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        “When I arrived on Patch, it took me a bit of time to arrive at your house. How far away would you say we are from the docks, Miss Yin?”        Yang couldn’t answer Arita immediately. She needed time to get used to the outside. After all, this was her first trip out anywhere past her neighbor’s house since everything had went down.        A soft bell rang from a gold and red wind chime as Yang firmly closed the door behind her. Yang removed her hand from the now fixed doorknob and looked out ahead toward the long dirt path ahead of her and Arita. It led from the Xiao-Long/Rose household’s front door to

    “Broken. Of course it broke. Why would anything in this house function…” a tired, angry voice muttered aloud.    A rather loud plodding echoed through the house, whining stairs creaking with effort as heavy feet stomped down. The basement was briefly lit by an angry, golden glow, fading as the light left from long, yellow hair.    A chubby hand snatched at the handle of a nearby hardwood drawer and pulled it out, tearing with enough force that it would have flown from the housing had it not impacted on a thick, solid thigh. The hand dug around the bottom of the space, pushing aside miscellaneous tools such as a screw