naomi and carmines in MO
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Does she see any information around the monitor that she can type in?

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Unfortunately not.

It also seems to be displaying an error of some kind.

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Which says ...

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Something in a foreign language?

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Hmm. 

She wants to stay and tinker with it -- she'd be able to find some menu access after only a few hours if it was in her native language. 

Oh well. She looks through the filing cabinet. Anything in a language she recognizes? 

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Nope!

One of the documents is curiously blurry though.

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She notes where it's from. Wow her new memory is nice. 

And opens the door that will lead her -- presumably -- deeper into the building. 

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She comes into a relatively big room! It's about twelve feet tall, seems to have some sort of opaque glass or plastic around the edge, has a few other rooms dotted around the edge like the one she just came out of, and has a big set of glass and metal stairs in the middle.

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She checks the other rooms. Any people or writing in her language?

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Nope, just a few more mostly-empty offices and then a janitor's closet.

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She goes up the stairs. 

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There are more offices! They all seem to have (transparent) glass walls between them, and are quite regular and… pretty much identical to one another.

Each desk has a single sheet of paper to the left of the computer monitor, which has cables leading under the desk. Near each desk is a wastepaper bin. In the middle of the left and right walls of each office is a door.

There are approximately fifty of them.

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And none of them are occupied. This is creeepy.

 

Naomi exits the building.

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Outside, she can see the forest again. Nothing seems to have moved since she was last here.

She might notice there is no sun, though. Just a blue sky.

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She notices and speculates idly on where the light's coming from on her way back to the hut. 

 

She's starting to feel hungry.

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The hut is not particularly far from the building. The door remains as she left it.

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Is that mini fridge still there?

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It is! She can open it just fine and inside are a few canned beverages, a packet of chips, some bread and what is presumably water in a bottle.

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She grabs a beverage and a packet of chips and goes back to looking through those books -- she had left some out on the table. 

Maybe there's another book with a list of common words ...

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The list of common words in her native tongue is still present. The other books do not appear to be lists of common words, for they are, variously: filled with dots across each and every page, seemingly in some sort of pattern but it isn't clear what; lots of curly letters, circles and loops and a couple of straight lines, written vertically and joined up fancily, perhaps some sort of poetry… or something; and what might be a dictionary or perhaps a thesaurus. In yet another foreign language.

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Well, she has food. And she may as well stay in one place.

She works on memorizing one of the books for lack of anything better to do. It is both relatively easy -- easier than it had been before the surgery, anyway -- and strangely calming. 

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About ten minutes in, she might hear a noise.

She probably does hear a noise about a second after that. It's something along the lines of, "Ow!"

There appears to be someone on the floor near the door. He has quite blue hair.

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"A person! Hello! my name is --" she points to herself and deliberately pronounces "Nay-oh-mi. Yours?" She turns her hands outwards.

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He blinks at her, then gets up from the floor. Pointing at himself, he says, "Itaruko?"

He seems really rather confused about his new surroundings.

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She shows him around! These are the books with various languages -- oh, this is the word "book", this is the word "chair", "Naomi sits" (she demonstrates) "on the chair".

 

That is the food. She offers him some. 

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