I AM NOT LOST. To be lost, you have to know where it is you're supposed to be, and I don't even know that.

"Don't bother her. She'll wake up when she's ready."

"I know. I just feel eager to get things started."

"Of course you are..." I moved a little. My brain was slowly coming back to its conscious state. I twitched my fingers and toes, and moved my eyes behind my eyelids. 'Okay, I'm alive... I think...' I opened my eyes and looked at the ceiling. 'Where am I, though...? And who are the people talking...? Should I be worried?'

"I think she's awake! Well, at least physically!"

"Iris." A male's voice spoke with a stern tone.

"What? I didn't do anything wrong."

"You shouldn't be too loud. Her body is probably still sensitive."

"Fine..." I looked to my right and saw a blue wall with a bookshelf in it. It was filled with several books I had read and loved. 'That's creepy...' I then looked at the bed I was on. It had white blankets with black and gray patterns on it.

I finally looked to the left, and I saw two people staring at me. One was girl with long purple hair that was pulled into pigtails, and the other was a boy with short-ish brown hair. The girl was wearing lolita-esque clothing, and the boy was dressed kinda formal.

"Is your brain finally awake?" I frowned. I wasn't sure if I should trust the people with me or not.

"Who are you? Where am I?"

"You're in your room."

"I know for a fact this is not my room." The girl hit the boy on the head.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?!"

"You have to explain everything to her, first!"

"You didn't have to hit me to tell me that!"

"It worked, though." The boy sighed.

"Anyways, this technically is your room. I'll get to that in a few minutes." He sighed again. "To start off, I believe introductions are in order. My name is Murakami Tadashi, first name being Tadashi. Her name is-"

"My name is Iris Walker!" I looked back and forth between the two people for a second, and the my mouth dropped open.

"No way... YOU TWO ARE REAL HERE?! Wherever here is!"

"Yep." I grinned.

"That is so cool..." I looked at Tadashi. "You're one of my OCs..." My head turned towards Iris. "And you're my childhood imaginary friend."

"Eh, correction. Imaginary twin sister."

"Right... I was such a weird kid..." I looked at both of them. "First Traverse Town, and now this... I am so confused... How exactly is this possible?"

"Well, you're in a different world, now."

"I kinda figured that out with the whole Traverse Town craziness I went through."

"Our apologies. You were supposed to end up in this room, but I guess Mezame had other plans for you."

"Mezame? Who is that?"

"Mezame isn't exactly a who. It's more of a what. Mezame is the name of our world."

"Wait, wait, wait. So you're telling me your world chose to put me here?"

"Yes. In fact, it even copied your body from your world and added a few special features."

"Copied my body?"

"Yes. Otherwise your brain would have had no physical form to manifest in."

"So Mezame stole my brain?!"

"Yep." I wrapped my arms around myself.

"I feel violated, now. I didn't give you permission to touch my brain, Mezame!" I frowned. "Then what happened to my body back home?"

"It's still there, it's just kinda... frozen. That and the rest of your world."

"So my brain getting jacked by some other world made my entire world stop?"

"Basically."

"Lovely... What's the catch?"

"You only have a year to complete the task you were sent here for."

"There we go." I sighed. "So why am I basically in a dream world?"

"We don't know that part."

"Okay then... How are you two real?"

"We're real as long as you're here. The only difference between you and us is we're a part of this world. The world fabricated memories in its inhabitants so that we'd seem real. You, however, aren't. Not to mention we know our purpose."

"Which is?"

"To guide and care for you. We'll make sure you're prepared for everything that may happen."

"There's another catch, however. You have to seem as if you're an amnesiac. You can't act like you know where you are or that you know who the people you meet are. You're basically starting your life over as a person that was supposed to exist."

"I'm here in place of someone else?"

"Yes. Ari Walker, the daughter of Azrael Walker and Artemis Alexandra. Also, the sister of me!"

"So, I'm living someone else's life?" They nodded.

"Ari disappeared a long time ago. Luckily enough for you, no one knew what she looked like." I furrowed my eyebrows.

"You make her disappearance sound like a good thing..." I shook my head. "So, I'm guessing this was meant to be Ari's room?"

"Yes."

"Also, why is all my junk on her shelves?"

"You and her are basically the same person, except you live in two different realities. This world just assumed she'd like all the stuff you like."

"Do we have Internet, and phones, and computers, and all that other stuff we can't live without back home?"

"For the most part, yes." I grinned.

"Yay."

"And don't worry, we have journals for you."

"Journals. My precious babies that I can't write without." I sighed. "So, since I'm guessing this isn't Traverse Town... where am I now?"

"You're in *Midorijima." A wide grin spread across my face.

"Are they real?"

"Yes... And many others you'll recognize."

"This... is... awesome! I don't feel sick anymore, and I'm surrounded such awesome people. Well, at least those I've heard about so far..."

"You're in for quite a ride."

"I figured." I nodded. "I'm ready, though. I have been for as long as I can remember." Tadashi stood up.

"Then let's go." I tilted my head.

"Go where?"

"Let's go introduce you to your parents' family."

"What about my parents?"

"Mom and Dad died a few days after we were born."

"Oh... That's horrible..." Iris nodded.

"That's a story for later. I think we should go and introduce you to our world, first." I moved the blankets off of me and sighed.

"Well then... *Allons-y!"