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"Welcome to Kenselton Hotel," Griffin said.Alex took cautious steps forward. Julian was staring resolutely at <strong>the</strong> floor.Alex started to say something, <strong>the</strong>n stopped. He started to say something else, <strong>the</strong>n stopped as well.No words were coming.Griffin gave up hope of fur<strong>the</strong>r conversation and wandered into <strong>the</strong> common room."...Hi," Alex said tentatively at Julian."Hi," Julian said in return, thus continuing <strong>the</strong> scintillating conversation that Griffin wouldn't have m<strong>is</strong>sedif he'd just stayed on a little while longer.There was silence as Alex worked out as much of <strong>the</strong> situation as he could from what he had seen thusfar."Where were you before you got here?" he finally asked Julian, forcefully extending <strong>the</strong> conversationpast its natural shelf life."Train station," Julian said cryptically. "You?""I was... walking," Alex said vaguely.A pause."I'm Alex," Alex said."Julian."Alex nodded. They went back to staring awkwardly at <strong>the</strong> floor.Back in <strong>the</strong> common room, Jack was still rooting through <strong>the</strong> boxes of random things stacked about <strong>the</strong>many shelves. He had just found a small blue cube with a big red button on it that said 'Please do notpress th<strong>is</strong> button' in nice friendly letters.H<strong>is</strong> curiosity got <strong>the</strong> better of SWAT instincts. He pressed <strong>the</strong> button. <strong>Not</strong>hing happened. He frownedand chucked it aside.Unknown to Officer Traven, he had just destroyed an entire galaxy in a particularly cheery part of <strong>the</strong>multiverse. Enraged at <strong>the</strong> loss to <strong>the</strong> point of uncheeriness, <strong>the</strong> residents of nearby galaxies mounteda full scale investigation into <strong>the</strong> cause of <strong>the</strong> unprecedented d<strong>is</strong>aster. They eventually tracked down<strong>the</strong> cube-makers to ano<strong>the</strong>r part of <strong>the</strong> multiverse, refused to believe <strong>the</strong>ir pa<strong>the</strong>tic claims that honestly<strong>the</strong>y hadn't done anything and it wasn't like <strong>the</strong>y had anything against <strong>the</strong> destroyed folks because <strong>the</strong>yhad whole planets filled with those little blue cubes, each with <strong>the</strong> power to destroy a galaxy in a givenuniverse, because <strong>the</strong>y were just into that sort of thing so could <strong>the</strong>y please go now?The two universes went to war. Trillions of lives were lost. Quintillions more were lost when severalblue cubes were accidentally activated in <strong>the</strong> chaos of battle. The whole fiasco would go down in h<strong>is</strong>toryas <strong>the</strong> bloodiest <strong>the</strong> multiverse had ever seen.Jack Traven found a packet of tampons. Th<strong>is</strong> place confused him. He chucked it aside as well."Do you really believe you can get out of here?"Jack turned, a random Barney & Friends pencil case in h<strong>is</strong> hand, to see Griffin standing by <strong>the</strong> shelf,hands in h<strong>is</strong> pockets."Why not?" he asked.A smirk. "Does th<strong>is</strong> place look like some shoddily put toge<strong>the</strong>r pr<strong>is</strong>on?" Griffin asked. "The rooms. Thefloors. The movies in that box. It's obvious that it's all been carefully designed. If we're not supposed toget out, we won't be able to.""So what do we do, sit here and die?" Jack asked tersely, subconsciously holding up <strong>the</strong> green-andpurplepencil case in a threatening sort of way.

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