doors are complicated

[campanas]

Pen' was just going to go practice singing. (She likes singing. The words are all lined up for her already and she doesn't get them wrong.) But this doesn't look like the practice room. So it's probably the magic restaurant.

Pen knows about the magic restaurant! You can go in it, and get food or things to drink (she has bracelets!) and then you just go back out the door and it's been no time at all and you're right where you went in.

She goes in. She is going to have cake.

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[campanas]

[Are many many, you one. Am lost.]

[manofmyword]

[Where are you lost?]

[campanas]

[By door.] She looks around for landmarks. [It not working. Supposed to home, but here!]

[manofmyword]

There are street signs at a nearby intersection: Seneca and Claude.

[Where's home, then?]

[campanas]

[The Eyrie. Sign says 'Seneca' and other is 'Claude'? Green sign.]

[manofmyword]

[Is that so,] he says interestedly. [Is there a big ugly building nearby - grey brick, rust coming down the sides, and headless gargoyles everywhere?]

There is indeed! It's across the street.

[campanas]

[Yes! So ugly.]

[manofmyword]

[It usedta be a library,] he says. [I do my grocery shopping near there.]

[campanas]

[Am lost. Door won't working. Help?]

[manofmyword]

[I can't fix your door,] he says, [but if you give me a few minutes I can take you back to my place and make you breakfast.]

[campanas]

[Okay.]

[manofmyword]

[What's your name again, kiddo?]

[campanas]

[Pen-in-nah. Pen.]

[manofmyword]

[Nice name.]

[campanas]

[Mommy studented for one oracle named it!]

[manofmyword]

[And what's an oracle do?]

[campanas]

[Read spaceship words.]

[manofmyword]

[I don't have the first clue what that means,] he admits serenely.

[campanas]

[Is -] Pen sighs. [Is complicated. I grammar bad.]

[manofmyword]

[I noticed,] he says. [That's all right. No rush.]

[campanas]

[Is a spaceship Mommy captains. Named Jovah. It writes for oracles! Alleya's one. Is secret spaceship. People think it a god.]

[manofmyword]

After a moment, he says, [Sounds like you're even farther from home than I thought.]

[campanas]

[So lost. Door won't working.]

[manofmyword]

[What's this door supposed to do, exactly?]

[campanas]

[Supposed go nice bar, then home! Goed nice bar. Then here.]