THE RED ROOM

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[murimurimuri]

From the circus. I'm an animal trainer.

[There's also a fat white cat sitting on the couch with him, a monkey climbing up the curtains, and a couple of hummingbirds buzzing around overhead]

[thebabebowsout]

They just threw you in prison with a friggin' zoo? Oh my god, I don't even know why I'm tryin' to make sense of this shit at this point! Someone's gotta pinch me hard enough to wake me up from the past, like, week! There's just no way this is all for real!

[murimurimuri]

What else has happened to you this week?

[thebabebowsout]

[wow do I ever not want to talk about that. wow is it ever obvious on my face how much I don't want to talk about that]

Just--forget it, it's complicated, isn't this bad enough? I don't even know where the fuck we are!

[murimurimuri]

...Sorry. I guess I've been hoping somebody has a better idea about what's going on than I do.

[thebabebowsout]

's fine . . . I don't know shit, though. I just--woke up like this, like all of us did. That is what all of us did, right?

[murimurimuri]

I think so. That's what everybody says...

Do you know anybody here?

[thebabebowsout]

I didn't go lookin' into every cell, but not so far. Do any of us even have anything in common? Or d'you all know each other?

[murimurimuri]

Besides the animals, two of my friends are here.

[indicates Knightley and Dogen]

[thebabebowsout]

[well Fukawa showed up at exactly the right moment. he points over to her, gesturing in wild surprise]

Her, I know her! What the hell's she--doing here . . .

[maybe she killed someone too?!]

[murimurimuri]

Er...

[just watches this for a minute]

Do you two want to be alone?

[thebabebowsout]

Hell no! Like, look at her!

[SERIOUSLY LOOK AT HER WHY WOULD I EVEN THINK ABOUT TAPPING THAT]

[murimurimuri]

[looks at her]

. . .

So uh. I was going to ask if you maybe wanted to team up with us...

[thebabebowsout]

Huh? . . . Team up? 's that what this red room, yellow room thing's all about?

[murimurimuri]

I don't know about that, but Horace and I were thinking... what if we all filled these out together?

[thebabebowsout]

The survey things? What's the point of those? I don't see why we gotta team up to answer some questions. It's not like it's math homework.

[murimurimuri]

Well... it's like some kind of popularity contest, right? So in that case, wouldn't it be better if you have a lot of votes for you?

[thebabebowsout]

Well, yeah, of course! That's the point of a popularity contest! What'd he say about it again . . . we'd get parole if we win?

[it's just like "graduating" . . . ]

[murimurimuri]

Right. So our idea was, what if we all vote for each other? Maybe we can all make parole together.

[thebabebowsout]

You really think it's that easy? I guess they might be doin' the same thing in the other room . . . I didn't even think about the form thing yet. I was just gonna answer whatever I felt like.

[murimurimuri]

You don't think it's even worth trying?

[thebabebowsout]

I didn't say that, just that I didn't think about it before!

[murimurimuri]

We're going to put Dogen as the best, Horace as the coolest, and me as the friendliest... do you see yourself as the handsomest or the smartest?

[thebabebowsout]

[HA. HA. HA]

Totally the handsomest, I'm not some nerd or somethin'. It's Kuwata Leon, by the way!

[murimurimuri]

Simon Keyes. Nice to meet you.