"Great." She leads the way out into the hall, pointing out doors. "Bathroom, my bedroom, and your bedroom. Let's take a quick glance before heading downstairs, that way you can start percolating decoration ideas while we grab clothes."

Inside, the walls are a soft, pale grey, while the pillows and blankets and dresser are a lighter violet and the metal fittings and handles and knobs are all silvery. There is not yet a desk, but there's room to put one. The walls are bare at the moment, ready for the Songbirds to pick out decorations they likes. The closet and dresser have more than enough room for all the clothes they bought today and then some.

Audrey looks around the room, getting a sense of where the windows are and where the best location for a desk might be. 

"It doesn't look very lived in at the moment, but I guess we'll just have to change that, hm?" She smiles. 

"Yep. Was the guest bedroom, pretty rarely used. Needs a bunch of stuff on the walls picked out by you three. Or maybe a cute suncatcher for the window. Or anything else you think up."

And out they go to the entryway. "D'you wanna come down to the car with me, or just start ferrying bags up to your room after I bring the first load?"

"I can come down to the car and grab stuff, yeah. I want to try on my new outfits!" She smiles and bounces a little on her toes. "I like being princessy but it would be too samey to have the same clothes all the time." 

"Okay! How I usually bring stuff in from the car is trips to the entryway, to avoid having to put my shoes on and off multiple times."

"Oh, then what we should do is do it bucket chain style -" 

Sable giggles fondly and ruffles Audrey's hair. "You adorable dork. That's what I was talking about originally, with you ferrying them up to your room." Then she squeezes her tightly.

"Oh! I thought you were offering to bring them all the way up for me, which would be very kind of you but not something I wanted you to have to do alone!" Audrey giggles. "I guess I missed an important word or two in there, huh?" 

She ducks her head and rubs the back of it. "Sorry, I'll try to be a little more on my game. And yeah, let's do it bucket chain style. That'll be faster and then we can get back to exploring what there is to do for fun around here." 

"Nothing to apologize for, sweetie. Mistakes happen. And yeah, sounds like a plan."

Out she goes to the car, arms full of bags, and back up to deposit the first load of clothes.

Audrey takes the bags in hand and darts up the stairs to bring them to her room, and on goes the bucket chain! 

This is kind of fun actually. She's used to doing this with groceries but doing it with new clothes in an alien world is more exciting. 

It is fun. Sable can take bigger loads than Audrey can, what with being a whole-ass adult, so it only takes her two more trips to get everything from the car. Then she pulls her shoes back off and starts taking bags upstairs too.

Once Sable comes in and starts bringing bags up, Audrey goes up to her room with the bags and starts unpacking them and putting her new clothes away in the closet and the dressers, trusting Sable to get the last few packages. 

"Thank you!", Audrey chirps when Sable comes into her bedroom, and waits for her to set down her load before giving her a firm hug.

Awww, yay.

She hugs her new foster-daughter tightly.

"Gladly, sweetheart. Absolutely gladly. Got any thoughts on decor? Or types of desk? Or whether you want a laptop or a desktop, which might influence the desk question?"

"That's a good question. That... hmmm." She frowns. "A laptop is more flexible, you can take it more places, but taking them anywhere involves going out into public and frankly I do not trust this world's public to be cool about my computer use. Especially if the repression about sex and the minors not having rights intersect really badly, which I kind of expect they do. So having a laptop would only really make me able to use it in more places in this house, which..."

She considers the question for a moment. 

"... It's not no utility. I think the main thing is that I could have a laptop in bed, which would be a partial replacement for the use case of my phone which I don't think your world quite has sorted out yet. They're absolutely ubiquitous in my world - they're basically an extension of your brain and body. Some people have them set up to control their aesthetic-limbs, even! Gosh, Foxbox is going to miss hers if we're stuck here for a while..."

She shakes her head. "So - laptop, I think, unless you can get me a phone as well that's actually up to the task, I don't know where the technology is at for you. Does that makes sense?"

"Phones are not that good yet. We've got the iPhone, which is a very flashy touchscreen device but doesn't let you customize it very far yet. I'd bet money people are working on jailbreaking it, but they're not there yet. There are little businessy things with tiny keyboards, but those aren't going to compare. There's non-zero chance I could figure out how to make your world's network protocols play nice with the local stuff, but that's a months-long project at minimum. Similar with charging. So that means laptop and a decent lap-desk to keep it from overheating in the blankets or cooking your thighs."

"Sounds good to me. Grilled Audrey thigh is not on the menu anytime soon."

Why did she phrase it like that? There was something about her auntie, something she tried to forget deliberately... Oh, it was probably about her sex life, wasn't it — okay, setting aside that train of thought for the moment...

That may be a thing about more than just her auntie. 

But Sable is not going to dwell on that. She's in fact not going to let that reaction show for longer than a tiny fraction of a second.

"So lap-desk and laptop. What sorts of things do you want to do on your laptop? There are games, word processors, organizational software, web browsers, art programs, and more."

"Definitely a word processor! I write for fun though I'm not very good... yet?" She tilts her head. "Okay, that feels funky. My twenty-year-old memories say I've been writing that whole time. Go future me. I also would want... games, and maybe an art program to mess around with - I can do basic compositional stuff but don't know any advanced techniques or anything, but that's kind of an artform in itself on my world. A lot of artists make their works available for derivatives, sometimes for a small fee, sometimes for free. Sometimes I make minigames and stuff with that stuff. And of course I would want a web browser, though the internet is... probably much less friendly here."

"The internet here is growing, and has some neat things built on it, but it's definitely not the friendliest place. I'm not going to restrict what you can access, but I'm definitely going to make a point to set up all the basic software and security you need in advance, and strongly recommend you talk to me before installing anything. But yeah, that's enough that I can figure out what laptop to buy. Now what about a desk and some decorations to personalize the place?"

"A desk would be nice! And maybe a silk plant or model kit of one? I can't keep real plants alive, I always neglect them for far too long. And some... hmmm. Wall art of some kind, but I doubt you have my favorite series here..."

"Clearly we'll have to get a couple things that don't require you to have seen the show or movie yet, and then show you all the good stuff this world has managed. And frankly I can't keep up with plants either. But those are some good ideas. What do you think about suncatchers?"

"I'd love a fox one for my window, if there's a good design on offer."

"There probably is. We'll check a few stores, and if all else fails there might be one at the farmer's market on the weekend. They sometimes have craft booths too."

"For tonight, though, I think I've had quite enough excitement for one day. Can I have that book back I was reading? I'd like to curl up in bed for a while, at least until supper."