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[Elle sits down in front of the camera, looking decidedly freaked out. Her hair is damp.]

Okay, I was willing to roll with probably being a businesswoman or maybe, like, a really high-class hooker...

[Awkward glance down at her push-up bra and shirt with the plunging neckline.]And then I was in the shower and there was this spider and it kinda

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This guy's definitely balding.

I... looked, but it's not really important. I might've just imagined it. Oh god, what if I'm schizophrenic?

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If you could find it... I mean, maybe I just. Um. There's probably a little wire or something that I just overlooked. Not a big deal. Somebody mentioned that there're public showers. I'll just use those.

spam/assume?

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Alright...

spam it is!

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Fifth floor, room 11.

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[Elle opens the door nervously. What if he's tracking her down from the government laboratory she escaped from? Or is her arch-nemesis? But it would be really suspicious if she avoided him, wouldn't it? Or would that be the smart thing to do?

Flashing a smile at him as she tried to stave off her paranoia, Elle gave him a quick "Hi." before standing aside so he could come inside.]

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"Yeah." [Elle attempted to surreptitiously move over to her desk, where her laptop was open and the picture of the middle-aged man in the suit was displayed. She tried to turn the picture face-down without him noticing. The man in the picture might be... a contact. Something like that.

Or maybe she really was being insane and there was a loose wire. Even though loose wires didn't seem like the kind of thing you found in showers...]

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"I saw a spider on the ceiling, it kinda startled me, and it felt like I'd stuck a fork in the toaster." [Not that she knew what sticking a fork in a toaster felt like... she thought.]

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"Showering again or electrocuting myself again?" [Elle asked with a strained little laugh. Having a stranger in her room was making her progressively more uncomfortable.]