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Shee giggled at Lai's description of his glasses. "They sound perfectly suited for you. Just what I was picturing."

At Lai's offer, she started. "Oh no! I was just saying. You don't have to make anything for me. It's better if I don't eat anything else anyways. I haven't gone over to the training facility for so long..."

"Hopefully!" Shee laughed as she imagined Lai as something scary... with glasses. "Although I don't think you can be anything scary with glasses. That just sort of ruins the illusion. Monsters aren't supposed to be farsighted."

She jumped up as he continued. Waiting was not her strong suit. "Yes! Come on!"

Pushing open the door a little too eagerly, she winced as it made contact with the wall, and then forgetting it almost immediately, bounced down the hallway.

"Come on Lai!"

"You're going to have to do better than that as a member of LOTUS!" Shee teased, as they rounded on the atrium, her voice echoing, bouncing back across the vast white walls and reaching into the impossibly high ceilings before fading out.

Shee reached the stairs that led up to the residences, and slowed down a bit, remembering the last incident involving stairs, Sebastien, and a lot of ice cream.

Shee laughed with delight as Lai caught up to her. She turned back to look at him.

"Yes. My room's all the way at the end, by the south grounds. It does take a while to get around, but I wouldn't have it any either way."

She began to hum a quiet little melody to herself, amplified by the high walls of the hallway they were now walking down. "There are too many hallways here."

Stopping in front of a jali door, she looked at Lai again and couldn't keep the teasing tone out of her voice. "Now, don't be mad that you don't have a room quite as big as mine. Senority, remember?"

The door opened to reveal a room at odds with the pristine blankness of the rest of the compound. Bright, jewel-toned silks draped every corner of the space, and intricate, jali arabesque trailed up the walls. Shee walked across the long, rectangular main space and turned left and through a cusped arch complete with a deep, rich purple curtain, brushing it lightly. She kneeled in front of a dark wooden chest, open to reveal bolts of brightly coloured silks, lying haphazardly on top of one another.

((I'm sorry; didn't have time to draw up her room yet, but here's the basic idea: [x] ))

"Why thank you. Colour is wonderful, don't you think? What's your favorite colour, Lai?"

Shee frowned as she realized she was talking to empty air; she got back up and lightly skittered back across the floor of geometric tiles, her shoes making a small noise each time they hit the floor.

Stopping inches in front of Lai, she motioned to grab his hand in hers in order to drag him across the room.

"Why'd you just stop there? Come on!"

"That's the perfect answer, Lai! Exactly how I feel; I mean, how can you choose just one?"

Turning, and looking up (for Lai, disappointingly, was also much taller than her), Shee's face held an expression of dissatisfaction. "Well, I did bring you all the way here. It would be silly for you to stop so close to our goal. Besides, I'd be a fool to keep anything I didn't want others to see in such a place."

Shee stopped in front of the chest full of fabric. She let go of Lai's hand and picked up a bolt of red chiffon, draping it over herself. "What do you think? I was going to get a sari made of this one, but I haven't been allowed out of the compound for a while. But," she stopped, dropping the red fabric and picking up a roll of turquoise poplin, and proceeding to unfurl it with a flourish, "this isn't about me; it's about you. See anything you like?"

"Oh, no. You didn't do anything. Trust me, you'd know if you did something wrong."

Shee beamed at Lai and his offer. "Really? You'd do that? I'm sure you'd do a great job!" She sat back down quietly and settled for watching Lai rifle through the chest.

"So, do you have any idea what you're going to be for Halloween?"