She can't be right outside the door. Because if she was right outside the door then that means she's made her way into Akane's house and no one can come into Akane's house. It's not a matter of permission or lack thereof, it's a rule of the world coded in as firmly as she could make it that no one enters this space without her permission.
And yet, here she is. This strange woman who sells books to children and conjures giants out of thin air and she's just outside of Akane's door.
The silence from inside the room is deafening.
But just when it seems like it's about to stretch out indefinitely, Akane's voice, carefully cold and dead, speaks up from inside. ]
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She can't be right outside the door. Because if she was right outside the door then that means she's made her way into Akane's house and no one can come into Akane's house. It's not a matter of permission or lack thereof, it's a rule of the world coded in as firmly as she could make it that no one enters this space without her permission.
And yet, here she is. This strange woman who sells books to children and conjures giants out of thin air and she's just outside of Akane's door.
The silence from inside the room is deafening.
But just when it seems like it's about to stretch out indefinitely, Akane's voice, carefully cold and dead, speaks up from inside. ]
What... are you?
[ Not who. What. ]