I stand outside the in until it gets dark, lost in thought over my embarrassing mistake, not really sure if I want to stay in a place where I’ll feel embarrassed every time I look at it.

*drip* *drip*

But it seems that the weather didn’t want to let me choose though, so I’m forced to enter the inn if I want to get through the night without drowning.

‘Wait, I don’t need to breathe so can I even drown? Eh, it would still be really uncomfortable.’’

And so I open one of the double doors and enter.

“Welcome... Will you be staying the night or are you just here to wait out the rai… huh?”

I stare up at the tired-sounding, blue haired receptionist and resume my role of being a stupid doll that you can’t have a coherent conversation and prepare myself for what I need to do to get them to give me a room.

“Hiiii!!!”

*glomp*

“It’s adorable!!!”

Only to be glomped by a squealing blonde haired girl who seems to have come out of nowhere.

“Huh… I guess this must be who Hannah told us about... but shouldn’t he have arrived sooner?”

“Ann.” The blonde says in a stern voice.

She then picks me up before I realize it and hugs me close while she walks towards the receptionist.

At first I struggle to free myself, only to eventually resign to my fate.

The blonde then stares at the receptionist with a out, and says angrily:

“Better late than never! *Humph*!”

She then turns her heel and starts climbing the nearby stairs.

“You must be Plush, right? Hannah told us that you would be coming. And sorry about Ann, she can be a real downer sometimes, but she usually means well. Oh, we’re here. This will be your room while you stay here. Also my name is Anna, I’m in charge of room keeping so if there’s anything you need, just come talk to me, okay?”

She then opens up a door in front of us and puts me down on the bed inside.

‘Wait… what…?’

Throughout that entire thing I couldn’t grasp what was going on.

Apparently these two knew Hannah and Joanne? And they’d also been told that I was going to come here?

Well, since I’m in the inn now I’ll summon Lizz again. Maybe she can help me understand what’s going on.

*flutter* *flutter*

*shine*

A ball of light starts floating out of the book once again and starts to materialize into Lizz’s form in mid-air.

*thud*

*inhale* “GAHAHAHA!”

Only to fall on the floor and start laughing immediately.

And while she’s defenselessly laying on the floor I-

*pok*

“Ow!

Give her a forehead flick.

“What’s the fucking idea you big cunt?!”

‘Oh great, she’s violent again.’

Weren’t you supposed to tell me what you found in there?

“Oh! Right! After I had slept in the bed and started walking around I found this big black square on the wall, and inside of it I could see everything you did! I got to see all your fuck ups!”

She barely keeps herself from having another laughing fit.

‘Oh great, now I’ll probably never hear the end of it.’

And? Did you find anything else?

“Nope! After I found the black square I just couldn’t make myself go do anything else!”

Again, not something to be proud of…

“Oh shut up! At least I didn’t spend half the day walking AWAY from the goal.”

Okay, fine. But what do we do now? I told you that I came here to find someone and for that I’m going to need to gather information. Any idea where I could do that?

“Yep, only place a stranger like you could to that in a lake town like this is to enter the adventurer’s guild.”

Adventurers guild?

“Yeah, it’s a place where anyone who wants can accept a multitude of jobs, they range from small deliveries in the city, to killing monsters or gathering material, back when I lived in town I could regularly see people dragging giant corpses through the gates!”

And how’s that going to help me gather information?

“Because the adventurer’s guild is a very widespread organization, far as I’m aware there’s one in every major city, so if the info you’re looking for exists at all, then it exists in the adventurer's guild. Plus, I heard that exceptional adventurers can get backing from the guild if they do well enough, which could help a lot in your search or even with travels.”

Okay.. It sounds interesting, but I’m not sure… Where is it even actually?

“What do you mean ‘where is it?’ !? You went on top of it during your little adventure!”

Well I went on top of a lot of buildings so you’ll have to be more specific than that.

*groan* “Fine! It was the house with the giant bell tower on it!”

Wait, really? In the middle of the town like that? Isn’t that kinda inefficient though? You said that you kept seeing adventurers bring giants spoils with them all the time, right? Wouldn’t it have been easier to build it next to one of the city gates?

“If I remember right it actually used to be, but the mayor at some time got really tired of having to clean up the bell tower after kids kept vandalizing it, so he put the guild there to be a repellant for anyone who tries to get close to the tower itself. Not that it seems to have stopped you though.”

Well now we’ve got plans for tomorrow at least. Oh! Right! One thing first, when the book first… Absorbed? Absorbed you, it said that you were one with it, was that why you could never leave it?

“Wait, wait, wait, we only met three days ago, even if that damn book chose you I’m not really ready to tell you my whole life’s story you know? Let’s just sleep and get up early tomorrow before the midday rush starts at the guild.”

Alright then, well, see you tomorrow.

I then get into the bed and get cozy to try and sleep, but while I’m lying there I can feel Lizz plop down on my head and burrow into my hair.

In order to not have her complain to me in the morning I start using Lulling Touch to at least make her have a nice nights rest.