There's an ensuite! It's... weirdly nice! Like, the whole house is big and nice, but in proportion to the room itself, the bathroom is amazing. There's a TV you can watch in the shower, if you know how to operate an Amentan TV.

Hel is appropriately impressed, especially as up until now she's largely used communal showers.

She fiddles with the TV to see if she can figure it out. Surely it can't be too different from the sets back at home ... 

She can get it to turn on if she tries pressing all the buttons. Getting it to play anything in particular is more difficult, but if she will be satisfied with the first random guess the device makes, a miniseries about superheroes rescuing stray boats and spaceships and lost kids and hikers and would-be victims of crimes and fires, it will play without further ado.

She likes superheroes and stories of people being and getting rescued. She'll watch that while she washes off in the shower.

When she feels clean and is drying off she wonders if it's too early to bother Papenna about maybe getting some different clothes. Hers need to be washed.

She gets dressed and leaves the room to see if anyone else is awake.

Papenna is in the kitchen, describing in weirdly exacting detail how she likes her toast to a purple. "- Good morning, Helvetica!" she says. "Oh, I knew I should have told you last night, I just didn't want to overwhelm you - you were tromping through a tomato farm in those, we got you a few more outfits, though we're guessing at style and fit -" She pulls a parcel across the kitchen table to hand it to Helvetica.

"I was going to ask about that, actually. And good morning, to you, too!"

She takes the parcel gratefully and opens it.

It has some things that are as similar in cut as possible to what she's been wearing as was feasible in a completely different clothing market, with some extra room in case the proportions turn out to be weird in some way they haven't had a chance to see since she's been fully clothed whenever anyone was looking at her, and drawstrings in case it's too much extra room. "If you don't like these we can get you measured and you can look for things online, of course. There's a laundry chute in your room somewhere, probably next to the bed."

"Thank you so much!" She's pleased to see more sweaters similar to the one she's wearing - although in much better condition - and pants that will fit fine. She removes anything that's striped. "I won't wear these." Then she picks up the remaining parcel and says, "I'll go try these on, make sure they fit. And I can do my own laundry, I don't want to cause trouble for anyone."

"Can we tell the shoppers why you - oh, don't worry about it, you won't have seen the machines before and there's lots of more valuable things to be spending your time on, we can have Shenno over there do the laundry." Shenno, in the kitchen, waves and smiles.

Hel waves back at them. "Alright. And the stripes? It's a monster thing, I guess? It isn't always obvious when monsters are adults - because there's so many different kinds. So we use stripes to indicate that someone is a child."

"Oh, okay! All kinds of stripes, like even if they're wavy or not the same width or -?" says Papenna.

"All stripes, yeah."

"Okay! Any patterns you do like? Colors?"

"I like ... well, I like colors. I don't like whites or greys much. Pastels in general are ... aversive. As for patterns - I don't actually know! For general style, though, I prefer to cover my arms. So long sleeves or gloves are important to me."

"I'll pass that all on to the shopper - unless you want to meet her yourself, but I don't want to assume how overwhelming it'll be to meet all these new people -"

"I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, honestly. Entirely new universe and all ... "

"So I'll let her know. Anything I can help with?"

"I don't think so. It's just a lot. Thank you."

"Of course! I'd be super overwhelmed if I wound up on another planet. If I were you I'd want all week to just settle in and get used to the basics."

"Ha! I didn't even consider that as an option. I'm ... not really used to taking breaks. Speaking of which, is there anything you'd like from me?"

"We want to know absolutely everything, especially about magic, especially-especially if we could figure out how to travel between worlds, but we know you weren't prepped for this! It's okay to take your time and collect your thoughts and not worry about being valuable less than a day after you appeared. Housing you and getting you stuff like clothes and food would be overwhelmingly worth it for the government even if you were a stripe-clad child and couldn't talk yet and wouldn't remember anything by the time you learned."

Hel smiles.

"Well, I'm gonna go try these on and see how they fit. Do you know if it's possible for me to go outside in the yard?"

"Yep, security checked and they said that you can go in the yard out the back door, but shouldn't go past the flagstone path on the north side or the water feature on the south, there's some possible visibility out front."

"Thanks! I'll stick to the back, then. Oh! We also talked about books? Where can I find those ... or have you not had a chance to get them, yet?"

"We've got some, though we won't know how on the money we were with picking them out till you've read a few! Over there on the coffee table in the parlor."