knitting, and looks up again. "We do have sister schools. There may be one in Paris." A pause. "Have you met Meg?"

"I've ran through it once. Didn't really look around though. Back home, I was a champion. Well, a crimefighter."

Insert anything less corny than superhero here. Iris gives up on trying to sound less than ridiculous.

"Mostly I can move and fight at accelerated rates."

Iris considers this for half a second then shakes her head. "Paris I also tend to just zoom through. Well, when I'm not saving people. I haven't met anyone named Meg yet. I'd remember if I had."

With a funny smile: "A hero?"

She adds, "Meg is from Paris. She's . . . very from Paris. You probably would."

Iris facepalms. "Yeah. A hero." Too bad her brain doesn't work at accelerated levels.

She chuckles. "Very from Paris?"

"How lovely," Anthy says vaguely. A pause. "Very . . ."

Anthy doesn't do that "articulate" thing. She has a note.

"Well, she'll be glad to meet someone else from Paris," she concludes.

"Hm?"

Iris chuckles. "Oh, I'm not...well...technically I am since I was in Paris when I found a door to here. But really I'm from Kansas."

"Kansas. Oh." Anthy blinks. "Yes. I don't think she's as fond of Kansas . . . where's that?"

"Kansas is in the US. I lived--live in Keystone City."

"Keystone City . . . I don't think I've heard of it," Anthy says, after a moment. "What's Kansas like?"

"My father protects both Keystone City and Central City from various bad-guys." She shrugs. "He never believed I'd be a good hero."

"Kansas is very dull. Lots of cornfields and deranged minds."

"I'm sorry," Anthy says, automatically, and then:

"Deranged minds?"

Kansas sounds like Anthy's kind of place.

Iris shrugs again. "It's his way."

She nods. "At least in the area I live in. There's always some weirdo popping out of nowhere with a ridiculous problem who decides to cause pain and suffering for the rest of us. I keep waiting for someone to become a villain after losing his contact lense."

Which she might very well miss if she's stuck here for very long.

"Or a wooden leaf," Anthy says absently. "Sometimes little things are important to people. It's not the thing itself."

A wooden leaf? But the rest of what Anthy says makes a certain amount of sense.

So Iris nods slightly. "It's what the thing represents."

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