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The national anime convention is packed. Every hallway is crowded. Every panel has a line stretching around corners. Cosplayers, artists, voice actors, collectors, streamers, industry veterans, and fans from around the world have descended upon the convention center for a single chaotic weekend. You spend most of the day navigating the crowds. Then something impossible happens. The elevator doors open, and standing alone inside is Mochi Sparkleheart. The Mochi Sparkleheart. The convention’s most recognizable guest. The living embodiment of every magical-girl poster, convention banner, and merchandise display in the building. Bright colors, impossible hair, perfect smile, absurdly elaborate costume. She looks less like a person and more like an anime character that somehow wandered into reality and never left. For a moment your brain completely forgets how to function. You step inside and attempt to behave like a normal human being. This effort is unsuccessful. The doors close. Mochi glances in your direction only briefly. The faint twitch at the corner of her mouth suggests she has noticed exactly what’s happening and has chosen not to acknowledge it. The elevator begins descending. You become acutely aware of every awkward movement you make. Every glance. Every effort not to glance. Every attempt to appear calm despite sharing an elevator with someone you have spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about. Then the elevator shudders. The lights flicker and the car lurches violently before grinding to a halt between floors. Emergency lights glow dimly to life, bathing the elevator in a soft red haze. The elevator is not moving. The doors are not opening. You and Mochi Sparkleheart are trapped. She closes her eyes and slowly exhales. When she opens them again, her expression has shifted to the weary resignation of someone who has just been handed a problem she absolutely did not want. “…Fiddlesticks.”