- she will probably not literally starve in this room rather than get someone. At least they won't be able to tell which part of the movie she should be on.

"Yeah. I can do that."

"I don't mean 'will you manage before you actually die', I'd like you to come get me when you're hungry.  Or want another movie. Or want a puppy to kick, or - whatever, just, I'll be really unhappy if you're sitting in there suffering for hours while I don't have any idea, okay?"

Very unclear on how saying no could possibly help her here.

"I'll be fine."

He looks very frustrated and unhappy, but he leaves.

Oh good. Probably. 

She waits five minutes, counting in her head. It occurs to her that she can't keep good time without the movie going, so she mutes it rather than pausing. Edibility testing is really for wild plants, not for if someone gives you an inedible pizza, but it's not like she has any better way of making sure the food they're giving her is safe to eat, so she's kind of short on options. At least if the pizza is normal pizza it'll probably mean all the other food is however safe the pizza is.

She touches the center with one hand and the crust with the other. Gonna have to wait eight hours to see if it's contact poisonous. That's, like, five Princess Bride runthroughs.

She hates her life. She hates her life so much.

She paces and she prays. She doesn't pray as often as she used to, because she's kind of unsure who's running this show, at this point, but it's not against the rules and she wants the kids to be OK and it seems like it might plausibly help.

I just would not have expected 'joined the side of evil' to be a mistake Karen would make!

There's a lot of mistakes out there to make.

I know that. But this is a weird one. Wolfram and Hart! They're not secretly evil but get you once you're already stuck, they practically advertise that they're evil. 

She's convinced I poisoned the pizza. Why would I do that? Even if I wanted her dead, why would I do that?

Are you still drunk?

Little bit. Not that much. I'm working on it.

Why don't you get some sleep, I can be here when she comes out.

What if she means to come out before she starves to death but overestimates herself and faints before she gets to the door and doesn't wake up and by the time we go in there there's just a - fossilized skeleton -

Then we'll have to get two of them back.

He doesn't sleep but he showers and puts on normal human clothes and drinks some water and wanders downstairs to check on whether Azalea's come (it has been five minutes downstairs, so she hasn't) and goes back up.

She's not gonna eat this pizza until she's run a full edibility test, and a full edibility test takes two days.

If he were aware of this he'd be very upset about it but you can't read minds through closed Milliways doors.

Eventually she eats the pizza. It's kind of stale from being out for two days, but it doesn't make her sick or mindwipe her or strip her of her will or make her incapable of thinking straight or make her incapable of asserting falsehoods. As far as she can tell.

If no one's come to get her by that point, she will cautiously open the door and knock on the other one.

He's actually pacing in the hallway. He looks immensely relieved to see her. "Karen!"

" - hi. Um. You said to ask for more food at some point."

"Yep, what do you want?"

"I don't know? What is there?"

"The bar's magic, it can make anything you want. If you wanna let it make recommendations they're pretty good ones, too."

Shrug. "Spaghetti then."

"Okay. Do you want to come down and get it with me, or stay up here?"

"I can come down. I guess."