"...it's got a case on it?"

"But it has - it doesn't have buttons."

"...yeah, it's not that old, we had to get new ones for Japan."

"I think no one on the whole world has a phone that new.  That I know."

"...I guess I'll tell the DDSI person that too." Tap tap tap.

Can she see what's going on on his phone while he does this?

If she tries he turns it away from her. "That's rude."

"I apologize.  I didn't know."

"If you want to see what I'm saying about you to the DDSI person or how the picture came out or anything you have to ask first and wait for permission."

"I didn't know," she repeats.  If she's taking a test, this is definitely a part of it.  "I'm sorry."

[Picture of Kennedy curtsying]
She says she was about to have lunch, in case that helps with time zones.
She doesn't recognize my phone which is this year's iPhone. She expected all phones to have buttons.

She doesn't like the picture but she holds her tongue about it also being rude to take one without more warning.  ...She feels exactly as hungry as she did before, which is kind of but not very.  So maybe there's not a kidnapping, or at least one without magic.  Unless there's a way to feed people while they're asleep?

"What do you mean by time zones?"

"Well it's almost dinner time here but where my dad lives it's like one in the morning."

"How?"

"Because the world's round? So when the sun's on this side it's not on that side."

Okay, what would a normal kid do.  She doesn't know.  She - sits down on the floor, and says, "I find it really upsetting to keep being told wrong things are true while I'm disorientated."

He considers this statement. "I want to try to be nice to you but that is because I think you got your head messed with by a monster," he says eventually. "And I don't think it'd be being nice to you, to go along with things the monster did to you. And if you did not get your head messed with by a monster, and instead you only got teleported and you're just deciding to say all the stuff you say on purpose because you think lying is fun, then I don't think I really want you in my apartment at all, because that is a bad thing to do to someone who's trying to figure out how to get you back home and get you dinner and stuff and it will make it a lot harder for me to do that."

She wraps her arms around her knees.  "I'm not allowed to lie."

"And if you were lying it would be really weird to pick these lies! So I think probably your head got messed with. But you gotta remember, that's what I think. I don't know what things you expect me to say instead of the things I say, so I can't even just go along with what the monster made you think even if it'd make you feel better. I can just not correct you some of the time if it doesn't seem important like how I didn't say that disorientated isn't a word, but I definitely can't do that if you ask what time zones are!"

"Every adult I know has always said the Earth is flat.  If that's not true, then, everything about my whole life isn't true and I don't know anything about who I am or - that, that math is real, or science, or - anything.  - How do you say we stay on; is it monsters?"

"...I guess maybe you are from a cult," he says consideringly. "If the monster didn't do all of it... We stay on because of gravity that pulls us to the middle of the earth." He pokes his phone some more to introduce the hypothesis that she might be from a cult.

"I am not from a cult.  ...But I am from a country that's run by all the same person, and I'm an experiment, so - I don't think they would experiment on me by telling me wrong things about the world.  And you don't even think that astrology is real to have a bunch of the same people with..."

"I don't think that's how people who believe astrology think it works either but I guess I might not have heard of it? Anyway, monsters do lots of very bad things. But once somebody knows what dungeon had that kind of monster, and stuff, probably a psychic esper can fix you? If it's a monster problem and not a cult problem."

"What's an esper."

"I'm gonna say 'somebody who has superpowers' and you're gonna say 'nobody has superpowers', aren't you."