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Virginia Swainston is lying face-down on her bed and crying. The reason is perched in the waste-paper basket (though she'll have to move it, she can't let her parents find it, oh sweet God what would they say, they'll throw her out).

That noise? That's the noise of a girl's entire life plan crashing down around her ears.

Also, it's (with somewhat tasteless irony) a bang.

...that's grass she's lying on.

Virginia jerks her head up, red-eyed, and stares around in incoherent shock.

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There's a blonde woman floating in the air above her and to the left. She's a little blurry around the edges.

She's also rolling her eyes.

"Great, another one."

The spirit gets big wide eyes of the bleary sort.

Those parts of Virginia's brain not currently taken up with angsting are trying to work out how she could have suddenly died and not realised it.

"No," says Sky, reaching down to flick Virginia's forehead.

It's like getting thwapped by a particularly bitchy breeze.

"Come on, get up and stop feeling sorry for yourself."

"...Yes'm," says Virginia, without any lessening of the amount of fear in her voice. She scrambles to her feet, staring at Sky.

For now, she's under the impression that this is some kind of divine visitation.

"Right."

She sighs and rubs her face with her hands.

"You're not where you were, this world's messed up and it brought you here instead. You can't get back. Sorry. My name's Sky."

Sky isn't the name of any angel Virginia can think of. Though, admittedly, she's not been anyone's idea of a model student. (Maybe if she had been, she wouldn't be in this mess-- don't think about that if you don't think about it it isn't happening--)

"I'm sorry, I've learned my lesson-- please let me go back--"

"You're not listening."

Sky crosses her arms.

"I didn't bring you here, and I'm not an agent of whatever did. If you'd like my help, say so. Otherwise, keep whining, and I'll go talk to someone else."

Wait, no, don't leave her here, strange bitchy spirit! Virginia doesn't cope well with random teleportation to other realities!

"Wait--"

She focuses on one of the most striking points about what she's just been told.

"--this world?"

"Uh-huh."

O_O

"This world?"

Either she thinks repeating it will make it make sense, or she's hinting that she'd like it explained. Choose wisely!

"Uh-huh. If you don't know anything about alternate universes, just keep heading that way until you find someone who does."

Yeah, Sky's going to be pointing people towards Kansas everywhere she goes. It's simpler.

Virginia keeps staring.

Perhaps Sky broke her.

Sky stares back.

If this is a contest, she'll win. Air spirits don't need to blink.

It's less a contest and more of a pause whilst Virginia attempts to line up her thoughts. They are rowdy and take a lot of lining.

"...Did I die?"

You may have a slow one, here.

Cheerfully: "Not so far as I know."

"So I'm in another world?"

...or she's dreaming. YES THAT'S IT SHE'S DREAMING.

"Mhmm."

Mildly dazed: "And where do I go, again?"

Point.

"Kansas."

"...Isn't that quite a long way?"

"Yep."

"I have to walk there?"

Let the record state that Virginia doesn't believe a word of this.

"Well, you can't fly and you don't have a car. So unless you wanna get eaten by dinosaurs, hop to it."

...dinosaurs. Oh sweet Lord. This is officially a hallucination.

Virginia wanders in a direction. Then she looks to Sky for affirmation that this is, in fact, the correct way.

Nod.

Eyeroll.

...okay then.

Virginia meanders off in a general that-way direction, still uncertain of what the hell is happening, though at least she's not complaining about it any more. Hey, kids, this is what happens when you pass through the storm of shock onto the plateau of omgwtf.

Which is Sky's cue to turn into a breeze and drift away.

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