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[there are no tears on her face this time -- she showered! -- but she still wears the expression of someone who's spent a few days locked up in her room and mourned someone. now there's just determination, and grim misery.]

Well -- from what I've gathered, we all have places to be other than this. But it turns out the thing I was trying to prevent happened -- [an angry, pained twitch of her jaw; she presses her lips together and looks away.] Anyway. [the transmission switches to text.]

HOTEL

No exists available.
So far, no staff.
Room service doesn't work.
Elevator doesn't work.
Screening room plays No Sferatu on a loop but the projector is too old school to admit that sort of setting.
Haven't tested where climbing out the windows takes us.

'GUESTS'

We've been kidnapped, no 'welcome' card will make up for it.
Why are we here: unknown.
Different realities? Timelines?
Some people will believe in magic but they won't buy a nineteen year old being the youngest zero-g mechanic in 52 years. (Glad to see sexism never dies.)
My scientific conclusion is that this is fucked up.

Feel free to complete with whatever, if you think it'll be useful.

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Plan B is less optimistic than a BOX? I hate plan B already.

It became a fly. It fit inside the box.

[ ... He concedes that ]

It sounds ridiculous.

It is ridiculous. What is this thing?

It's a trickster fox spirit. A nogitsune. And it's trapped inside a teenager's body.

Wow evil spirit re-experiencing puberty. Painful. That sounds worse than the box. So is Stiles in there somewhere?

They separated. By the time he claims to be from. The hotel trapped him inside Stiles' body. But, that's it. It's his body, nothing else.

That is probably the creepiest thing I've ever heard and at least ten kinds of disgusting but I'm with you.

It sounded disgusting.

[ He threw up bandages. ]

What are the chances it's pretending to be separate to bait us into hurting Stiles? "Chaos," and all.

Low. It's behaving differently here. We have reason to believe it has less power. A lot less. Maybe half.

In my experience, people don't need superpowers to be super evil.

It's not evil. It doesn't believe in evil. Or, good.

Pretty sure you don't have to believe in something for it to be real. It's going around threatening to murder people, that's pretty much maximum evil.

It's survival. We don't condone it and the first wrong move it makes, it will regret.

Yeah survival as an excuse for murder wasn't convincing the first time someone tried to play that card with me either.

[ and she has exactly zero reason to have any inner turmoil about accepting it from the nogitsune, like she did with ward. ]

It's not an excuse. I'm not excusing it. For all we care, it can be strung up. I'd do it myself

[ But, Alpha's orders. ]

Then we need to have a plan ready for when it does try to cross that line.

We don't want to alarm anyone.

I'd say the PSA about killing Stiles and asking who will be next was PRETTY DAMN ALARMING

Everything about being here is alarming.

Exactly. So not wanting to alarm anyone? Kind of a wasted effort.

Everything here is easier said than done.

False. Have you turned on your shower? These are like the easiest shower knobs I've ever seen.

I stand corrected.

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