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Lucy takes a deep breath and peers into the well. 

She isn't going to repeat that first incident, that had felt like the light was being sucked out of her. But she isn't going to just give up, either. She stares down the well, willing something besides just darkness to make itself known to her eyes. 

Nothing comes to view. She grits her teeth and leans in, glowing very slightly. 

Leaning in should have been perfectly safe; the well had a sturdy stone barrier, and her feet were planted firmly on the ground behind it. She would have to be pushed in order to fall in. 

Her attention is very focused on the well. The first sign she has that something is wrong is a pair of rough hands planted against her back. 

She falls. 

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"Fair enough." Does this place have fortune cookies? Xander wants a fortune cookie.

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This place does not have fortune cookies. 

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"What kinda Chinese place doesn't have fortune cookies?" he mutters to himself on their way out.

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"What is a fortune cookie."

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"Bland folded-up cookie with a piece of paper inside that tells you your fortune. ...like for fun, no one believes them."

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"If the cookie is bland why do you want one. Just for the silly fortune? I can write one for you if you want."

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"No, it's... the whole experience."

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"I suppose that makes sense. But it's apparently been over five hundred years, I'm not surprised the tradition didn't relevantly survive."

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"It's just disappointing."

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Shrug. "Things are, sometimes." 

Unspoken: we have bigger problems. Unspoken: well, so is people continuing to be dead. 

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Back at the school Isabella picks up a book of short stories and sees if she recognizes anything.

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Not all of them are in any way recognizable but there are some recognizable adaptations of fairy tales and aesop's fables and so on. 

Lucy locates a book she can use to start teaching herself the relevant Chinese dialect and dives in. 

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Isabella reads the unfamiliar stories.

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"Dinner?" wonders Xander some hours later.

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"吃," she agrees, then shakes her head. "Sorry. Yes, it does seem to be the time for it." 

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"Chirr? What does chirr mean?"

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"Huh, how about that."

What all is there to eat besides Chinese food?

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The food isn't really divided into "Chinese" and "not Chinese;" there's just food, some of which happens to be identifiable as Chinese in origin to someone from the relatively cosmopolitan but still relevantly culturally segregated year of 2006. 

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Eventually Isabella tiebreaks in favor of hot pot.

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"This is more like dumplings than sour soup! I'm learning so many things I like today!"

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"What's food like where you're from?"

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"It's...food...wow that's not helpful...bread, meat, lots of mushrooms, vegetables if you're lucky, zeefood, rat on a stick, sandwiches, soup--I've had khaganian food, which is kind of heavy on the meat, and they have an apparently very distinct kind of liquor? I don't know I've never tried it. We have lots of mushroom wines, though, I think that's notable and on the Surface they use grapes instead?"

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"Not rattus faber!"

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