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Chapter 3 - His Words, His Rules

The next day, Josephine wakes up in her bedroom. She convinced herself that this was all a dream and she'll wake up in the real world when she falls asleep here. It took a lot to keep that idea when she woke up in that dorm. Someone was knocking on her door though. She opens it and is met with a tall woman wearing a blindfold and a white trench coat at the door. The woman's scarf is messed up a bit when the door swings open, so she quickly fixes it.

"H-Hello? It's early, who are you?" Josephine askes her.

"Right, you haven't met me yet. I'm Agatha, I was sent down here to wake you up, you're quite a heavy sleeper."

"Wha-? Why we're you sent down in the first place?"

"You overslept, and now you're late to the meeting where we decide who's going to lead this 'odyssey' thing Monitor has planned for us."

Agatha walks with Josephine to the end of the dorms hallway, where they are met with a door that wasn't there last night

"This is the meeting room, just to warn you most of us have just been screaming and yelling our heads off all morning, so don't expect anything pretty in here." Agatha says.

"Wait Agatha, why do I have to take part in this? I just got here and all, and I don't really know anyone yet so how am I going to vote for someone?" Josephine asked

"Well to save you the choice, I'll just make everyone in there vote for you so we can get this over with." Agatha jokingly says

"No no no no! That is.. the exact opposite of anything I would ever want here!" Josephine frantically said. Agatha chuckles at her response, and the shouting in the room could now be heard from the outside, so Agatha thought it was a perfect time to introduce Josephine to the hot mess crew on the other side.

She opens the door and it's just chaos inside, paper airplanes flying out of bored people's hands, shouting all around, and poor Varelle who hates the noise. 

"What's with all the commotion!?" Agatha said in her serious tone. "Listen, if you don't collect yourselves like mature adults, then I'm telling Patchy to cover her eyes and have Monitor hang you all by the vocal cords like he did with-"

"W-W-What?" Josephine said. "What hanging, is Monitor, like, bad?"

"Well look what you did Agatha, 'Poor Patchy' is scared out of her mind. Someone from the back said.

"Oh for the love of god Noi she's fine!" Agatha says, but the shivering and panicked Josephine says otherwise.

When the commotion stops, Monitor descends from the ceiling in the middle of the circle tables the crew were sitting in.

"Where did all the commotion go? It was entertaining." Monitor said.

"We've decided that I'm going to be leading the group through your odyssey thing." Agatha said

"Wha- we never decided tha-!" Noi said, but he was interrupted by Monitor making up his mind.

"Well in that case, I really thought Noi was going to end up being the leader. Narrator, change the title of the chapter." Monitor said

"You got it." The Narrator said

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