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Take them off then. Hmm...

[they dont have crazy heels though...]

[Why is she having trouble with such low heels what a mystery. Reaching to take them off]

That's better. Okay, now I'm ready to go.

Are you going to be okay barefoot...

Well.

[scoops up her boots and shrinks them smol]

If you need them you can put them back on later.

-Whoa! How did you do that, that's incredible!

[MARVELLING AT TINY SHOES]

We can buy abilities with points. Each unit has their own specific abilities. This is one of Alcheme's!

[offers her the tiny shoes]

So it's something you can do as well once you get the ability.

[Takes the tiny shoes]

Is that what that list on my profile was? This is so cool, can you do it to anything? How many points do abilities cost?

One thousand points! We can do a live later to help start getting you points if you like.

I could do that. One thousand - so that's 6, 000 for all of them, how many points do we get for lives again?

Three hundred for our own live, one hundred and fifty for someone else's. And they can stack. So if someone counterlives in your live you get those points.

There was once a big snowball fight where every unit did a live! It was so much points!

[Laughs]

Everyone playing together does sound nice, I wonder if I can do a live like that. Otherwise that's, let's see, 6, 000 divided by 300-- 20 lives we'll have to do. Which is totally doable, but if I get at least one counterlive each time it would only be...

[Tapping out a pattern on her fingers]

fourteen? I think fourteen lives, hey just how many units are there here again?

...And what's a snowball?

It's snow packed into a ball and you throw them at each other and it's a fun thing for children to do.

[EYES SPARKLE]

That does sound fun! When do we get snow, is it snowing now? Oh, but I really shouldn't go out in bare feet in snow.

Right now it's summer, so no snow for awhile! Maybe later though, in a month or two. Seasons come fast here.

Huh. That's way too quick, what kind of extreme tilt would an axis need to generate that kind of weather... Just how close is Imeeji to the sun? I need to check some things, do we have a telescope around here?

It's magic, not real weather.

We're trapped here by demons, it's probably some small pocket dimension...

Well - even if it's a magical pocket dimension! Are there stars in the sky?

Yes, but I've always assumed they're fake.

The demons are really powerful, you know.

That makes sense, if they're demons, but... I don't know, I don't want to just accept 'magic' as the reason for everything, there's no harm in checking it out is there?

No harm, no. Just be prepared to feel frustrated.

I'll go into my studies with low expectations, promise.

Good. Ah...

Shall I tell you the big depressing thing so that we can cheer up with cake after?

[Deep breath]

Yeah, okay, I'm ready. Hit me.

We're essentially a show to be watched outside our dorm. The demons are also called the producers. The producers will force us into games. Some are fine. No big deal.

In some we'll be forced to hurt people or be hurt ourselves. People get killed in these games but after the games any who die are brought back to life.

If you try to kill yourself in a game to avoid being hurt or hurting someone else they will torture you. Please do not do it.

Alcheme tends to play in the middle. Not going all out to protect ourselves since we don't want to hurt others. But not doing nothing either.

I know everything I just said is extremely awful to hear.

[IT SURE IS SHE LOOKS TERRIFIED]

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is not great.

But. One day you will be able to go home and this will all be behind you.