That was the whole idea.

The door glowed with green “3/3” and gave way to the girl with no resistance. After going through, she recognized the corridor she saw. She came into the glass maze and the second hall from here.

“It’s a circle! Hoo-fucking-ray! I’m supposed to be making progress here, am I not?”

“You’ve visited some interesting places. Trust me, it’s a great experience to have.”

“At least I’ll be able to dry my...”

*snap*

“Good news at last. My bracelet’s coming off soon.”

“Maybe it’s not? It makes cute clinky sounds when you try to pull it away from your thigh.”

Una wandered by the large cardboard boxes until the click-clacking intensified to the maximum level. This box was flattened a bit, because it was coincidentally the one she used to sleep on. The girl gave the remote to her restricted left hand, torn the tape away from the top of the box with her right, opened the box and started her search.

“The lighting could be better.”

The huge object seemed to contain items from different fabric. Cotton, velvet, leather, synthetics, plastic, even a straw hat.

“So these are the ‘regular’ clothes? Where it’s hardest to find them? Or are these disguises? Once on, they might take a very different form. Everything to trick you.”

“You became so suspicious, Una. Can’t you just accept all the presents?”

Una chuckled.

“The White Mall taught me to think twice before a try-on. Sorry. No offense.”

The girl only found two keys so far, and both of them were wrong. Not wanting to find a piranha upon sinking her hand deep and out of her sight, she just un-taped the side of the box, allowing the clothes and keys avalanche out of it, creating a large pile.

Pleased by her inventiveness, Una picked up the correct key, put it into the keyhole and... there was a pause.

“Can you put that away, please? I’m sure we can negotiate and avoid fashion casualties!”

“Gimme a second.”

“It’s not even that uncomfortable! You gotta keep it! You already found the key!”