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It's something you prepare for. You know it's coming. It's rather like a hurricane, something you batton down the hatches for, lock the doors, enhance the wards.

However, there's sometimes little differences than practice compared to actually experiancing it. You can know about it all you want, but unknown factors can come into play and flip the chessboard away and scatter the pieces to the wind.

Continuing the analogy, this mixes the pieces with the other games. Some might land in the Chinese Checkers, others may land in the monopoly box. And still others elsewhere.

Of course, those that were closest together tend to stay together. The Queen, the King, and the Rook, on one side, for example, can all land on a different world entirely.

One that's a lesser path of resistance, but not the least.

This was to say, that Altalita's shop merely appeared on the world known as Hollow Bastion--or as it was in the past, and more recently, Radiant Garden. It took over an empty lot, as if it had always been there. And why not? Hadn't it always been there?

Of course, the "Pieces" themselves don't come through unscathed. Altalita herself is younger. Ten years old at best. Short and teeny, pale, and possessing the longest and best black hair ever.

Then, we take Li. Oh, gods. Now that's going to be complicated...

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Li is... well. Not really Li.

In fact, he's not quite sure who he is right now. He has somehow gotten even shorter, and he finds that he is wearing silk robes so long and voluminous that he's not really sure how he's expected to walk around at all.

And then there's the issue of his memories.

Well. One thing's for certain: he's not surprised. In fact, that's the first thing he says as he looks around: "... I knew this would happen."

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The shop itself is largely the same as it should be, although it, too, didn't go through completely unscathed, as it's adapted to the new home of Hollow Bastion. This means, of course, there are the occasional bright orange steam pipes where there really shouldn't freakin' be any.

"..." We have Altalita, who blinks twice. "..I knew it would happen--I PREPARED FOR THIS, what the heck went WRONG?"

The fact that Li is now Clow will be addressed momentarily.

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"Well, first, technically, there's the issue that you knew that it would happen. You should of course be aware that you can't go and prevent things that you know are going to happen. If you could do that, you'd be breaking the timestream.

"Secondly..." pause. "I don't know why there's a 'secondly' there; I really didn't have anything else to say."

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"No, but I could PREPARE and minimize the DAMAGE." She huffs, haughty and irritated, folding her arms with a sort of irritated sound.

The sad part is? This is the minimized damage. "..And why do you always have to be right?" Clow gets a glare that only a ten year old girl can give.

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"Because I'm ~brilliant~." Modest, too. And he returns that look with a smile so cute that it could only come from a ten-year-old boy.

"Alta-chan is cute, ne~?"

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"CLOW-SAN." Is the familiar voice of the Black Mokona from behind Clow--as at any age, it can recognize him anywhere.

And, he's pounced from behind by what is most decidedly NOT a cross between a rabbit and a dumpling.

...

In fact, it's closer to a cross between a penguin and a dumpling. Although a Penguin making the |3 face is kind-of odd to see.

Altalita just.. blinks at this. "..." And facepalms.

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"Larg~! ♥" Oh, Larg gets teh cuddlez. Also, the ADDs. "... That's my name? Yes, it is. Hey, you look like a penguin!"

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Mokona Larg just blinks at Clow, "I was not always a penguin?" Birdy headtilt and blink. How he's wearing the earring is a mystery of the universe, but he's got the gem in his forehead like he's supposed to and everything. "Clow-san is teeny."

"..Well, it hasn't changed his personality much." :| She puts her hands on her hips, standing still tall and haughty, because damn it, this is still her shop.

A beat of this. "...Oh. The Twins." Her eyes widen a moment, "They're the shop's wards. We need to make sure they're still alive." O_O!

And with that said, she dashes off, better follow her, Clow!