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[booksleeves]

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[booksleeves]

[Well, here's Susato. She happens to be here with Yelena on the upper floor of the opera house, taking a look around, when the sound of birdsong begins. She'll go try one of the windows to look outside and find that it doesn't budge, and then will go back towards the stairwell and find that that door doesn't budge either.]

Something strange is happening. . .

[spydey]

When I said we should go for a walk, this is not what I had in mind.

[ she goes to look down at the first floor. ]

There are others down there, I think.

[booksleeves]

Ah, yes, I see them. Mr. Lowell, Xie Lian, Miss Monika. . .

[Waving down at them.]

Hello? I think the door is stuck.

[spydey]

Hellooooo!

[ a pause ]

Is there a party going on here or something...

[booksleeves]

. . . Yes, it is quite the coincidence that we all decided to go for a walk through the opera house.

[spydey]

[ she calls out again, ]

Why are you all here?

[ ... ]

Can they not hear me?

[booksleeves]

I can't seem to hear any of them. This is. . . very strange.

Mr. Lowell! Hello! Can you hear me?

[spydey]

[ what the fuck

...

she is going to try to jump off the second floor now give her a moment. ]

[booksleeves]

Miss Ana!

[Eep! Is she okay?]

[spydey]

Shit!

[ well she is just going to fuckin bounce off the barrier then!!! it's fine ]

[booksleeves]

[Susato will try to catch her! They probably both fall over!]

[spydey]

[ they both will definitely fall over.

she just grunts. ]

Well. This sucks.

[booksleeves]

[They both fall over! It's fine.]

You're lucky that did not work! You could have been seriously hurt!

[spydey]

Eh. I'm sure something down there would have cushioned the fall.

[ she'll move to roll over so she's no longer on top of her though. ]

[booksleeves]

Perhaps Xie Lian would have caught you.

[No. Anyway, she'll tear a page out of her book, scribble a note, ball it up, and try to toss it down, but it just bounces back as well.]

We really are trapped here.

[spydey]

But... why? Is it to keep us in here or something out there?

[greatdeduction]

[While the girls are talking, Sholmes is just. Going to try to jump off.]

[Like a fool.]

[Please ignore this.]

[booksleeves]

[Well, she doesn't try to catch him, but.]

Mr. Sholmes! Not you, too!

[greatdeduction]

[He makes it!


[Haha, no. Kidding. He just bounces back. He's stunned for a moment, before jumping up.]

Aha! A barrier! I see! How very thrilling, isn't it?

[spydey]

What did you think I bounced off of...? Am I a mime?

[greatdeduction]

A great detective must always see the evidence for himself, my dear madam. It is what it is.

[booksleeves]

. . . Well. Did you deduce something new about why we are trapped here?

[greatdeduction]

...


It is most elementary. We have....been encased in a glass box, made to be observed like specimens! How dreadfully cruel.


[no]

[booksleeves]

Hmm.

[Oh dear. . . ]

[greatdeduction]

...

Or would it be rubber....rather bouncy for glass....

[booksleeves]

I suppose the better question is not how we are trapped but who decided to do so and why.

[spydey]

And is it just this specific building?

What about everyone else?

[booksleeves]

. . . Yes, that too. I suppose it would be a relief if it were only us, but there's no way to be sure.

[And then around now, the creepy siren song starts playing.]

[spydey]

[ ... ]

Can you hear that or am I hallucinating?

[booksleeves]

No, I can hear that. Is it. . . because we are in the opera house?

[spydey]

Maybe. Is there a recording somewhere that's playing?

[ she'll glance around?? ]