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Who: Serah & Lightning
Where: Academia, during the event.
When: Early evening. possibly.
Why: Lightning wants to find her sister!

Serah decided to wait by the largest building which was right where the Academy was located, she had seen a shadow there of some sort and investigated but saw nothing there. Something seemed incredibly wrong about this situation, it was cloudy, no bright sun and no bright blue sky.

She was actually more bothered by the idea that they might be in the Void Beyond but a version of Academia that was there. It didn't seem broken but empty if anything, but she hadn't started looking around yet. The pink-haired girl followed to the front of the Academy, she set down and leaned against the door with her head tilted up. Each moment was longer than the last, she knew well enough that she should have died but something happened that didn't set well with her.

She remembered Noel holding onto her body, she remembered his scream but she couldn't respond until this moment.

Sigh.

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The entire situation was enough to frustrate her. She had woken up, perched so precariously on the throne she knew so well..but it wasn't Valhalla. She knew it as the Void Beyond. She had stumbled her way through the ruined void, dizzy and disorientated until she found what she was looking for.

Her exit.

As she stepped out onto the streets of Academia it took her a moment for it to really sink in, it was just as dark as The Void. Lightning set her jaw and walked forward, locate Serah first. Worry about everything else later. As she quickened her pace with that goal in mind, eyes scanning the ghostly streets she couldn't help but wonder how many people had exactly been pulled to this...place, this world? What had happened after she had done what she did?

Was this a consequence, or was she really just dreaming? She sighed and shook her head. There too many questions whose answers evaded her. Rounding a corner she caught sight of her sister, thoughts put on halt she jogged across the long bridge towards the younger woman.

"Serah!"

Serah kept to her word and stayed right where she was, she couldn't believe that she'd get to see Lightning again. This was her family, she remembered when Lightning told her that things would be happening one step at a time and this was definitely that. It took her a long time to appear and she even thought, under distress that she might not appear.

She didn't want to be who she was before, waiting for things to happen. There was an itch to find Lightning before she could be found herself but Academia is so large of a place that if one were to leave it would be difficult to find them again. The pink-haired girl stayed in the same spot but she wondered...

For all that happened, she remembered that Noel was here too but he was not anywhere, it worried her.

In the wake of her worrying, she heard Lightning's voice and spun around, jogging just as quickly to her. Once she was there, Serah spent no time in wrapping her arms around Lightning in a tight, squeezing hug that the two could finally share after so long.

"...Lightning, I can't believe that it's really you. It is you isn't it?" Serah, after her vision, had some doubts.

Academia was a dizzying city, all tall buildings and maze like alleyways. It was certainly hard to find one's way, but Lightning was never one to let something like this deter her. Hence her calmly working her way through the maze to get to where she was now.

She slowed in her jog as Serah jogged up to her and wrapped her arms around her. Once again the thought of this all being a dream hit her and she had to, yet again, banish it. Lightning hugged her back, just happy to see her again. It didn't matter if it was a dream or reality, her sister was okay.

The question threw her off and she pulled back from the embrace, almost laughing. As far as she was aware she was still the same person she'd always been, but, she could understand Serah's doubts.

"Of course it's me." She replied, a small frown tugging at the corner of her lips.

Sarah wanted to make sure that she was not the fake Lightning this time around and it wasn't a dream world. A bright smile swept across her face like a smooth Pulse breeze, she couldn't help but be elated that she was able to get her one family member back. The only person missing was Snow, she wished she knew where he was at.

"I'm so deeply happy to see you but I wonder how is this possible? Caius told us what happened to you and I had that vision but I never saw you again." She looked over to where there should have been ships in the Sky but there were none, just gloom above them but certainly not a black sky.

It was very similar to Valhalla.

She was real, or as real as she could been given what she last remembered happening. She wasn't going to tell Serah that, though..it was easier for her to just pretend what happened didn't.

"...I don't know, Serah." She replied, her gaze following Serah's. It was truly reminiscent of Valhalla. Which brought all those questions she had been ignoring back. She was going to find a place for them to bunker down for the moment...

And she was going to try and find some answers.

Serah seemed pleased, but worried about the other three that her adventure revolved around. Of course, she wondered if she was sure Noel, Yeul and Caius were even still in existence. A part of her wondered if their existence had been erased to some extent.

She softened her face when she thought of them,"Hey Lightning...have you seen any of them..? Noel and Caius, I mean." She moved her arms behind her back to stretch a little bit before crossing them over her chest in thought. The thought that the three of them just disappeared was uncomforting for her.

Lightning's good mood vanished at the mention of Caius, she'd be content to never see him again. She'd killed him, after all...then again with all the paradoxes who knew if he was really dead. She'd just have to kill him again if he came here.

She shrugged a shoulder, tilting her had slightly. "No. I haven't seen either of them." She'd like a break from her never ending war, just for a while.

Serah noticed what was left of her good mood vanished but she wanted to talk about the things that were out of place. There was a solitary silence for a moment between the two sisters until she felt like she needed to bring up the problem she was concerned about,"I want to know..something..Caius said that you were dead. When we came back to Academia, I didn't find you there for some reason..."

The pink-haired girl looked at the floating moogle that was near her, she smiled slightly.