[indent][b][u]New Year's Day, 2026
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[color=orchid]”Err, you don’t need to bow or anything,”[/color] she said, waving her hand. She seemed rather taken aback by his barrage of questions, and didn’t quite seem to know where to start in answering them. [color=orchid]”I guess it’s not surprising that you’d be [i]really[/i] confused after everything that happened.”[/color]

Raising her hand, Josh’s eye would be drawn to a bright flash behind him. A screen now displayed him as he was just before his confrontation with the Titan, standing amidst the ruins of downtown Los Angeles. A shadowed loomed over him, and in a blinding flash of motion, his torso was ripped from the lower part of his body, which slumped over pathetically.

[color=orchid]”...Yeah, you had an accident,”[/color] explained Arcana, gesturing at the screen. [color=orchid]”Harris found you laying there after the war ended, and--shockingly--you [i]weren’t[/i] completely dead! Just mostly. He asked me to take you back to the Rock, where I’ve been watching over you for the past five years.”[/color]