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Date & Time: January 21; afternoon to evening.
Location: Around in town / in the apartment building.
Characters: Rin Asano and YOU.
Summary: Rin was outside when the timeline discrepancy caught her! GOSH! Now her young self is blundering around in a state of confused terror through the streets! WOE! Someone help this poor girl. Though if you catch her in the apartment buildings later she'll just be tiny and exploring.
Warnings: Rin is a marshmallow there are no warnings for her

Outside;

[If she didn't vaguely remember the Port, she'd be frozen in a corner somewhere like a terrified rabbit, aching to find mommy and daddy or grandpa or somebody. As it is, although the streets are completely unfamiliar and utterly overwhelming, Rin's terror is such that she gets noisy rather than clamming up.

She is pretty alarmed by everyone right now. In spite of only being between six and seven years old, and not with the longest legs or the greatest endurance, she moeyves with surprising agility.]

Hey! I'm a transport! Heyyyyy!

[She doesn't want to be grabbed! She's actually quite baby-fatted up and tame, but unwilling to be restrained at the moment as she patters through the crowds, dashing with high-strung aimlessness. At the edge of overwrought tears the whole time. WHERE on earth is someone she KNOWS. HELP.]

Madokaaaaaaaa. [Her roommate. HER ROOMMATE IS A SWEET PINK CREAM PUFF SURELY MADOKA WOULDN'T BE MEAN TO HER. Her face is so red help she's so close to bawling] Colleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeete. I'M LOST AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE I AM. Help meeee. HEEEEELP.

[Completely wracked with melodrama right now, if someone approached her and wasn't overly grabby she'd settle back down into tameness soon enough.]

In the apartments;

[... You can't keep a little girl down for long. She's frightened, of course. She's without adult supervision. But the thing is even for spoiled little goody two-shoeses they display a sense of adventure some of the time. Besides, Rin is a curious girl. It was always going to kill her eventually and it certainly won't stop her from venturing out of home base at last.

So she explores. Hot damn does she explore. There's not that much to see out here in the halls but she is just so curious and what's up with this place anyway. She vaguely has a sense of it all seeming kind of samey and boring and unremarkable to the self that was here before (what's up with that?????) but not finding it that interesting. Her other self was crazy or something? WHO KNOWS.

She pussyfoots through the halls. It's impossible to get too lost in a building, right? (Little does she know. SHE COULD GET SO HORRENDOUSLY LOST.) In the meantime she pussyfoots over the carpet, she peeps around corners at a low level. She is dying to see everything and who knows? Maybe there's someone around here to play with.]

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[Fucking stupid human-kids... When he was her age, he was at least twice as smart.]

...

You look familiar. And thound kind of familiar...

[Nooot answering the 'what are you' question though. Not again. Deal with it.]

Do you remember this place at all?

[She is legit pretty pathetic right now, staring at him with watery eyes and drippy sniffly nose. Rin herself would wither with embarrassment.]

Noooo! I don't know. I want my mom and dad. My dad is in charge of the Asano Dojo! He'll be really nice to whoever takes me back! I'm his only daughter!

... Uh. Well. Okay. I'll thee if I can find him. What'th your firtht name?

Rin. [Gosh she hopes that wasn't a terrible mistake, telling him her name! What if he's a child-stealing monster and can only steal her once he knows her name?] Who are you?

[Suddenly all apprehension about this child is gone.]

... Wait. Oh shit. Hahahaha. You're fucking Rin.

Huh?!

I know you when you're older. My name'th Thollux. You make fun of my name, and I'll punch your nose in.

[Meanwhile, he only looks like he's five years older...]

[She gulps a sob. INSTANTLY. Baby Rin cries every fifteen seconds, when the circumstances are right. THESE ARE RIGHT.]

I-I'm not making fun!

Okay, good. You do when you're older. You're also kind of a bitch when you're older, so don't do that. I'm giving you flawleth life lessonsth here. But thince you're being nice now, I'll help you out. At the very leatht, I can take you back to your apartment room.

You're saying bad words. [So scandalized, still dripping tears. She scrubs at her red eyes with clenched fists and sniffles. Thinking this through is REALLY HARD.]

What are you?

I'm...

... Human. I'm jutht drethed like thith for a contetht. Look, do you want my help or not?

[Obviously she just believes him, though his "getup" gets a really unnerved look still - how would she know? She can't stop sniffling and still needs to be wiping at her face, but she does nod.]

O-okay...

Alright. Tho, do you know what room you're in? Were you given a key?

When I woke up I was out here. [Sollux help. She steps forward a little, practically vibrating with terror, and reaches for his hand. SHE REALLY NEEDS A HAND RIGHT NOW OK.]

[Ugh. When he was your age he was killing beasts three times his size. Human wimp babies.

But he holds her hand anyway.]

Well... maybe they have your key at the front desk, if you don't have one on you. Let'th go.

[Aaand off towards the apartment building.]

[She sticks her free thumb in her mouth for comfort and goes along with him. Her legs are kind of stumpy but she manages to keep up pretty well. Also she's too nervous right now to be chatty.]

[Sollux leads her to the apartment complex, slower than normal since stumpy baby legs. Silence.]

[Rin puffs along and clings in silence. She's actually a chatty brat, but right now she's... kind of still too scared too. A much squishier creature than her adult self.]

[Aaand at the complex they arrive. Sollux, still holding her hand, leads her to the front desk.]

Do you think you'll be okay from here?

... Nuh-uh.

[DON'T LEAVE HER ALONE, STRANGE FRIGHTENING AND FOUL-MOUTHED ADULT.]

... Really. Okay, fuck. Fine.

[So he asks the desk attendant for "Rin's" housekey. The attendant asks "Rin who." Sollux replies "I don't know her last name, Rin-This-Fucking-Kid-Right-Here."

Eventually, the key is handed over, and Sollux heads towards the elevator.]

But I'm jutht bringing you to your room. Then you're on your own definitely.