#I didn't need to list some of the common mobs but I thought it'd be funny

[wifeysaremylifey]

Red waited with bated breath. It felt normal enough for the other to be re-orienting herself when she displayed all signals that Red's interjection had caught her off-guard. But when the answer came, it was different from what she expected.

"Oh! Of course, I at least know that much," she went on to say, putting a hand to her hips and looking off into the distant trees. "This is Virtua Forest, and we're a bit west of Planeptune's main city! You can definitely see where it is if you walk towards that rocky area over there."

Red wasn't a stranger to just jump in head-first onto places and turn out in locations she'd never been to before (or even in a different dimension that one time), but it never bothered her to be far away from home when she knew there would have to be a way to go back if she searched hard enough. But now her empathy for the stranger was making her consider that this might not be the case to everyone else.

It caused her to promptly step up and put herself at service. Just the kind of service a star-crossed lover would offer unconditionally to their person of affection, she thought.

"But wait! If you're lost, I gotta do something about that! Virtua Forest's close to civilization, but there's still monsters, tulips, horsebirds and real gamers about! And they can be annoying or even dangerous to deal with- but they're easy-peasy for me, of course!"

"Let me go with you, Zena! I can help you get back or find out where you might have been going in the first place! And I thiiiiink I'm well-traveled enough to know places by description alone! I've been to all 4 big cities of Gamindustri- and a lot of smaller places too! Sooo... why don't you tell me a bit about your home?"

Well, Zena at least gained from the following interactions that the other undeniably meant no harm, and found herself a bit more at ease, at least able to tell rather certainly that this RED was an honest sort. " RED, is it? W-Well, it's nice to meet you, then... "

Of course, as well a thought as that was, it did little to change that she was rather lost in the scene, with the girl's following questions only bringing Zena further aback.

" Ah - n-no, I... " She stumbles a bit keeping up with RED's miniature barrage of questions, centered around the one idea: that she was native here, and pondering accordingly. She certainly knew what a guild was, and she'd met more than a few adventurers in her journey, but of course that was hardly why she was here. In fact - gazing around, despite the simple greens of the surrounding environment, it felt... off. The usual flow of mana that ensured life across Grastaea felt stagnant in this world - perhaps, even, not truly there at all. As one who held a position harbored to it once, the lack of it made everything feel different, even despite little to spell it outright.

Had she even returned to Grastaea? In... any form...?

" Truth be told, I... believe I may be lost, RED. Am I... or, rather, could you perhaps tell me where I am, at this time? "