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[illicitly]

[OOC: Continued from here.]

I would appreciate the help very much, Master Ignis. There's simply so much I don't understand here that I don't even know where to begin! It's all so overwhelming different. I'm sure a lot of it is very useful but...

[How does one begin to figure out the appliances in their home or flying carriages and ship when they didn't even know such things were even possible to begin with?]

I'd thought that many things harnessed the aid of spirits in order to function but some of the tasks seem awfully tedious and repetitive work to ask of a spirit. I haven't noticed anything to suggest their presence yet anyway so I'm at a loss.

[When he says his world is different, Huaisang isn't joking.]

I don't know how what I see is even possible, much less how any of it works or even what some of it is used for. Some of it is even very frightening like those booths. I saw someone going into one and just vanish! If it's not the work of a spirit or some other entity, what could it possibly be?

[And then Huaisang seems to realize that he's starting to vent and looks a bit embarassed at himself, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.]

Ah... I'm sorry, Master Ignis. I didn't mean to dump all of that on you so suddenly.

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There's no need for apologies. And just Ignis is fine.

[ ignis says gently; huaisang is an incredibly polite man, but ignis finds himself liking him enough to gently urge him to dispense with formalities. after all, they're pretty much all trapped in this place together.

he's digesting the other man's tale about spirit aides and sensing them, and it's clear that his world is something strikingly mystical -- although it takes him a moment to realise that he's talking about the elevator. although did that mean that he'd pretty much climbed all the way up those flights of stairs? he blinks. ]

Those booths... You mean that one over there? [ he gestures to the elevator at the far end of the corridor, almost hidden away at the side. ]

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[The gentle approach is certainly the way to go with him, given Huaisang's general state of low-key distress about this place and all its peculiarities.]

I saw people go in that one, too, but when the doors opened again, they were gone! The other ones are outside, on the streets. I can't explain them at all and didn't want to go near them in case they're haunted. It's too scary!

[Huaisang shivers dramatically, edging just a little bit closer as he casts a nervous glance back toward the people-eating doors down the hall.]

The stairs were even worse than the ones at Golden Carp Tower! I was so tired after climbing just one of them! It was so terrible. I had to take a nap after I got to my room...

[He had to exercise. The travesty.]