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[Hello, Terminal Tokyo. It seems someone has opted for the 'start pushing buttons and see what happens' method of getting to know their D-Terminal, with the initial result being a nonsensical text message. A moment later, though, the audio cuts in, with a little girl's voice coming over the airwaves.]

-nk I got it to do something! Did that message just get sent? [slight pause] Oh wait, it's sending now! I think...? Wasn't there supposed to be pictures too?

[There's the faint sound of a few more buttons being pressed before a second voice pipes up, also sounding young and female, its tone fondly amused.]

Here, let me.

[A moment later, the video turns on, showing Terminal Tokyo a close up of the smiling face of a Salamon, who seems to be the owner of the second voice.]

There we go.

[The Salamon moves out of the way and the owner of the first voice can finally be seen, a little girl with big orange eyes and a face that's two-tone tan, as well as oddly soft-looking. The girl's face is framed by what looks like equally two-toned hair, mostly red with a broad purple stripe, that's pulled back into a short pony tail atop her head. Those looking closely might notice a few oddities, like the fact that her eyes have slit pupils, rather than round, and that a set of tiny fangs can be glimpsed in her mouth when she speaks.]

Thanks! So... um... hi, everyone. [waves to the camera with a bit of an uncertain smile] First of all, I'm Wily-Kit, and this's my partner, Emerick.

[She briefly turns the camera back on the Salamon, who waves a fore-paw, before turning it back on herself.]

Second... um... does anybody know where I can get a winter cloak, or something? I'm not really dressed for the weather around here...

[Skilled observers of backgrounds will notice that she's still in the main terminal building, apparently having opted to stay there for the moment rather than trying to find her way to her apartment in the cold, so anyone who wants to find her can do so there.]

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The rock monster could do that too. Well, I mean, there was only one of him, but when the other Thundercats tried to smash him, he just came right back together again. Then he magicked up a big box made of rocks to trap them in so they couldn't try it again and went right back to trying to eat the Elephant village.

But then, I played my flupe and my friend Aburn and the other elephants joined in and we played a note that made him crumble into little pieces and saved everybody!

[She's clearly very proud of that.]

Aburn said we could do it because we achieved perfect harmony, and that's a beautiful and powerful thing.

[She nods sagely, though it's pretty obvious that she's quoting her friend rather than using her own words.]

(Kit, you've piqued Rainbow's interest somehow.)

Really? Sweet~! What's a flupe? Is it some kind of musical instrument? It sounds awesome! Is it hard to play?

This is a flupe.

[She pulls out the ring-shaped instrument and holds it up so Dash can see it.]

Back home, It's not hard to play once you know how, but it can take awhile to learn. It takes a lot of practice.

Back home, it used to have some magic to it too; I could play it an put people into a trance, or even put them to sleep if I wanted, though the sleep thing usually only worked on pets and things. Emerick told me that won't work here, though, so now it's just a regular flupe.

Awesome~! Can you play something right now?

(As far as she can tell, it's just a ring similar to a horseshoes game she and Applejack once played but Rainbow's certain Kit's instrument is more than that, even without magic.)

Sure!

[Kit sets the D-Terminal down in her lap, since the flupe takes both hands to play. At this new angle, Dash can probably see the various finger holes and things on the flupe, but the instrument's appearance becomes immaterial once Kit puts it to her lips and begins to play.]

(Dash did indeed notice the finger holes and the other parts about the flupe, but listened intently as Kit played and waited until she was done before saying anything.)

That...was AWESOME! You were so good! You could be a natural at this! You trained how long with that instrument?

[Kit smiles... and blushes a little at Dash's enthusiastic praise. Clearly she's not used to it.]

Hehe... thanks!

And it's been a few years now. It was a present our parents got for for me after I gave my lion doll to my little sister. They were proud of me, and wanted me to have something to play with too.

...Do you really think I'm that good?

Sure! That was some awesome flupe playing you did there, even if it doesn't have it's magical abilities. But, if you wanna know the truth: I think your flupe still has it's powers; you just can't use 'em while we're here.

Yeah, that's what I think too. Magic things don't just... stop being magical, after all.

[At least she doesn't think so.]

Wish I knew what it was about this place that makes it not work, though.

Probably 'cause anything magical's left up to the Digimon who run the place and they don't wanna be showed up by our kind of power. Might also be why anyone who's not human get turned into one. Ha, except for certain parts.

(Also something to run by Twilight later, if she wanted to try following up on it. Rainbow was hinting at not just her wings, but Kit's tail as well.)

Maybe. For some of us, it might make it so we didn't need our partners to get along here.

[pause]

Huh... ya know, maybe that's why. Maybe this world wants us to learn how to work together with our partners instead of just trying to do stuff ourselves all the time.

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