[If she knew he thought she was smart, Pilouette would probably be thrilled, but it might be best not to reward such a shallow line of thought.]

Mgghhh...This is starting to sound like one of those scary movies, you know? The ones where everything looks like it's just fine, but then there's a twist at the end where it turns out the people in charge are totally evil...! ...I-It's probably not like that, though. I mean, those are just movies, right? This is like, real life.

[Part of her is trying really hard to convince herself that nothing is wrong. It's just like a movie plot! And stuff like that doesn't happen! ...Even if they were sucked into another world, where she had been plagued by ghosts and was freezing in the middle of summer and...

Huh.]