Wait, wait, wait, wait— "brought to this world...?"
[ Alberto's sitting up totally straight now, attentive, a confused scowl starting to tug away at that casual smile he's worn this whole time. Yeahhh, he definitely stopped off to do this before even making it up the stairs. This is news to him. ]
So— we're not just, eh—... out-of-towners? We're out-of-worlders? Where exactly are we, anyway? I just thought— maybe, um— another city...
[ He trails off sheepishly. Like he was kidnapped or something, he'd really not wrapped his head around what caused him to suddenly find himself plummeting into the sea and arriving in an unfamiliar place without intending to... That's pretty sus, but he figured he could just figure that out later. Maybe a sea monster hunter poisoned him which made him forget what was happening, or knocked him unconscious or something, and then cast him away into the sea far away from Portorosso. He'd thought of that. He'd kind of landed on that. And in that case, there wasn't an immediate solution. Nowhere in his vast and active imagination did he consider he'd been spirited away to another world... He has no concept of outer space, or aliens, or alternate dimensions... He's a simple boy from the sea. He had no idea of the astronomical gravity of his situation here. But— he will soon... ]
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[ Alberto's sitting up totally straight now, attentive, a confused scowl starting to tug away at that casual smile he's worn this whole time. Yeahhh, he definitely stopped off to do this before even making it up the stairs. This is news to him. ]
So— we're not just, eh—... out-of-towners? We're out-of-worlders? Where exactly are we, anyway? I just thought— maybe, um— another city...
[ He trails off sheepishly. Like he was kidnapped or something, he'd really not wrapped his head around what caused him to suddenly find himself plummeting into the sea and arriving in an unfamiliar place without intending to... That's pretty sus, but he figured he could just figure that out later. Maybe a sea monster hunter poisoned him which made him forget what was happening, or knocked him unconscious or something, and then cast him away into the sea far away from Portorosso. He'd thought of that. He'd kind of landed on that. And in that case, there wasn't an immediate solution. Nowhere in his vast and active imagination did he consider he'd been spirited away to another world... He has no concept of outer space, or aliens, or alternate dimensions... He's a simple boy from the sea. He had no idea of the astronomical gravity of his situation here. But— he will soon... ]