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Teagan crouched beside her and helped her open the bag so she could eat some chips. Finn headed to a different room to find some clothes that Sylvia might be able to borrow.

Sylvia gingerly takes one of the chips and places it in her mouth. She quickly spits it out.

"Why is it so salty and crunchy?"

"That's how they're supposed to be." Teagan shrugged. "You're welcome to try something else if you don't like them." Finn soon returned with a hoodie that he'd grown out of and some comfortable pants that had a drawstring which he brought over for Sylvia to have some actual clothes to wear. "We can look into getting you some stuff that actually fits you, but for now these'll have to do…"

Sylvia puts the hoodie on right there, and looks down. The hoodie's sleeves came well past her fingertips and hips, to halfway down her thighs. She looks down at the pants for a moment and opts out of wearing them. The hoodie covered enough anyways.

Finn and Teagan weren't really surprised at how big the hoodie was on Sylvia. After all, they were taller guys, so they expected it. "Is there anything else we can get you?" Teagan asked.

Sylvia tilts her head, thinking.

"I'd like to learn about emotions." she replies.

"Oh, um…" Finn and Teagan looked at each other, trying to figure out how to teach someone about emotions. "W-Well, you… you smiled earlier when you wanted me to pick a name for you. Maybe you were happy then?"

"Happy?" Sylvia asks.

"Yeah. It's a good feeling. I don't really know how to describe emotions or teach someone about them, to be honest… you kind of just pick it up."

"'Pick it up?'" Sylvia questions. She knew she had very little knowledge of things.

"Ah… we weren't exactly taught about emotions. As we were growing up, we experienced emotions and learned about them firsthand that way." Finn explained, still looking confused and unsure.

Sylvia pauses.

"I learned about anger, hate, frustration, fear, weakness. I never learned 'happy.'"

"Well… happy feels like the opposite of those ones, I guess. It feels good, not bad or scary."

"I still don't understand, but okay." Sylvia sighs.

"Sorry… I don't really know how to explain it." Finn laughed weakly. "Emotions are hard. You kinda have to feel them to know what they feel like."

Sylvia reaches out hesitantly, but stops herself and walks away.

She finds a window and looks up, at the far above roof. She hops onto the window ledge and begins to scale the building.

Finn and Teagan watched her curiously when she stood, but when she hopped up and out of the window they both panicked and jumped up to stop her. They grabbed her legs to try and pull her back into the room.

Sylvia panics and her training kicks in. She twists her legs, bringing the twin's skulls together. She leaps across the alley and runs up the wall easily.

The twins yelped and put their hand to their heads in unison. Teagan recovered first and knelt on the windowsill, but neither he nor Finn were able to run up walls. They didn't really know what to do to bring Sylvia back.

15 minutes later Sylvia returns. She looks sheepish.

"I'm sorry." says. It seemed like she'd gotten a grasp of common phrases while she was gone.

Finn and Teagan were still talking with each other when she returned, looking confused and worried and as though they were trying to decide what to do. They looked up at the sound of her voice and hurried over, their voices overlapping.
"Where did you go??"
"Why did you run off like that??"
"Are you okay?"

Sylvia backs up slightly, looking awkward.

"Well. . . uh. . . I didn't realize the city was as tall as it was." she says. "How can the ground be so far away?"

"The buildings are tall here. You really shouldn't be climbing them."
"It's not safe!"
The twins didn't get any closer when she backed up, but they both still looked worried.

Sylvia makes an attempt at an awkward, nervous smile.

"Well. . . I can't really fall. Considering I have built-in features like climbing picks."

"It's still not safe. 'Climbing picks' or not, professional climbers fall sometimes too!" Finn insisted, huffing indignantly.
"Why did you leave?" Teagan asked, calmer than Finn, but still worried.