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I'll definitely check it before I eat!

[Let's not have another instance of surprise human remains, please.]

So you'd recommend them... but I still don't get any? That's pretty cruel.

[She just raises an eyebrow at him.]

If we were back home, I'd make you duel for your food. Since we're stuck here and you're an invalid, though, just try asking nicely before it gets cold.

Then...

Can I please have one of those rice balls?

[She just quietly pushes one towards him while chowing down on her own. Good boy. At least he's trainable.]

[Success! He happily takes it.]

Thanks!

[Chomp! He didn't exactly look unhappy before, but he looks pretty happy to have some eats.]

[He never looks exactly unhappy, but now it's a satisfied sort of happy, or something? She has no idea, she met him two days ago. All the same, it makes her feel pretty satisfied too.

So I guess they just chow their way through the rest of the riceballs companionably because she's too well-mannered to talk with her mouth full. Anywho.]

Better?

[Riceball chowdown commence! But it's okay, because it just means he gets to finish eating the deliciousness sooner.]

Much better! I decided I'd just stay in the rest of the night, but I was wondering if it was worth it to try to get food.

Yeah, I didn't really feel like going out again today...

[There's a small sigh about it. It really hasn't been a great couple of days for the outdoors. But it's warm in the resort, at least, if nothing else, and it's cozy in here. She's starting to feel a companionship with the stuffed animals.]

You said nothing like this has happened before, huh? If what happened to you is something the staff can just do... that's crazy.

I'd definitely remember if my eyes started bleeding from analyzing before!

[He laughs, because haha, so funny, right?]

I've never had any issues reading data before. It's really weird! It's almost like something was fighting to make it so I couldn't focus.

I really hope you'd remember.

[Haha. Ha. There's some doubt in her voice, but that's just part of her general dubiousness about his choices in life.]

Just be careful when you're reading, all right? There are a lot of abnormalities about everyone and everywhere here. I think we'll need your eyes, so don't screw them up. [a moment of thought] So what you said is, you can see... things as numbers? Like seeing data?

Okay! I'll be more careful next time.

[Can't turn down a request like that!]

Yeah, I've been able to see the world as numbers since I was born. It tells me pretty much anything there is to know. Physical aspects and ratios, even thoughts and feelings. For example...

[And then he rattles off her measurements.]

Thoughts and feelings? That's almost like you're--

[An AI, she kind of wants to say, but even their AIs aren't quite that advanced. Also it's a good thing she cut herself off, because that would have been rude and all. You don't just call somebody a robot, even if they're an unqualified disaster person. Anyway.]

--Did you just...?

[He totally did?? Now that he's only half an invalid he definitely gets a cuff on the head for it.]

If you look again, you're going to need another nap. You don't just look at an idol's numbers!

Not the head!

[He laughs, as he is cuffed. This kid.]

Anyway, I can see stuff like that!

[This kid!!! She ignores the urge to cuff him again, it would probably just make him worse. He needs all the braincells he can get.]

... Hmph. And you can see this... data... for just about anything. But not the staff.

[That bears some thinking about. Staff security?]

Did you see anything weird on the way here? With the blizzard, and the road.

Uh-huh! That area where we started? I noticed the numbers kept repeating themselves. Kind of makes me wonder if the area would have repeated too, if we went the wrong way.

There was a wrong way, wasn't there?

[In all the excitement and snow and the understandable total confusion over virtual reality versus real reality she'd barely noticed -- but they were... drawn here? Something like that.]

... And there isn't a way out of here. Not a normal one.

[Please see: couch pile.]

What do you mean by that?

[He's a shut-in, he hasn't even tried to leave the building.]

I tried to fly out, and I think some of us tried to walk out or clear the roads. We... got teleported back here.

[And somehow all ended up on the same couch. Worst return point ever.]

So your wings are functional?

[That's more than he'd expect from an avatar. How does that even work?]

...You're sure it was teleporting?

No, these are decorative. This is what I use to fly.

[The wings ruffle with her movements, but that’s as far as their motions can go, for the most part.

Instead, she has an arm up, palm spread, and her D-board phases into existence a moment later against her hand.]

There are a limited number of things that could get to me up where I was. I was in the air, and then... I wasn’t.

Whoa, what's that?!

[It looks like some kind of hoverboard, maybe...?!]

[When she lets go, it rights itself from where it was leaning against her and floats up in the air a wee bit. It’s very much a Blue Angel-themed board.]

My D-board. We use these to duel in the sky in Link VRAINS.

[She’s totally proud of it. Maybe a little distracted from the topic at hand.]

I don't know what dueling is, but can anyone ride it?!

[He super wants to ride it.]

[She looks amused, but also pleased. Have a casual wave, and the board orients itself towards his side of the room.]

Go ahead.

[HOPPIN ON THAT THING how exciting!]

How do you make it go?

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