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Pen offers it back.

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"Thanks," he says, accepting it. "What's your name? I'm John."

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"Am Peninnah. Pen."

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"Nice to meet you," says John.

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"Yes!" agrees Peninnah. "I meet so many of the people, yesterday. Now you!"

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"Milliways is nice like that."

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"Yes. Nice bar."

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"Definitely the nicest I've been to," he says.

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"Mommy like nice bar. Daddy also."

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"And where are your mommy and daddy right now?"

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"Seems reasonable."

He finishes his Coke; he takes a look around the bar, savouring the moment; he gets up.

"I should get back to work," he says with a sigh. "Nice talking to you, Pen."

And he heads for the door.
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Pen gets some milk, and drinks it, and then goes to the door too. Huh, it's still a little open.

She opens it up, peering over her shoulder as she does for a last look at the nice bar, and then she's through and it closes properly this time.
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This is definitely not the same place she left. It's a deserted street in an unfamiliar city, under a cloudy predawn sky, and the door that just closed belongs to a small office tower.

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That's not how it's supposed to work.

She turns back to the door and pulls on it.
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It is locked.

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That's really not how it's supposed to work.

Pen tries to brainphone Mommy.

She tries to brainphone Daddy.

She tries to brainphone Jane.

She tries her sisters and all the grownups she knows.

It doesn't work.

Gosh.



She tries to find an alt of Mommy, and that doesn't work.

She tries to find an alt of Daddy.

[Hi?]
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[Who's this?]
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[Am Pen! Am lost. You one Daddy.]

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[Am I now.]

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[Are many many, you one. Am lost.]

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[Where are you lost?]

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[By door.] She looks around for landmarks. [It not working. Supposed to home, but here!]

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There are street signs at a nearby intersection: Seneca and Claude.

[Where's home, then?]
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[The Eyrie. Sign says 'Seneca' and other is 'Claude'? Green sign.]

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