Miranda gets lost in an IKEA
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He passes it over.

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She puts pill and paper neatly back in the vial and wears it as a necklace. "Thanks. So I'm guessing it's a waste of time to continue talking about the building that used to be a library."

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"I think so, but it might be worth recording the conversation we already had. Any new behavior of an existing skip is potentially valuable."

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"I don't think I can remember it in transcript-quality detail, not having taken notes at the time, and I'm much more confident you can't."

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"It doesn't need to be transcript quality to be useful."

He looks around. They are currently passing through a series of miniature homes. 

"I think I need to take a break from walking soon anyways. If I try to record what I remember, can you mark down any sections that seem obviously off?"

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Kyoya finds a miniature home that has a table and sits down to record their conversation.

It only takes him about fifteen minutes. When he's done, he passes it off to Miranda.

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Kyoya's recording seems almost perfectly accurate, with the exception of several annotations added to the end of Miranda's sentences, that mention she was talking about a building that used to be a library.

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She points one of those out. "When this happens is that just the compulsion or do you think it adds meaningful content?"

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"A compulsion I think. When I read it, it feels repetitive. But, when I'm writing about the ex-library, it feels like it has to be said."

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"Other than that I think you rendered it very well, complete with all the things that you didn't seem to understand at the time, so that's confusing in its own right."

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"I remember what I said. I still don't see the contradictions."

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"I'll refrain from trying to shove them into your brain harder, I guess."

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"I am curious. In a different situation I'd want to keep trying, but not here."

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"Yup. Evil Swedish furniture store to plot escape from."

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He stands up and stretches.

"I think that might be one of the self-serve areas over there?" he points in a direction where IKEA's overhead lights are partially obscured.

"If we get there and it's not we should probably turn back."

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Fortunately, it does turn out to be a self-serve area. 

There are a variety of carts lying around, as well as glowing screens that provide the location of any piece of furniture you can name. 

 

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Kyoya grabs one of the larger flat carts and a basket shaped cart of the type typically found in a grocery store.

"Could you push one of these if it was full?"

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He pushes the basket shaped cart over to Miranda.

"I don't know which type would be better. Things are less likely to fall out of that one if we have to go fast, but you could hop on to this one quickly."

He walks down an aisle with his cart, scanning the names and pictures on the boxes.

"If we found enough desk legs we could make a pole." 

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"How are we for time, do you think we can open desk boxes and take their legs and hardware if we find the right aisle or will we need to come back?"

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He glances at his watch.

"We can safely stay here for at least an hour, but any longer than that is a risk."

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"Okay. Desks, desks... if we're really lucky we can find something that comes in layers and has interchangeable parts that you can attach end to end..." She goes hunting.

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A few of the desks have interchangeable legs that come in separate boxes. She finds a pile of those after a few minutes of hunting.

 

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