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[there is absolutely no warning before a high-pitched, distressed, loud voice emerges from the journal.]

WHO. DID. THIS.

[well, she figured out the voice function... there is an aggressive sigh, then a groan that is dragged out as long as her lungs and throat permit.]

This is NOT Fiji! This is not Monaco, or Bermuda, or Dubai, or even TOKYO! I know well enough that WHATEVER THIS IS ISN'T HOME OR A VACATION SPOT AND WHOEVER BROUGHT ME HERE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION WILL BE SENT ON A HOUSHAKUJI SHIP TO ANTARCTICA AND LEFT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THE SUN ENTERING THROUGH THE ENORMOUS HOLE IN THE OZONE LAYER AND RABID PENGUINS!!!!!!

[there's another groan, and you can practically hear her pulling out her hair. yelling isn't going to help her-- screaming into a book isn't the same as tearing into a real person.]

Though, whoever helps me get home will be handsomely rewarded with as much money as they can carry to wherever they want. And I'll be grateful too! Don't think that I'm some unappreciative wretch. The sooner I get back to my room in Japan, the sooner everyone will be happy. I don't like that I've been KIDNAPPED! It's all fine and well in fiction but HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO ME?!?! I'm ready to leave, no doubt about it! I saw a guy stab another guy. The first guy peed on him, so I mean it was a little deserved but I SHOULDN'T SEE ANYONE GET STABBED OR PEED ON OR SPIT LIKE FIFTEEN FEET!!! DOES NO ONE HERE KNOW MANNERS?!?!?!

[there's a soft sob, followed by squelch (possibly underfoot), then a shriek and rapid-fire swearing in japanese.]

Oh. My god. I do not know what I stepped in, but it was something AWFUL!!!! MY SHOE IS RUINED... This is terrible! Is this the commoner life? I can't handle this. Who has a private jet I can borrow? It's Renge Houshakuji. My family will pay yours back double, I promise!

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[you can't see it, but there's a squint. it's probably audible, though.]

Thank you for all this advice, but I'm not interested in allies. I don't want to be in the politics of this place, I don't want to be here at all! I WENT TO SLEEP AND I WOKE UP HERE!!! Do you know how scary that is?! Spoilers: it's TERRIFYING. I tried playing it off as a joke by the Hitachiin boys, because they'd do something like this, but then it ended up being TOO MUCH. While this isn't too elaborate, they would have already shown up...

I don't know what to do!!! What's thinking clearly going to do if it's not going to tell me what I should do next?!

As I said, everyone you speak with through the journal has had the same exact thing you are experiencing now! Everyone here, including myself, has been pulled from their homes and woken up in that strange port town somewhere close to a fountain with a mermaid on it, so stop acting like you are the only one that matters!

Obviously you have never tried to think for yourself. Instead of having a fit, try talking with people, gather information, read the poem on the fountain since it has a clue to a possible way back home. It is not that hard.

I'm not acting like I'm the only one who matters! At this EXACT moment, I am the only constant I have. I have every right to be concerned for my own well being, and instead of focusing on everyone's "delicate sensibilities", I need answers to the questions I have!!!!!

Fountain?! What fountain? I don't even remember seeing a fountain. I AM talking with people, but no one seems to be saying anything that makes much sense, or anything that isn't an insult! This is like "Survivor", but so much worse.

[she can't help but whimper.]

The fountain in the middle of the town square.

And if you do not want to be insulted then start thinking about the way you are acting right now! No one wants to help spoiled brats! You will get answers when you are not screaming like a savage.

Okay, but. WHERE. I'm not seeing it at all. There's a waterfall. Or. Water... up? Rise? Not-fall? Am I even less of where I'm supposed to be.

I am NOT screaming like a savage! If you have been in my position like you claim, then you should know what ABSOLUTE TERROR sounds like!!!! And instead of insulting me, you should show some sympathy! Not everyone responds well to stiff and to-the-point!

You are at Port Chance? That is strange, I thought newcomers always arrive at Isla Empieza.

I know what true terror is, child, and it is not that. [Since she is usually the one to cause the terror.] Yes I was taken aback by my arrival at this place, but I was smart enough to realize that panicking and whining would get me nowhere.

Also, I only give sympathy to those who deserve it. Those who beg for it are the undeserving. You have said nothing to deserve it and yet you had the nerve to ask for it?

The fact this happens often is REALLY unsettling. Why are people shrugging it off like this is NORMAL?!

Alright, since you're not understanding why this is traumatic for me, I have never been kidnapped and left to survive on my own for any amount of time. I am without ANY of the resources I normally have. I don't even have MACE on me. That's being left totally defenceless! Who even KNOWS what people would do to me here! I've seen crime shows, okay?!

Ugh, just because you happen to know heads from tails here doesn't mean you get to talk down to me like I'm the dirt on your shoe! I have the nerve to ask for a bit of gentleness in unfamiliarity, and I will keep asking until I get it!! I need HELP, not you making my blood pressure go up to unreasonable levels!!!!

The only one who is making your blood pressure go up is yourself because you will not calm down. You need to learn to stop making a situation harder than it has to be.

But you have made it quite obvious that I am only wasting my breath.

[And that is the sound of her closing her journal.]

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