[But she can hear slight sounds of movement behind the door, and finally after waiting several moments for a response she turns away, and looks back at Ib's small body, in the middle of the hall. The red of her dress looks lurid against the black and white of the room, and makes the paper and plastic Halloween decorations look very tawdry.
She'll just have to... keep trying later. There has to be a way to get Alice to send them home, since nothing they've found thus far has provided another way.]
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You can always choose to be better.
[But she can hear slight sounds of movement behind the door, and finally after waiting several moments for a response she turns away, and looks back at Ib's small body, in the middle of the hall. The red of her dress looks lurid against the black and white of the room, and makes the paper and plastic Halloween decorations look very tawdry.
She'll just have to... keep trying later. There has to be a way to get Alice to send them home, since nothing they've found thus far has provided another way.]