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A bnuuy wakes up in Thomassia
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"I really think I should take that nap, if that's fine with you."

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"Of course! Sleeping when you want is important. It's good for your brainpower!"

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So, on the one hand these are travel clothes and thus Dirty and she'd rather not sleep in them.

On the other hand she'd really love to nap Right About Now.

Yeah, no, she'll change out of them for the nap.

"I'd set up an alarm, but until I can find a way to charge my phone I should probably keep it off so it still has battery if for some reason I'd need it. Could you wake me up in... 40 minutes I guess?"

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"I'll knock once that time has gone, OK?" She takes out her phone and taps a few buttons. "40 minutes starting now?" she asks.

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"Yes, thank you!"

She says her farewells to Lina and, as soon as she's left, Bonnie locks the door, gets into her pajama as quickly as possible, and then flomps on the bed and quickly falls asleep.

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There is a loud static, then a somewhat garbled voice says, very loudly:

"Wien. Nächster Halt: Wien."

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Bluhrgh?

She jerks awake, and finds herself on the sleeper train, in her pajama, as it slowly rolls into Wien central station.

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"Ausstieg in Fahrtrichtung rechts. Bitte beachten Sie den Spalt zwischen Zug und Bahnsteig. Sehr geehrte Fahrgäste, dieser Zug endet hier. Wir bitten Sie auszusteigen und verabschieden uns von Ihnen."

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Was it all a dream? Well, no matter, she needs to get ready and get out of the train!

She changes into her day clothes, which are neatly folded haphazardly strewn on the seat next to her, then folds balls up her pajama, chucks it at the top of her bag and hurries out of the train.

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This is - in fact - Wien!

She can tell, because it looks just like the pictures she saw online!

... the big blue sign with "Wien Hauptbahnhof" on it is also a decent clue.

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She feels well rested, like... well, like she slept for the whole travel and just wake up.

Definitely not like she just fell asleep for a nap.

So it probably was a dream. Oh well, it was an interesting one! She hopes it's one of those dreams that recur, so she will be able to talk to those people again. They seemed kind!

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Ok, priorities.

If there is a thing she learned from the dream is that... she missed her mum. She should probably text her, let her know that she's fine... and that she's sorry for not saying anything but just getting out of the house and leaving with just a note.

In her defense, if she had explained her plan her mum would have probably said no. Which. Uh. Maaaaaaybe she would have had a point?

She grabs her phone from the front pocket where she put it last night and -

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Where is her phone???

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She's sure she had put it in the front pocket, but it's not there. In the dream she had tossed it at the bottom of her clothes, because she didn't expect she'd need it, but that was a dream, right?

She checks there anyway, and... that's where she finds it.

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"Ma!But!)"

This makes no sense. If that was a dream, why is her phone underneath her clothes. The compartment was locked and nothing is missing anyway and who would even do that.

If it wasn't a dream, why is she here now? What was that?

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She fell asleep in Italy, and woke up (or dreamed of waking up) somewhere else. She fell asleep (or dreamed of falling asleep) somewhere else and woke up in Austria.

She should probably... try to take a nap now and see what happens? But it's not safe to sleep in such a public place, with all her belongings there.

She could take the first train home, but then she would use up all her remaining savings, and not even get the chance to properly visit!

She should call her mum first.

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As the train leaves the station she looks outside the window, the last light of day is about to lose its struggle with the night, and the lit up windows make her want to know each story, each life.

It's been a long day, and it doesn't take long until she dozes off...

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Bonnie is interrupted by someone knocking. "It's been the 40 minutes?" a familiar voice says.

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Bllghrtf?

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Well. This sure isn't the train.

She feels well rested, even though with all the world hopping (world! hopping! she has magical powers!!!) her circadian should be completely out of wack. It seems that her body internal clock runs... separately for either?

"Thank you! I will dress up and then maybe we can look into the next steps?"

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"What do you want them to be?" Lira sounds both excited and inviting.

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"Probably a phone! Do you have something like Wikipedia?"

Wait, the word would make no sense to them, would it?

"Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can read and modify for free, and it's built by people across the globe. There is one for each language. Oh. Uh. Would there be one for English? The language we're currently speaking, I mean."

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"Yes, there is! And when  it comes to phones, that's right. You get a phone, so you know how big it is and how big the pockets in your clothes should be. Do you think we should just... get started now?"

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