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a d/s au Alessa and cousin in Daémon
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If nothing disturbs them in the night, then in the morning they wake up. Is anything new making itself known?

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Their phones have a message that 20,000 of the local currency has been deposited into their accounts, and another message mentioning that it should be enough for some clothing and necessities, and that cafeteria food is free if they show the clip from their room keys.

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The daemons report that they do sleep! And are also awake now.

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They successfully find the messages. 

They don't know how much money that is, but will assume it isn't very much because someone gave it to them. Enough for some clothing and necessities will make sense to them.

They get up, and wash up in the bathroom again, and brush and rebraid their hair (for lack of a comb they'll make do with their hands), and shake out their nightclothes as well as they can. 

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He goes to try and find the cafeteria and see if they'll let him take some food back for Alessa, since probably there are other people there. (He does his best to not leave room for Alessa to argue with him about that.)

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He peeks out of the room to see how many people are around outside it, and how many might there be on the way to the front desk.

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There are more people out in the morning than there were late at night.  The lights are also all a bit brighter.  In the hallway outside, a pair of children are running around with pink blob-like daemons on their shoulders as their father tries to herd them towards school.  All of the shower rooms are taken when they get there, with a man standing at the front of the hall to start a queue, but there are toilet rooms free right away.  

The trays and fresh food can't be taken out of the cafeteria, though the cafeteria worker points him to a section with some pre-packaged meal bars or meal replacement drinks that they can choose from.  There are a few varieties, some in normal flavor combinations and some in very strange ones.  None mention any animal products.  There are also some bottles of non-meal drinks that he can choose from:  Water, sweet tea, chilled vegetable broths, various fruit juices.  The cafeteria credit that came with their rooms is good for three meals plus drinks per day per person.  He can also buy extras for 200 currency units each, apparently done using the phone.  

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They don't need the showers, they still don't have anything to change into and it doesn't make sense to wash off their feet now when they're going to be walking around. 

He still can't figure out how they mark role. 

...He should stop being ridiculous, go to the front desk, and ask about sending messages and calling. It isn't as though he's naked, and he has the other sheet, and no one here even knows this is his nightshirt, and he'll be walking around in it later anyway. If their Uncle were here he would have already lost patience with him. (Wouldn't have allowed him avoiding the cafeteria either. And he's already doing that.)

By the time Kente gets back he has, however, not yet left the room. 

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He'll get some bars for both of them so as not to make Alessa wait for him, and some of the chilled vegetable broths. He knows Alessa's tastes well enough to pick something he should like (which is more care than Alessa often takes with himself, but that's what he's here for, isn't he.) (If they don't like him taking food for two people on just himself, he can spend two of his meals on this, and then Alessa can return the same at lunch. By which time they will hopefully have clothing.)

He goes back to the room. Is pretty easily able to figure out what's going on. 

"I can do it." And, when Alessa seems about to protest. "You do the extra talking so I don't get myself whipped, I do the extra walking around in nightclothes. Seems fair to me." And hugs him.

It doesn't take long to eat the bars. He heads out to where the front desk was with his phone after. He's guessing it won't be Mareline there again, but is there someone?

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There is.  A cheery looking young woman only slightly older than they are, and a purple snake large enough to watch him from behind the counter.  She's busy reading something, but looks up when he approaches.  "Hi!  How can I help you?"

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He's not used this type of phone before and they need to call someone; how would he do that correctly?

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She is briefly confused, but glances at his daemon.  The night shift had left a note about them.  She can explain it.  Does he have the number already?

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Helpful of them.

He does but if it's alright they'd prefer to do the actual call in their room?

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That's fine.  She is confused why they seem to think they need her permission to use their phones.  "Come back if you need anything else explained," she says.  

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Well, he thought she might try to direct him through the call right there, and he'd prefer not that, but she's from the government so he shouldn't just announce things to her. 

He can't tell what she's confused about; probably something related to there being a kidnapped alien around. (Two of them, even.)

He thanks her. He goes back to the room.

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Messaging seems less intrusive than calling, but they'd been told to call. He calls the number they were given.

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There's a few seconds of waiting, then a voice picks up.  "Hello.  Azure-and-Florentho speaking.  Who is this?"  He sounds slightly groggy, but not upset.  

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Oh gods did he wake him up? ...Well, nothing for it now, he isn't going to try to hang up and pretend he didn't.

"I'm so sorry, sir. It's Alessa, from the lab, sir. I'm very sorry."

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"Oh, hi!  Is everything okay over there?  You sound upset."  

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"No, sorry sir, everything is fine. I'm sorry if I woke you up, sir."

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He grimaces. (And Azure had said to call him and also said morning and didn't say any more than that if he remembers correctly. 

And of course the fact that he gets tempted to point out things like that is why Alessa is doing the talking.)

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(The vulpix jumps into his lap again.)

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"It's fine," he says.  He's pretty used to being woken up by phone calls, and it is right around the time he'd normally wake up.  "We were going to go clothes shopping, and that's the sort of thing that shouldn't wait.  You're still in the hotel area by the teleport?  I should be responsible and not teleport outside of emergencies during busy times of day, so it'll take about half an hour to get there."

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"Thank you, sir." He's not completely sure he won't be reprimanded when the dom gets here, but - it's still forgiving. Which is good, if the dom is meant to have authority over them.

He's isn't sure he understands the question. "We're still in the hotel we walked to, sir. Should we - wait outside, sir?"

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He considers that.  He remembers that they had been upset at their clothing last night, which was apparently their alien world's equivalent of indecent.  "I'll call back when I get close, and you can come out to the lobby then."

There is some sound in the background as he gets up and starts walking around.  Florentho searches his own phone for tailors that are especially close to the Sienna Police Station.  Under normal circumstances, he'd insist on going over to Column of Summer where his favorite tailor works and commision them a complete wardrobe, but they can pick up something cheap and ready-made for the moment.  

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