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No, you look pretty normal, you don't have a jetpack like that other guy or anything like that.

T-There's someone here with a jetpack?

I guess I must look pretty dull compared to something like that.

Yeah. He said something about a giant robot lion too, but I'm not buying that crap.

[There's a line and things like that clearly cross it. Never mind that she's seen some pretty crazy stuff, that's just too ridiculous for her. And he wanted to talk about that first because she's not really sure how to handle that remark about looking dull. Mordred really doesn't deal with normal people much.]

And I don't know about dull, but it's probably not so bad being normal? If whatever brought us here shows up, you can just relax and let us deal with it until it sends everybody back home.

[She thinks she handled that well. She probably didn't, or at least not as well as she thinks she did.]

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Oh wow. That all sounds pretty exciting. The only lions I've ever known about are the... normal ones?

[Monika thinks about it for a moment.]

But I don't know if I would feel right if I just let everyone else put themselves in danger like that. I'd still like to be to help, somehow!

Makes sense, you don't really strike me as the type to have run into a chimera or something else like that.

[She'll be tactful enough to leave out the "because you'd be dead" that she feels would be the natural conclusion to something like that happening.]

And hey, don't worry about it. Some of us are used to it.

[She can't even count how many times she's put herself in danger. But it's a high number.]

You could help though if you could fight? Or heal? Or if you've got any survival skills, Somebody's bound to do something stupid out there, so it'd be good if somebody showed them how to not end up dead.

[These are definitely things Mordred considers valuable skills when transported to some strange new world. Even if there's no real reason to have fighters or anything yet, she's pretty sure some sort of monster or jerk'll show up and they'll have to do something about it. But there's another skill she thinks would come in handy, so she'll mention that one as well.]

Or if you can cook. That's important too.

[She is completely serious about this.]

Ahaha...

[Monika just laughs nervously.]

I can at least cook!

[Maybe? Probably?]

I don't really have any sort of medical training, and I'm in pretty good shape, too. But I don't know if that really counts as good in a fight.

I really am kind of useless here, huh?

Look, so long as you know how to do things besides mash the ingredients up, I'm not going to complain.

[Mordred really doesn't like the sound of that nervous laugh, but she can't be worse than Gawain. Not that Mordred ever ate with the other knights, kind of hard to when she was told not to remove her helmet around anyone, but she's heard stories.]

Being useless probably isn't so bad though. Lots of people are useless and they seem to get through life okay.

[She wouldn't really know, it's not something that's every really crossed her mind before today.]

I guess you're right about that. Still, I'd rather not be that kind of person.

Being useless may not be so bad, but I'd much rather be useful. You know? I want to be able to contribute and pull my own weight!

Must be because I've always felt that way.

...yeah, kind of.

[More than kind of, but once upon a time, she wanted to be useful and be a good knight to the King, and then some stuff happened. So she definitely knows what that's like even if she won't completely own up to it.]

Then just do what you can, and work on doing more. I guess?

[She looks about as unsure as she sounds since she has no idea what this girl would even take to, so she can't really suggest what more would be. And not everybody's her that can take to being a knight like a fish to water.]

Might be obvious, but I'm not really good at talking to people about things like this. Don't have a lot of practice with it.

[Which is something she might want to think about for if...no when she gets to draw that stupid sword and become King. Get better at encouraging people and helping them find direction. Or get someone who's good at doing that. That works too.]

That's okay! I really appreciate that you're even talking to me like this. And it says a lot that it's taking you out of your comfort zone, too.

You know what they say: practice makes perfect!

[Throughout all of this, Monika continues to maintain both a cheerful attitude and a healthy outlook.]

And I'm willing to think that's going to be true for everyone here, including me.

So in a way, we're starting out the same, ahaha.

[She honestly has no idea how Monika can be so upbeat and cheerful in this face of all this nonsense. But she's never really gotten why people can be like that. Some people just are, she guesses. Monika, that Rider back home, she's not going to try and figure that one out either.]

You're probably on to something here. I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable kicking the crap out of whatever brought us here instead of dealing with all this.

[That's apparently her comfort zone.]

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[It's all a matter of perspective!

Or maybe she just doesn't think that any of her actions have consequences, t h e r e f o r e . . . ]

Not really an "ask questions first" kind of person, are you?

The hell kind of questions would I even ask someone like that?

[Her assessment's not wrong though. Mordred's definitely not the type to ask things first.]

Maybe, how, or why they brought us here.

Or even the way out!

Trust me, I get my hands on them, they'll be giving us all that information. Probably won't even have to ask.

[Goodness, that's... violent!]

I'll take your word for it!

And that just makes me even more glad that I'm not on your bad side.

[She shrugs her shoulders at that.]

Normal people don't really get on my bad side.

[The ones that did in Camelot ended up dead, but that was her following orders. Other than that, she doesn't really vent her anger at normal people. She's going to be King someday, so those are her future subjects and she should treat them fairly! Or try to at least.]

Whatever brought us here though, that's on my bad side because no way in hell is it anything normal.

I'd agree with you there. I really wonder what it is that brought us here.

Beats me, I've a list of what it's probably not, but that helps less than you'd think.

[Turns out she actually doesn't know that much about things that can do something like this. She wasn't terribly happy when she realized this and still isn't.]

At least it shows that you're organized! A list can be more helpful than you think!

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[Organized, that's a good one.]

Probably help more if I actually wrote it down.

[... Oh.

Well, you tried, Mordred.]

Ahaha, you'd be right about that.

I'm not usually the one who makes stuff like that. It's usually someone else's job.

[Her Master's. And then in Camelot, Agravain's. You'd think a knight would hate paperwork, but Agravain was like an office worker born centuries too soon.]

I could do that for you here, if you'd like! I ran a club back in school, so I'm actually pretty good at keeping myself organized.

And everyone else, too!

There you go, that's something useful.

[Like a squire or something, except Mordred doesn't volunteer that so the other log doesn't create a time paradox.]

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