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students in time out: 10

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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Sure. Which guy's that? [ Ignorance game continues. ]

[she studies him for a moment, then looks back inside and points at lwj]

That one.

Neat!

[ He reaches out, like he's about to pat her -- but his hand twitches, like a flinch I guess, and he just draws it back. Nevermind. ]

Thanks, Lila! Super helpful.

No problem!

[she follows the progress of his hand from where he's reached out to when it's drawn back, and she pauses.

and then, casually:]

Sooo... are you hungry? Maybe we could ask if the bear has any ohba gyoza. It got alcohol for Bradley.

[ He's somewhat predictable. He immediately tenses up, like he wanted to get more excited about it, but stops and just ends up pausing for a second. This is truly the worst tag I've had to write. ]

Sure, I could go for some food. Dunno what gyoza is...

[she watches the way he tenses up]

Oh, well, if you don't know what it is, maybe you wouldn't like it...

[ This is bullying. And honestly the worst day of his life 'you spent all day yesterday having to deal with people interrogating you about a gruesome murder' no this is the worst day of his life. ]

... If you think so...

...you don't sound very sure of that!

-- 'Cause it's just weird logic! Okay!

Why would you assume I won't like something I've never heard of! I have no opinions! None!

Well, some foods are an acquired taste, you know? And if you've never heard of them or never had them before, you might not like them!

I like other foods! I don't have any likes or dislikes!

...wait, what? Do you like other foods or do you not have any likes or dislikes? Which is it?

[ I'M GOING TO CRY I WAS ONLY HALF-PAYING ATTENTION AND ACCIDENTALLY TRANSLITERATED IT FROM JAPANESE (SUKIKIRAI NASHI) I'm just going to go with it end my life. ]

Gah! I meant -- I don't have any dislikes! Yeah, that's what I meant! I just woke up, I have excuses!

[rest in pieces

anyway, she pats his shoulder]

So what foods do you like, then?

Ramen. Porkbuns. You know, stuff like that. [ Gyoza. Other Sino-Japanese foods, apparently. ]

...you know what ramen is but you don't know what gyoza is?

...

...

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Yeah. I mean, there's a neat ramen place near my school but I've never seen a gyoza restaurant, so.

Don't a lot of ramen places sell gyoza too...?

Dunno, I don't have a lot of time to spend on lunch, so I eat pretty fast.

So you've never read the menu...?

Yeah, 'cause I order the same shit every time. Tonkotsu, extra-big size add-on. I have favourites.

But wouldn't you have had to look at the menu at least once to place your first order?

You think I just memorized the entire menu or something?! Jeez, you're really hung up over this stuff! I can't tell if you do or don't want me to have gyoza...!

[she shrugs]

It just seems weird to me, that's all! Like, even I'd heard of gyoza before I moved to Japan...

I dunno where that is, maybe rules are just different or it's way more common in your world!

[ He should've said he just never had gyoza. He has grossly overcompensated. Oh no. ]

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