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Caroline set the flat iron down on her sink, shaping one of her blonde curls with her finger. She was frazzled from the night before and the fact that Matt still hadn't answered her messages (it was official - he -was- avoiding her), but that didn't mean she was going to go out looking like a wreck. When she was satisfied with her hair, she turned off her flat iron and unplugged it from the wall. What she had expected was to walk through the door leading into her hallway and to be, well, in her hallway.

That was not how things actually went. Instead, she found herself in an unfamiliar room (if it could be called that at all) on some sort of platform... thingy. Were she less out of her comfort zone, she would have tried to describe it with something less general, but right now 'thingy' would have to do. It described most of what she saw -- especially the weird device above her.

There was something unfamiliar on her arm and looking down revealed it to be a silver bracelet. "Ew, what's this? It's incredibly tacky." Removing it was apparently a no-go, because the bracelet didn't budge. "Is this -stuck- on me? Okay, I don't know what's going on here, but," she fiddled with the bracelet, disgusted that apparently seemed -fused- onto her, "this is definitely not cool." Caroline was aware that she had inevitably bigger problems, but this one seemed manageable and like a good place to start. "How do I get this thing off?"

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The girl who appeared on the tablet looked to be about her age, maybe a little older, and Alexis waited until she'd realized something had happened to activate her tablet. "You can't," she answered apologetically, raising her own hand to the camera to display her own silver bracelet. "We all have them, and I don't think anyone's figured how to take them off."

Having figured out the visual feature now, Caroline had absolutely no idea what she had been showing up as before. This seemed to work for now, so Caroline attention turned to the stranger on her screen. Still, the idea of introducing herself had yet to cross her mind.

"We all have them?" Well, that was tacky. "Wait, who is 'we all'?"

Alexis frowned, obviously considering the best, most concise way of answering the question. "Everyone in the city," she finally went with. "Everyone who shows up in the room, and not the Extras walking around. They don't have the bracelet, that's how you know they're not really here." She paused again, admitting. "It's kind of weird."

"This whole thing is kind of weird," Caroline agreed, giving one more scornful look to the silver bracelet adorning her wrist. "Extras? Not really here?" She gave the girl a confused look and said, "You're losing me."

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