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Meng Yao is sleep-deprived enough from his new baby that when the cry wakes him up he's halfway through the first verse of Northeastern Cradle Song before he goes from "why can't I find his bottle?" to "because I am standing on a street corner and not in my house."
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THIS IS NOT HIS CRIB!!!! IT IS SOME DARK COLD PLACE THAT IS NOT HIS CRIB AND HE IS MAD ABOUT IT.
There are cars going by, and street signs in English that say 68TH ST and SUNSET AVE and DOUG'S SOUP SHOP (subtitle: The health department allowed us to remain open under certain conditions we are trying to comply with!) and MICK'S: OUR PRODUCTS ARE SLIGHTLY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN WALMART BUT WE'RE CLOSE ENOUGH FOR YOU TO READ THIS SIGN.
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This is a weird street.
That sounds like a problem for Future Meng Yao who doesn't have a sobbing baby in his arms.
"Mick's?"
Mick's sells formula for what are indeed slightly worse prices than Walmart. Do they have money?
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They have money because Meng Yao is sleeping in his slacks and buttondown because pajamas are for people who aren't working sixty-hour weeks with a newborn.
(He is cutting back at work. He's SO cutting back. He hasn't even run to fill his father's seat yet, so there.)
Mick's will sell them all those things. The machine declines their credit card but - with a little squinting at some of the newer bills - the clerk will take their cash. "Welcome to Mick's, so far you're above-average customers but only because the lousy ones are incredibly bad, did you find everything?"
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Late-night clerks are always weird. "Thank you, we have where we need. Apologies, do you know what street we're on? We got a little bit turned around."
"Sunset Avenue," yawns the clerk.
"Kansas City. Missouri."
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What.
"Thank you," he says and finishes paying.
To Lan Xichen: "...Why are we in Missouri?"
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Meng Xuanyu will graciously accept this tribute of formula as a small reparation for being SUDDENLY DEPRIVED OF HIS CRIB.
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"Seriously, let's call an Uber, go to a hotel, and then worry about it."
He pulls out his phone to try to do this.
No signal.