At least it's not yet ANOTHER alter-Earth!

A place with two moons in the green sky, next to what looks to be a life size model of what the 1950s thought was to be the “House of Tomorrow”…

Dr. Ritsuko Akagi

. . .

Will sum up my thoughts about the owner’s taste in décor, wherever we’ve just popped into here. It is best described as ‘bleh!’ As bland and angular as the architecture of Tokyo-3 had been, at least it does not make we wince.

Though, it is almost if I should recognise this place from something I'd seen a long time ago. As a child, maybe?

No, can't think of it right now. Maybe it'll come to me. Not like whatever it is had to do with the few "Better Homes and Garden" magazine articles I'd skimmed.

Then again, to each their own, correct? I mean, certainly I cannot expect that customs and tastes are the same all across the muli-verse, right?

A good example of that would have been that hideous lime green outfit that one rather rude “wizarding world” reporter was wearing when she tried to force her way into that house we’d ducked into to interview us (despite our requests and the Ministry’s orders to the contrary). Still, I am happy to say that I wasn’t the only one to find her dress sense (and her manners) objectionable

“My eyes bleed” had been some of the kinder comments muttered by my companions here over the whole thing!

. . .

MY! That was so incredibly relevant to the task at hand! Pardon the slightly hysterical laughter there for a second but I find I must. I find I am still somewhat touchy right now, you see. Nothing that anything my companions did to me intentionally. Just bad memories...

I know that Reika and Lilith really did not mean anything about their complaints about their EVA Units, but it still actually hurt. When it came down to when Unit 00 blew sky high I did feel that I had somehow failed. Felt that if I'd only upgraded this one or other particular component within that thing I wouldn't have been faced with what I would have called a massive failure. Failure to NERV and those within.

And when I learned that Reika was MUCH more than a mere windup doll for the Commander? Sigh, I felt like I had not only wronged her for so long but I'd failed HER massively!

But then again thy had (rightly) pointed out that not even the most powerful EVA unit we had (Unit 01) could have done much better. Rei's analog of the Angel which got blown up by Reika's EVA was only defeated through the radical introduction of magic to the mix...

Hm, well before we go further I feel a small review of events is in order here. Just for politeness sake if nothing else?

. . .

Sigh, no let's not and say we did. Frankly, I just don't feel like it right now. Between the near arrest I, Reika, and Lilith experienced just moments earlier, the unexpected (and unwanted) idea that I may have been turned into a catgirl for the rest of my life, and the shouting that that idiot of the household did once the wizards fixed him and his family I find I'm just about done for today.

. . .

At least I guess I do not have to worry about bleaching myself blonde. That is something that'll take getting used to, let me tell you!

Just what and who will I look like when this is all said and done?!

"Lets get out of here and disguised before we draw unwanted attention to ourselves," Rei says softly, motioning us to quietly head for the forest before anyone in the house notices us.

A sentiment I wholly support, thank you! Frankly, I've had enough surprises today as it is, especially with people just popping out of thin air and shouting "Stupefy" at you for no reason...

Keep on hearing those d*mn lyrics from Disturbed that I heard Elrondir and First Lieutenant Shigeru Aoba were "jamming out" to earlier and that is SO very annoying!

What exactly what THAT supposed to have done to us? I'll ask Rei here in a moment, once we're safely away from this house and prying ears. See the neighborhood and see what the local custom and mores are to better blend in (albeit with a little bit of magical assist in the later part from Rei).

Sigh, having a competent mage in the party is SO handy if I only say so myself. I (and I dare say the G-man) wish we had more, just in case we get separated again so to avoid that fiasco from happening again we'd had with that Harry Potter business!

Moments later . . .

A puzzled older looking gentleman dressed in black clothing first looks at the remote for his domecile and then at the house in question, who's shutters seemed to have activated accidentally after that brief flickering of power in it's lighting system.

Pressing the controls again fails to get the shutters to lower and allow access.

If he was wanting to suitably impress the interlopers from that spacecraft, this was NOT the way to do it!

1. He pauses yet again, looking over his shoulder in surprise as he hears some young woman (NOT his daughter) shout in an aggravated voice: "You've got to be KIDDING ME!"

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