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A bnuuy wakes up in Thomassia
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She's waiting for her train, which is late (as usual).

Uh, that's weird, the wagon looked darker on the pictures online. Oh well, they must have repainted it recently.

She hops on the train, and goes to find her place before any adult can see her and ask questions she doesn't really want to answer.

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There should be a way to lock the compartment from the inside for the night. The train ticket inspector can unlock it if he needs to anyway. Or she! Uh, working for railways must be interesting, you get to see al kind of places...

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Ah! There it is. She doesn't understand the instruction, but then again she only knows two or three German words and the mechanism is quite obvious.

Time to sleep!

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Bonnie wakes up at a station shaded by incredibly tall buildings, between two plazas positively teeming with people, with footpaths full of people above the train station connecting the tall buildings together. There's a gentle breeze, and the wonderful smell of fresh bread in the air. And there are charming, brightly-colored robots flying across the ground, deftly running around people.

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That's... weird. When she hopped off the train she couldn't see the "Wein HBF" sign she expected to find, but everyone was getting off, the time was as expected (great job, ÖBB!) and it did look like a terminal station.

But now... the more she looks around the more confused she feels. She can't read the signs and... well, she doesn't speak German, but she expected to be able to recognize at least some of the words. Or to find some English, in the hopdamned capital. Germans Austrians.

The robots are incredibly cute, and she'll get distracted by a good ten minutes trying to find patterns in their movement.

She tries to find someone who looks like a local to ask for directions.

"Excuse me. Where to go for Schönbrunn Castle?"

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The local is a woman wearing a short skirt above a pair of leggings, both bright blue, together with a long black athletic shirt slightly overlapping the skirt; it makes her look very sporty. But she's confused at hearing Bonnie's words. She looks her up and down, trying to get an idea about where she might have come from as she tries to come up with some idea of what language she's speaking and how to communicate with her.

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"English? Italiano? Ich sprache keine Deutsch."

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...crud. The woman tries speaking to Bonnie, saying "hi" in as many languages as she can. She hopes one of them works...

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Nooope. None of those. She shakes her head.

She tries to mime. "Where" looking all around, confused "can I go" point at self, then walking "for information and questions?" talking and a question mark.

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Aah. What's the symbol at the end she just used? The looking around and walking things made sense. Well... she points directly to the nearest police station, behind one of the buildings, waving her body right and left. Helping people is their job, and they'd probably be best-equipped to handle someone not speaking the language?

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"Thank you! Grazie! Danke!" she puts her hands on her heart and bows slightly, then waves goodbye and starts running walking briskly because she shouldn't run in public places.

Right of that building, then left, then. Uh. Is there anything looking like an infopoint?

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Not quite; there's a black and white striped line visible on the walls of one of the skyscrapers, and looking behind the windows taking up most of the wall between the stripes, she can see that there's a lobby with a few people dressed in proper outfits looking very attentive and vigilant and bored.

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Hmmmm. That's not what she was expecting, but... they can probably help her go further! The trick with taking directions is going in approximately the correct direction, then improve from there anyway.

Does it look like there's an obvious door?

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Yes, there's a wide door to one side, right next to the stripes on the right side.

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"Hello! Could someone point me to the Schönbrunn castle?"

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The people waiting inside look at her in confusion. Then, one of them calls someone on the phone. Someone who knows a lot of languages. And holds it out in front of Bonnie.

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Something's not adding up but. Sure, she'll speak into the probably-a-phone.

"Hello! I'm so confused right now, is this not Wien?"

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"Well, you're not confused about that, this place is called Coincrown!"

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Well. At least someone speaks English. So there's that.

On the other hand she has never heard of Coincrown, and this place looks big, but she got there during the night so it must still be in Europe, at least.

"Uh. Which... country?"

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"Not sure what you mean? It's on Heaven's Steps Island, Continent of the Lyre?"

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"I don't recognize any of those names and that doesn't make sense. I'm bad at geography, but not recognizing the continent makes no sense."

"Am I on some kind of prank tv show? If so, please cut it out, I'm getting worried."

Ok, time for the Emergency Plan. Step 1: turn on her phone and text mum.

She grabs her phone from the top pocket of her backpack and turns it on. The name of the phone operator it will connect to is probably going to be helpful.

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...the phone doesn't connect to any operator.

"Well, people get amnesia, and forget what happened and how they got places? It's rare, of course. But it happens."

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"Yes, but I shouldn't forget continents? I'm from Udine, Friuli, Italy, Europe, and I got there with a single night train, so I shouldn't be on a different continent."

Not even emergency service? That's... concerning. Any open wifi networks?

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There isn't emergency service or any form of wifi!

"People have forgotten... very big parts of their lives. Your situation is, as I said, unusual but not unheard of."

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No wifi networks. In the middle of a city. What is happening.

"I am lost and now I'm scared and I need help and I want to get back home and I have a ticket but it's a ticket from Vienna so it probably won't be valid and I have some money but probably not enough for a ticket and."

She'll stop talking and just sit down on the closest thing which she can sit on. Or the floor. The floor works too.

She's not going to cry. But it will be a close fight.

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