"Oh, I don't know much about the ocean," Lust admitted. Not the same world? Brook said it so casually, as though it were so normal and reasonable. Was this...the other side of the Gate, then? She didn't know quite what lay beyond it, but from what her master had said....

It made as much sense as anything else.

"Then I'm in another world. I...I suppose I must have passed through the Gate...."

And at least she was safe from her master, beyond her grasp and reach. Though the idea of another world, one she didn't know and understand, was frightening. And she was in some manner of prison here. Prisons can be broken out of. Cultures can be learned. Don't be a silly little girl, Lust.

"It's better than being dead...."

Now she felt a true stirring of unease and fear. What had become of her?