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[When the camera comes on, all you see is a very large face; it's also upside-down. The person on the other end blinks, turning the device around, peering closely at it. She doesn't seem to realize that she's turned it on.] Why do I feel like that if I shake this thing too hard, it's going to blow up in my face?

[She pulls it back, and though the image is still upside-down, it's now clear that the face belongs to a young woman wearing an outfit resembling a bedlah. Oh, and the curtain of purple behind her? It's her hair, and there's a lot of it.] I... don't think I should trust something this small that talks. How the heck does it even work? There's no dynamo or steam generator or anything like that.

And it doesn't feel magic. [She leans back in, and audibly sniffs the device.] Doesn't smell magic, either. Boy, Uncle Mimic would have a field day with this thing.

...hey, that red light wasn't always on the front, was it? What the heck does "recording" mean?

[And realization.] Ah, crud.

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It gets colder?! Geez, at least Frostbite Island had the decency to put it right in the name!

[But it's so nice and warm in here.] So... how acceptable is it to stay inside until it stops doing the weird frosty thing?

If you have zero obligations and no intention of ever interacting with anyone you don't live with, don't need to eat and don't need to have funds with which to buy food? I'm sure you could get away with it.

...I'm still weighing my options.

It doesn't get this cold where I come from.

Oh, trust me, I'm a desert girl myself. I fully sympathize. Maybe a good coat can help, at least.

A coat? Oh, like that thing my uncle always wears!

You know, now that you mention it, I always wondered why he wasn't just boiling every day in that thing. Maybe you get colder when you get old.

Have you really only ever encountered one coat in your life?

...maaaaybe?

Hypno Baron's outfit is more like a cloak, I don't even know what you'd call Techno Baron's getup... oh! Ammo Baron and his soldiers wear coats!

Or are they jackets?

[ Kanaya just shakes her head and shrugs, she's pretty sure the train of this conversation left hr behind a few stops ago. ]

Well, coats are jackets, just with more padding.

Then I've actually seen a ton of coats, if the Ammonian Army uniforms count.

--oh, does it affect anything if they're sewn out of magic carpet fiber? It's still a coat, it just... flies.

Um. Is it still being worn? With sleeves and that?

Yeah, that was the whole point. He thought it'd give him an army that could fly.

And I guess it did, for a little bit, 'til I kicked their butts.

I have to be honest, the coats seem like the least important part of every anecdote you're sharing.

Now that you point it out, I guess you're right.

Wow, I got a little side-tracked there, didn't I? But those are all the coats I've seen anyone wear where I'm from.

You're right, I probably just asked the wrong question.

Here's a better one: would you like a coat?

...yes. Yes, I would like a coat.

Alright, then. There's a problem I can solve!

Where have they sent you?

You mean the house they gave me? It's in that city Nonah, and it's... number six, I think?

I'm not going outside to check the number, though.

Well! Would you look at that, I suppose that's what happens when I'm at the office when they send over new arrivals.

It seems we're sharing a house.

Huh? Really? They didn't tell me there was anyone else here!

The house was empty when I got here, too, so I just... put my stuff in my room. [Where she has been huddled under blankets ever since.]

You must have lucked into one of the empty ones, then. We also have an older woman named Peggy. [ "Older" being fairly relative, Kanaya's still pretty young. ] And one other we're holding. Its former occupant hasn't yet been gone long enough for the possibility of her return to be unlikely.

...what's that supposed to mean? How often do people go missing around here?

Oh, don't misunderstand. She isn't missing, she's just at home, back to her source world.

It doesn't happen everyday, exactly, but it is in no way an uncommon occurrence.

Oh.

So people just randomly go back, just how we randomly get pulled here? That seems like it'd be a little... inconvenient.

The situation isn't really built with our convenience in mind. We're unwilling transients hosted on an unwilling world.

There's no way to change it, so everyone just has to deal with it.

I guess so, but it's still kinda weird, don't you think?

--I guess it doesn't really matter. So it's the three of us here for now?

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