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[After having seen what he thought might be an airship from the Balamb Garden view looking down on Balamb Town, Vaan enters town, intent on finding the airship and examining it.]

[Unfortunately, Vaan only finds himself in front of the train station, with a man selling stupid trinkets to tourists, trying to make him buy fertility beads or a big turquoise fish head hat. A real best-seller.]

Nghh… this is going all wrong…

[Vaan sounds pitiful, his voice tinged with obvious disappointment. Sprawled out on the steps, he watches the daily happenings in front of him. He has maybe a hour or so before he needs to get back to the Garden.]

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I'm Vaan. Good to meet you too.

A lot of us just stick to the Garden, huh? [Vaan hasn't seen anyone he knows in town so far.]

I guess so. I think it's a bit of a refresher to be out, though. [ To emphasize this point, Chie begins to stretch. ]

Yeah, anything is better then those cramped classrooms. I don't get why anyone would want to stick around there.

Heh. Guess you're not much of a classroom type of guy, too, huh?

No way. I'm more interested in seeing what's around this place.

[Vaan tilts his head up towards the sign above him.]

Have you ridden the train yet? [He points to the sign to emphasize his question.]

[ She follows his hand, then shakes her head. ]

Nope. Actually, I didn't see that until now!

I haven't ridden it yet either. I'm not totally sure where it goes.

Hm... Now you've got me curious. You think there's enough time to check it out?

Probably. I bet they have the schedule up or something, at least.

[Vaan pops up from his seat on the steps, coming more alive at the thought of exploring. He spent so much time earlier on looking for airships that he'd completely overlooked everything else.]

[He leads the way in.]

[ Chie follows, glancing at the sights all around her. Thinking about it, maybe the reason why this town is so small is to accommodate the train. Because the trains she's seeing right now? ]

Whoa. Those... Those are huge!

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[The train station looks way more advanced than Vaan expected, considering the rest of the town.]

I was expecting like one old thing!

[ And the young ones gape and chatter amongst themselves in awe. ]

Yeah! This is... totally different from the rest of the town.

It's like.... [He gestures with his hands to indicate 'huge'.] I want to look inside it too!

[He waves Chie over to follow him. There's a ticket man eyeing them from a few feet away.]

The sign says it's going to Galbadia.

[ Galbadia. Galbadia? Galbadia... where did she hear that name from? Her face scrunches up in concentration, but she blinks, seeing him motion for her to follow him and she does. Maybe going there will jog her memory. ]

Oh, wait! Shouldn't we get a ticket?

Isn't Galbadia far away or something? It might be too far to get back on time?

[Vaan isn't really sure. He remembers seeing something in the student newspaper about Galbadia, but he stopped reading that article pretty quickly. Or maybe someone was talking about it?]

[ Snap, she almost forgot about that. ]

Yeah, it could be... [ Frowning now. She really wants to take a spin on the train, but being late to thee Garden... ]

Maybe... some other time?

[It was a mistake mentioning the time, but it would probably be a jerk thing to do, getting someone else in trouble over a train ride.]

[Leaving now seemed disappointing though.]

We should go anyway. We could say we got lost?

[ She blinks. He's suggesting they... go with it? She flips the idea over and over in her head for a moment. ]

We are foreigners, after all...

We don't know what we're doing.

We thought Galbadia was a 10 minute trip. I heard that somewhere.

[Totally psyching himself up for the adventure.]

[ And Chie is nodding with him on those ideas. Yup, she's just as excited as he is. ]

We should go get those tickets. They're calling!

You actually want to buy them? [Vaan holds his hand up to his mouth, covering, as he asks. Looking over again though, the same guy is still staring at them. Maybe... not the best time...]

Okay, okay. Nevermind. Let's go get the tickets.

[Vaan darts for the window, like it's a race.]

[ She goes after him, more because she doesn't want to be left behind than actually seeing competition on who gets to the ticket guy first. Besides, the guy is staring at them weird.

[ Once they get there, she searches around in her pockets for the money she received from her sponsorship. ]

Uh, how much is this?

[For once Vaan uses his head and reads a sign near the ticket window.]

Three... thousand. gil.

[ Sheesh, talk about prices. Then again, in her head, she almost equates this to Japan's currency. But before she takes out her amount, glances back at Vaan. ]

You have enough money?

[Vaan's face is saying it all.]

No.

That's a lot of gil. What about you?

[He just automatically knows. Three thousand of anything? Don't have it.]