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[dormheads]

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[arcsplainist]

... If it troubles you none. You needn't add any unnecessary work to your own self for my sake.

[departea]

It's fine! It helps the dorm out in general, really. Anyone would benefit from healing.

[arcsplainist]

Indeed they would, so I find it of great import for it to be returned to me, limited or not.

Especially after what happened to us this past Thursday—which was the other topic I wished to speak with you about.

[departea]

Oh, yes please. No one has really spoken to me about that yet.

[arcsplainist]

No?

[ That's kind of surprising. ]

Has no one yet mentioned we found a student application with your name on it there, too?

[departea]

Luke and Chad told me about that, since they heard about it during trial.

[ chad and luke squinting as everyone talked about their apps in front of their salad ]

[arcsplainist]

Aye, it had come up. And here I was worried I would be asking you questions you've already been flooded with.

[departea]

Nope! So you can... ask away.

Although I'm not sure if I'll have a lot of answers.

[arcsplainist]

If I may speak plain, I could not expect you to.

[ He'll go ahead and place the document upon the tiki bar table for her to see. ]

We had been whisked away elsewhere entirely, stumbling upon these and half of a map only after we had made our escape. Why do you think that is?

[departea]

I don't think the map is that weird. You can probably get one of those at any petrol station.

[ she'll lean over to read it, frowning. ]

But this is... odd. I didn't even do a paper application, it's all electronic. So someone went through the effort to print this out, too...

[arcsplainist]

[ ... ye olde trying to understand that sentence... ]

And that someone wanted us to find these. This may be forward of me, but it does leave the impression that the dormitory leaders have something to hide.

[departea]

It's fairly forward, yeah. And rather untrue.

I have no idea what any of the scribblings are about. It doesn't even seem to know how many siblings I've got.

[arcsplainist]

[ ... huh? ]

There is no truth to them?

[departea]

No.

[ she points at where it says 'death experience' ]

I've had a near death experience, sure. But this is an odd way to phrase it. And I didn't write about it in my school application.

[arcsplainist]

[ He thinks for a long moment. ]

'Tis not as though any of this would damage your good image, either. It makes little sense to make such things up.

[departea]

I also want to know how they even got copies of these.

We're really not joking when we say applications aren't accessible to those outside the admissions office, even you're own.

[arcsplainist]

Many impossibilities have already happened, Sally. Nevertheless, it still does not bode well that it happened at all.

[departea]

No...

And you guys did nothing differently that day?

[arcsplainist]

Insofar that I am aware.

I... only recall going about my business, only to appear before a home, our school grounds nowhere in sight. And that is where it began.

[departea]

What is this, an extreme kidnapping?

[ what ]

[arcsplainist]

"A kidnapping within a kidnapping", as another put it. Even stranger, it felt as though we were gone for days, but upon our return, only mere hours had passed.

[departea]

Is that so...?

Maybe you were drugged with something.

[arcsplainist]

Drugged? You could not possibly mean that.

[departea]

I'm trying to think of a reasonable explanation here.

I know that when the school pulls you from where you're from, time stops. Maybe the opposite happened?

[arcsplainist]

Hm... Do you suspect we were pulled to a different world?