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She nods, "okay," and then heads into the house - to the back, this time.

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...staying right where he is seems like the safest response. He does that.

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She's not long - ten, maybe fifteen minutes - and comes out pushing a smallish wheeled metal contraption and floating a larger object made of dust-colored canvas. She takes them around the side of the house between it and the garage to set them up; they turn out to be a tent and folding bed.

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—okay. That's - reasonable.

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She makes another, briefer trip inside for a small table and a lamp, and then seems satisfied with the setup. "Sora," she confirms, gesturing at the closed tent, and then returns to sit in her previous spot.

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...probably he should go be in the tent then? Maybe? He hesitates.

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Shrug. "Sora choice."

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- okay. But that doesn't really solve his problem, he still has to guess the safer path... maybe the safer path is to sit quietly in the tent and not bother anyone?

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"Hmh." She looks like she's trying to figure him out.

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He is definitely not sure what to do about that.

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...hmm.

She starts naming the eating utensils that are handy; in short order he has the words for cups and mugs and the teapot and the bowls and spoons, and the bucket for good measure. All of them but his mug, she arranges between them as she names them. When she's done, she gestures to the collection: "all."

There's a question of whether he'll get that one.

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He is attentive to the vocabulary lessons, and manages to guess what 'all' means, although he's not sure he got it right.

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Well, that's an advantage of reading his mind, she can tell.

"All safe Sora."

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...um... no? There are lots of things that are dangerous to Sora. Like the desert they're in the middle of, and Pradnakt's otherworldly powers, and the barely-glimpsed strange creature that sent him here - even if what she means is just that the people and things nearby are not dangerous to him right now, that doesn't mean none of them will be in the future, which is why he needs to figure out how to be a good guest who doesn't upset anyone. Especially because she knows so many of his horrible secrets already and is probably going to find out the rest.

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She makes A Face. It is fairly readily interpreted as 'I'm really very sure of that, it's silly of you to disagree with me'.

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...well that's a little intimidating. And he's not sure which thing she means he shouldn't disagree with her about - and he wouldn't even know how to start thinking of the world as a safe place, even if it were the old familiar world and not this new strange unsettling one, the only times in his life he has ever felt safe have been while he was committing murder, and he has already figured out that he definitely shouldn't do that, even if there was someone around he could get away with murdering, which there really obviously isn't.

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"Mm. See," she taps next to her eye. "Pradnakt see Sora," she gestures from her eyes to him. "Pradnakt see Sora think," and this one gets the forehead tap - point at him gesture from when she was explaining her powers. "Sora think all unsafe Sora. Think safe Sora; all safe Sora." You can think that if you want to; it's no more dangerous than anything else.

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...he thinks she means that she doesn't mind if he keeps being scared? Well. Okay. Good?

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Nod. "Sora see," she adds, her tone confident but suggesting that it's perfectly fine that he hasn't seen it yet.

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...that seems really unlikely but he suspects he is not going to convince her.

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Sure.

She mimes sleeping, and identifies the word for him. "Sora choice sleep?"

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...sure, okay. A reasonable thing to do at this hour. If night even works the same here as at home.

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She gathers up the dishes to bring inside. Before she goes, she pauses to look speculatively at the water bucket, but ultimately leaves it there.

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He considers whether it would be okay for him to move the bucket closer to the tent, decides it probably is, and does that. And then he goes into the tent and fails to sleep because everything is terrifying.

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She stays mostly in the front of the house, and eventually curls up on the floor behind the door, apparently to sleep.

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