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karen ([personal profile] pagekaren) wrote in [community profile] pixieledmemes 2025-03-17 04:37 am (UTC)

[Interesting. The girl looks human, and she sounds American. Karen listens to the way she pronounces Indiana and wonders briefly, fleetingly, if maybe she's an alien. She's so out of her depth here. Her life is all - back alleys and warehouses, late nights in libraries and early mornings at city hall. She can understand crime and corruption and knows how to tear it down. She's seen the news stories about aliens and magic. But to find herself caught up in it is going to take some...adjustment.

But this - this she can do. Karen will never forget how it feels to be young, awkward and angry and desperately curious. Equally desperate to never let anyone know.]


Um, no. It's named after York, in England. Here, let's -

[Karen clears out some space on the table between them. She picks up a clean plate and sets it there. There's no judgment as she talks, just an obvious sincere desire to help Eleven orient herself.]

So - Hawkins and New York City are both in the United States. New York City is in New York state, it's over on the east coast here. [She points at the right side of the plate as she talks. It's not a perfect comparison because it's just...her finger and a plate. But it's better than nothing.] And California is all the way over here, on the west coast. [There, she outlines the left side of the plate.] Indiana is here. [Her finger goes back, pointing about a third of the way across the plate from where she'd indicated New York.] I don't know where Hawkins is in the state, sorry.

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