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i was asleeeeeeeep ANYWAY

So the Chrome Car our next episode. I'll do this quick cause I have horror movies to watch and inktober drawings to do, especially since I missed yesterday due to, like I said ✨extreme lack of motivation✨

The gang make it to a train car where everything is made of chrome. Like a skating rink made of mirrors, a vain people's skating rink (words I stole from Tulip). Tulip tries to open the door and, uh oh, it's locked. Tulip's reflection casually just starts talking, that's normal, and she's like "hey, we gotta switch, I need to open the door with you as my reflection and then we switch back so you can leave." Tulip agrees and so they switch and open the door, oh also Mirror Tulip, Lake we'll call her, is made of chrome when she enters the real world, but anyway they open the door and Tulip is like "cool, so now we switch back and then I leave!"

But suddenly, Lake is like "PSYCH I'm not letting you leave, I'm leaving and trapping YOU as MY reflection, IDIOT. I can finally be free! I don't have to be forced to be you and live your life anymore, I can be my own person!" but then Mirror One-One called ig the reflection police or something, they're called the flecs. So they arrive and they're like "time to kill a teenager(Lake)!" and Tulip is like "WAIT WHAT NO DONT KILL HER" (oh also, they call "defective", as they put it, reflections "slivers") so she runs off, and she finds Lake trying to leave. But wait, there's no reflective surfaces outside the car, and a reflection can't exist without something to reflect into. So she can't leave.

She sits down, defeated, and Tulip sits next to... well basically next to her, reflected in a chrome cube that's next to her, anyway she sits and she's like "hey, maybe I can help, just talk to me dude" so Lake is like "oh that's funny coming from the professional "talking about my feelings" avoider. You literally ignore texts and pretend you don't hear people just because you don't wanna talk about your feelings or admit when you're not okay." So Tulip is like ":(" and says that alright maybe she should stop avoiding her emotions, maybe she should stop running from admitting that she's not okay or that something is wrong, but isn't that just more reason for Lake to talk to her, seeing how Tulip turned out not talking to people.

Tulip says she doesn't want the flecs to hurt Lake, so Lake is like "idc, I can't leave anyway, I don't even have a name, I'm still nothing, I'm still just your reflection." and Tulip is like "nooooo :( I'll help you, but we have to switch back for it to work" Lake agrees and uh...

One-One talks about melting the flecs way too casually... but yk whatever, moving on, oh also the flecs are terrifying chrome beings who wear even more terrifying SKIN SUITS. Tulip and Lake run to the other door and Tulip pulls out her pocket multi-tool which has a mirror that Lake reflects in, making her her own reflection. Lake switches with herself making her A REAL BOY (also her hair gets cut off by the sander which is what they were gonna use to kill her), and Lake is free. 

They escape and enter the next car, a uh... work... business... uh... a pencil car idk, anyway Tulip de-taches the mirror from the rest of the multi-tool. Lake takes off the glove that Tulip has on (the one covering her number) and says she doesn't need it, and neither does Tulip. She says what the train thinks doesn't matter, she controls her own life. Tulip tells Lake good luck, whoever she turns out to be, and they go their separate ways.

Outside of the train, it's quiet, the wind is blowing and... Tulip looks at her gloved hand, takes a deep breath, and pulls the glove off. She sees her number is going down, and it goes all the way down to 3. The simple action of removing her glove got her number all the way down to 3. Like the number of episodes left.

Also keep Lake in mind. Important.