Lotus in Bensaylum
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Google is great! She is probably going to have to learn English to use it to its full potential - She doesn't have English writing but she can try saying words with tongues active and then trying to spell them out phonetically. It's slow but it mostly works.

She finds Wikipedia. She'll be at that until something interrupts her.

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People mostly don't interrupt her. Will she notice when she gets hungry?

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She does not.

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Then she can use the Internet until the sun goes down, at least.

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Sometime after sundown she does notice that a combination of dehydration, hunger, and LED displays have given her quite the headache. "Ow."

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"You okay?"

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"...Is it nighttime already or did something weird happen with time and/or space again? Don't answer that, the answer is that nothing is magical here except for the magic and I just spent twelvish hours learning how refrigerators work. Among other things." She starts opening and closing cabinets - "I need water, where are the cups? Nevermind, found them." She pours herself a glass of water, downs it - "I don't suppose modern medicine has a convenient headache cure?" She is talking really fast.

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"...There's aspirin."

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"Do you have any? This is worse than with books, I bet it's something about the LED screen, if I was staring at the sun for twelve hours I'd have a hell of a headache." She downs more water.

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"Yeah I can go grab some." She comes back after a moment with a bottle of little pills.

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"Thankyou"  she squints at the directions, takes one, screws her eyes shut, shakes her head. Another glass of water. She looks back at the laptop and closes it reluctantly.

"It says to take with food, are there things in the - fridge - that I may eat?"

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"Yeah, sure, anything without someone's name on it."

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"Thanks." She grabs some things from the fridge that have no names on them, makes a sandwich. Takes a bite. Frowns. "Figuring out what everything here tastes like and what goes together should not be a priority." She eats the rest of her sandwich.

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"What did you put on that sandwich?"

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"Pickles, pastrami, ketchup, peanut butter, cheese - there were a lot of different cheeses, I picked two - tobasco sauce."

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"Oh. Yeah, that's--yeah."

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"I will be a bit less adventurous next time. One new ingredient at a time. What do you usually do all day? I meant to find that out through observation but I may have been a bit distracted."

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"I take online classes."

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"Oh, what in?"

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"Library science!"

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"I love that this world has so much knowledge commonly available that there's an entire discipline devoted to organizing it."

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"...Do you not have libraries?"

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"Not public ones. Private collections, sometimes associated with a school, but usually each collection is organized differently. There's certainly no formal field of 'library science' and I'd be surprised if there was much of an informal one."

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"Wow. That's awful."

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"The place has worse features."

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