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[ Madoka's voice comes over the journal singing!! ]

Happy birthday to me~! Happy birthday to me~!

Happy birthday [ ........ nope too shy to go on. She cuts herself off with giggles at and is almost audibly covering her face. She still sounds pretty pleased though; ] Ah, never mind, forget that! It's too embarrassing!

But, back when everyone was still at Isla Empieza, did anyone see somewhere that might have cake? Just a small one would be fine...

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Everything I know worth knowing.

[Okay, he likes you. And that gets another laugh.] A little. To be honest, my own world has a bunch of idiot rookies coming through my ocean all the time trying to start stuff, so I suppose I should be used to it. [But he's not, because they are all pains in the butt!]

The ones who make it fun are usually worth all the rest though, eh? And you wouldn't believe how reckless my own nakama can be. [Ace. Ace, no. Stop. Come back. Eh whatever, Marco doesn't even know why he tries.] Are you at least enjoying yourself so far?

I wonder if it's like in the movies...

Yes! So far it's very fun! The ocean is really pretty to see all the time, and I'm excited for when we actually visit an island.

Movies?

[A small grin, and though it can't be seen, his tone softens even more with it.] Then you have the first two steps down. Having fun with your friends, and exploring the world.

--Oh, do they have movies where you're from?

Can't say I'm familiar with the slang. But I'm not always as up to date on these things as I'd like.

Movies are recordings - like moving pictures. So people use them to tell stories.

[He... really has to think about this for a bit.]

Like a cross between a flipbook and a video den den mushi broadcast?

A what?

Den den mushi... they are these little psychic snails that telepathically communicate with each other. With enough machinery they can also be used by people to cast transmissions over long distances.

Like the book... but with a snail.

Most of them only send faxes or audio, but a few send video.

[ w...... what........ Her response takes a minute..... and sounds really unsure.... ]

I see.

I take it your world doesn't have them?

[Even Marco is beginning to suspect his world might be a little weird by other people's standards.]

We have machines that do that. They use electricity instead of any, um, telepathy.

That sounds kind of boring. What do you do for mail? We have seagulls in my world.

Eh? Just regular cars and people deliver mail. And if needs to go far it goes on airplanes and stuff, I think.

Sorry, you've lost me again.

Cars? Airplanes?

In this case, the easiest way to explain it would be like ships for on land or in the air. They have their own power source that moves them automatically and a driver or a pilot would steer them like a ship's captain.

Ships... on land.

[GURL you so crazy.]

[Wait a thought.] Like bicycles? But what is their power source?

Um... Electricity? They have engines that power them, so if it were like a bicycle, there's basically a machine that pedals for you.

So they have batteries?

... I don't understand your world at all.

--Ah, but yes. They have batteries.

[You and everyone else, Madoka. He hasn't even mentioned the giant laser-shooting robots yet.]

That's creative. I wonder why the differences. Mah, then again, I haven't sailed all the islands yet, so I guess there could be an island with things like that.

In my world that sort of technology is all across the world. Well - I know there are some cultures that haven't picked up that sort of thing, but still, I would say it's more common than not.

I guess because most islands you can't get anywhere without sailing, yoi.

It sounds like a really interesting world. I wish I could see it.

[He thinks about it a little and grins.] Do you like this world so far?

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