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> Find your stolen clothing, change out of these pajamas, then leave.
What this place is, is a place she doesn't want to be in. Easy as that. Ignoring Dumbbell's permanent smile, she sets out to scrounge around for her belongings so she can leave.
Dumbbell: Oh; are you looking for your own cellphone? I think it's over there, in that drawer.
You can't 'think' something is 'over there' in your own place; that's what Rin mumbles to herself in anger. Yet, then again, her own room is a mess; when we don't like someone, even the way they hold a cup is a trigger. The cellphone is there, at least, so Rin picks it up- but no sign of her clothes yet.
Dumbbell: ...Oh! Could you be looking for your school uniform, Rin? If that's so, it's in the next wagon over there, but-
Wagon? The door Rin stumbles upon as she turns around, elegant as it looks, does open to a very similar room but only after a certain gap on the floor. Rin turns around, and around. This is a train.
Dumbbell: Over there.
At some point Dumbbell managed to get close enough to make Rin sweat, so Rin pushes her back. Eww. In silence, she walks up to the antique coal stove. Her uniform, still dripping wet, hangs crudely over it- but Rin knows she'll make it dry faster by sheer force of will
so she can get away of the smily thing standing next to her.
Dumbbell: I'm sorry. I did what I could. To be honest, I am no good when it comes to practical things- even some that most would consider basic.
She giggles.
Dumbbell: I get scolded by Dolores a lot, even though I'm supposed to be her senpai.
Rin doesn't giggle. Rin doesn't even look at her. That thing must watch those super safe family friendly cartoons about bunnies playing tag.
Dumbbell: My clothes wouldn't fit you, but- Dolores keeps spares here too. Oh! And we have some left-overs from that fashion competition we held two weeks ago. Would you like to see if something fits you?
No. Wearing something other girl already wore is GAY. Talking to gay people is gay. Gay people have to be bullied so they stop being gay and people don't bully them anymore-
-but bullying a gay Coordinator seems risky even to Rin. The girl has her own train. That has to mean something.
Dumbbell: ...then again, maybe those would be too flashy for you? Rin is still such a young girl after all, your thirteen birthday is just around the corner.
No. No. NO; Rin's two wandering neurons finally connect in the wasteland that is her brain. If the thing saw her naked... if the thing had to wash her... that means that the thing TOUCHED her!
Dumbbell: Oh; that's right. Neither of you have undergone coordination yet. I do have to charge for this service, and Dolores even put that poster over there to remind me not to do it, but... Rin? Is everything alright?
Dumbbell's concern is founded, because Rin is /this/ close to breaking into tears. No, no, no, crying is SO gay aaaAAAA!
>But- noooooOOoO!
