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Pen' was just going to go practice singing. (She likes singing. The words are all lined up for her already and she doesn't get them wrong.) But this doesn't look like the practice room. So it's probably the magic restaurant.
Pen knows about the magic restaurant! You can go in it, and get food or things to drink (she has bracelets!) and then you just go back out the door and it's been no time at all and you're right where you went in.
She goes in. She is going to have cake.
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campanas
"Thanks," he says, accepting it. "What's your name? I'm John."
"Nice to meet you," says John.
campanas
"Yes!" agrees Peninnah. "I meet so many of the people, yesterday. Now you!"
"Milliways is nice like that."
"Definitely the nicest I've been to," he says.
"And where are your mommy and daddy right now?"
"Seems reasonable."
He finishes his Coke; he takes a look around the bar, savouring the moment; he gets up.
"I should get back to work," he says with a sigh. "Nice talking to you, Pen."
And he heads for the door.
He finishes his Coke; he takes a look around the bar, savouring the moment; he gets up.
"I should get back to work," he says with a sigh. "Nice talking to you, Pen."
And he heads for the door.
campanas
Pen gets some milk, and drinks it, and then goes to the door too. Huh, it's still a little open.
She opens it up, peering over her shoulder as she does for a last look at the nice bar, and then she's through and it closes properly this time.
She opens it up, peering over her shoulder as she does for a last look at the nice bar, and then she's through and it closes properly this time.
This is definitely not the same place she left. It's a deserted street in an unfamiliar city, under a cloudy predawn sky, and the door that just closed belongs to a small office tower.
campanas
That's not how it's supposed to work.
She turns back to the door and pulls on it.
It is locked.
campanas
That's really not how it's supposed to work.
Pen tries to brainphone Mommy.
She tries to brainphone Daddy.
She tries to brainphone Jane.
She tries her sisters and all the grownups she knows.
It doesn't work.
Gosh.
She tries to find an alt of Mommy, and that doesn't work.
She tries to find an alt of Daddy.
[Hi?]
Pen tries to brainphone Mommy.
She tries to brainphone Daddy.
She tries to brainphone Jane.
She tries her sisters and all the grownups she knows.
It doesn't work.
Gosh.
She tries to find an alt of Mommy, and that doesn't work.
She tries to find an alt of Daddy.
[Hi?]
campanas
[By door.] She looks around for landmarks. [It not working. Supposed to home, but here!]
manofmyword
There are street signs at a nearby intersection: Seneca and Claude.
[Where's home, then?]
[Where's home, then?]
campanas
[The Eyrie. Sign says 'Seneca' and other is 'Claude'? Green sign.]