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As a properly brought up Japanese girl, Astra-chan naturally likes to be
clean at all times. So she walks over to the nearest hot spring, drapes
her towel over a nearby railing provided for that purpose, and wades into
the water.
There is a gentle gradient, so that the further she goes the deeper the water gets. She stops when it is up to her neck, then ducks under to ensure that her face and hair are cleansed too. The vanilla pudding quickly dissolves away. After ten minutes or so, feeling thoroughly clean, Astra-chan decides that it is time to go. The clouds of steam are so thick that she can see no further than 10 feet (3 metres) in any direction, but she turns through 180 degrees, and heads back towards the point at which she entered the spring. But something strange now occurs. The water gets shallower until it is waist deep, but even after several more minutes there is no further reduction in its depth. This is ridiculous, Astra-chan thinks. There is no way that the pool could be this large, even if I somehow headed in the wrong direction. She wonders whether she should shout for help. But she would feel very foolish. Besides, in all this time she has seen nobody. This seems to be a remarkably little used bathhouse. Will she ever reach the edge, and get back to the locker room to reclaim her clothes?
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