Brittany gave a relieved smile when Tina told her they had showers in the free apartments. She definitely hadn’t wanted to be like those kids at school who smelled like the gymnasium all of the time. B.O. was a bad experience for everyone involved. Brittany got to her feet, picking and fidgeting with the skirt of her dress in the places it was plastered against her with sewer gunk. She wondered if she ever would have set out to find the rat king if she’d known just how messy it would be.
She imagined that a free apartment building must have been kind of like a hotel. Well, hotels weren’t free, but she never had to pay for one so they were at least kind of similar to a hotel. There were probably towels to go with the showers and everything. Really the situation wasn’t too bad. At least she had her friends and her cats would know where to find her.
“Can you show me where they are? I get lost really easy.”