"I've come to a conclusion," Serena announced as she felt her mind slip over to the foggy realm of semi-consciousness. "I'm an alien."

"You are?" His lack of surprise doesn't surprise her anymore. If she came to Reiji with proof that reality was nothing but the dream of a little overexcited boy before his first day at school, he would simply nod his head thoughtfully before returning to his previous task.

"Yep."

"Since your biology isn't any different from a Standard human's, most wouldn't classify you as an alien."

"Well I am," She rested her chin on the midpoint of his chest. "Believe me, this has been decided after gathering as much evidence as possible."

"I'm sure it was," She feels his words more than she actually hears them. Quiet vibrations against her skin. It seems he's barely half-awake as well, for it's only these brief periods that every aspect of him isn't so neat and well put-together.

"What makes people from the other dimension, aliens?"

"They're not. I'm the only one."

"How is that so?"

Because even after all these years, I'm always a second behind the conversation. Because I can never laugh so casually, I can never understand people as naturally as others do. Society is nothing but a fierce monster waiting to devour me if I make the tiniest of mistakes.

"I'm the only one to have grown up in a world as distant as mine. Leo kept me in a gilded cage made up of nothing but silks and lies and practically erased all my memories of an outside world. Even the other child soldiers had a better grasp of reality than I did."

She would have mistaken him for asleep if it wasn't for the way he rubbed smooth circles into her skin with his thumb. That was always the way he thought, eyes closes and hands fidgeting with whatever was closest.

"If we use that line of logic, I guess I might be extraterrestrial as well."

"You?" Reiji always seemed in his element, always seemed ready with a plan and cool despite the chaos.

"Society is a stranger to me as well. Nobody but me seems to understand the logical thing to do-" Usually she would roll her eyes at such claims, but in this dreamy land, Reiji was always prone to rambling without even understanding the words he said. It was the only time his words and thoughts got to be as messy and disorganized as her's usually were. "-not to mention according to the laws of society, I should be doing vastly different things with a girl, when she is half-naked and in my bed."

Serena blinked twice at that sudden shift in conversation. She had hardly thought anything about their situation. He had just always provided this sense of familiarity that hardly needed any explanation or restraint for her behavior.

"Are you saying you want to…"

"No. I have no interest in doing so."

"Neither do I," Serena sighed. "Does that mean we are both aliens?"

"Not unless you want us to be…" She could hear the sleeping catching up on him, ready to steal him away without a moment's notice.

"That might be nice," She yawned, feeling herself drift into dreamland as well. For all that confused her, there might be someone she understood.