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[silkhidingsteel]

A) Action / 768 Bunker Street / Locked to housemates:

[When Lizzie first wakes up, it's silently. Though she does panic a bit, she quickly composes herself and roots around in the drawers and closet, looking for her things. When she can't find them, she'll start doing the same in the hallway closets and other rooms, working her way downstairs.

Should she come across anyone as she goes, you had better be either really fast at dodging or fall to the ground as quick as you can: this girl is trying to spin-kick you in the face (or whatever part of the body her not-terribly-long legs will reach).]

B) Phone:

Hello, operator? Would you please connect me to Ciel Phantomhive?

[There's a pause, and the girl sounds on the verge or either yelling or crying.]

No answer? Ohh, is there no one at all who can help me? This is awful, just awful!

C) Action / Bodine Fashion:

[Outside of the clothing store, a young girl is leaning up against the window, eyeing the dresses inside.]

These clothes... How terrible! There's nothing cute about them at all, and they're so short. How can anyone even think of wearing these?

[It's all terribly scandalous, by her tone.]

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[corrodes]

[The Handmaid is good at being fast. Sidestepping, she grabs the nearest utensil--a spoon, but she can do damage with a spoon if she has to.]

Explain yourself.

[silkhidingsteel]

That's my question! If you thought I was going to take being kidnapped quietly, you were mistaken!

[Lizzie glances around, and spying a broom, inches toward it. Better not to go without a weapon, here.]

sorry this is so late you don't have to reply if you don't want to

[corrodes]

If I was the one who kidnapped you you wouldn't have been able to wander about as you are.

[Handmaid looks as dismissive as ever.]

it's fine! :)

[silkhidingsteel]

[Lizzie looks annoyed as she grabs the broom and holds it out like a saber.]

If that is so, explain why I woke up in a strange house without any of my clothes or belongings!

[corrodes]

[Handmaid watches her.]

You have been kidnapped, as you correctly assumed. However, everyone you will meet here, except perhaps the drones and those who run this prison, has been brought here as you have.

[Handmaid has no pity for a lack of belongings of clothes; she's still missing her proper body.]

[silkhidingsteel]

You are a victim as well, then?

[She considers this for a moment before lowering the broom. She keeps a hand on it just in case, though.]

My apologies! I seem to have made my decision too hastily.

[corrodes]

[Handmaid can't blame the girl for making the hasty decision--she herself attacked the first person she saw here. Of course, Handmaid won't acknowledge that sort of thing, either, so she doesn't reply to the apology in favor of providing at least something of an explanation.]

This place is called Mayfield, and you are expected to live here as long as you reside within its borders.

[silkhidingsteel]

Then I shall have to leave promptly! I have no desire to stay here any longer than I have to.

[Translation: Screw the rules, I'm busting out.]

[corrodes]

No way of escape has made itself available. The edges of the town exist in a loop, and I expect this holds true with the sky.

[silkhidingsteel]

A "loop"? What does that mean, exactly?

[She tilts her head, obvious confused.]

[corrodes]

If you try to leave town you simply find yourself returning to it.

[silkhidingsteel]

--That's not possible! Things like that only happen in stories!

[corrodes]

It would be simple enough, with the right skills, to arrange such a prison.

[There are a lot of weird skills in Handmaid's world, really.]