"Including goth formalwear, evidently," she says, making it into a question. "Did you ever watch the films?" Noriko asks. "Fantasia, and the sequel?"

Unfortunately, the occasional whispers about how she obviously wasn't normal were growing both louder and more frequent, one standing out as 'things like her obviously don't belong here' hung in the air for a moment. Nori was doing her best to avoid reacting, though her bicep twitched.