Second floor common room, Tuesday afternoon

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae had decided today was a good day to have a lazy afternoon. She had her crappy (actually, perfectly servicable) tote bag she'd made in class to decorate, a whole bottle of white-out to stink the place up with, and she'd barely watched any TV since she'd gotten here, so she had lots of shows she could catch up on.

Theoretically, anyway. All she could find were weird preteen sitcoms, where kids were excited to get to go to school, and everyone spent the majority of their time screaming.

"Where's the sells-weed-out-behind-the-equipment-shed character?" she wondered, as she watched two girls freak out about being caught rearranging the letters on a highway sign. "Or the 'burnouts vaping in the stairwell' characters? These shows are so unrealistic."

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[thishouseishaunted]

"My town can't even get cellphone service," Mae said. "We barely have regular intelligence."

Much less artificially created intelligence.

[justice_undone]

"Do you miss it?"

People missed all sorts of places, or they could be happy to leave the place where they grew up.

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae shrugged. "Not really."

A beat.

"I miss the trains."

She hadn't entirely realized that until right then.

[justice_undone]

"Where do you go on them?" Breq asked. "Around town?"

[I thought I had pinged back]