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Well, to be fair, they don't check into hotels with chocolates, it's just a throwaway line from the beginning: "Then Gideon whistled through her teeth as she unlocked her security cuff and arranged it and its stolen key considerately on her pillow, like chocolate in a fancy hotel."

Which I would usually take to mean that okay, in this universe there are chocolates in fancy hotels, and then I'm like, what? and then I noped right out. But once I was like, "no, Gideon isn't actually thinking about chocolates, someone translated it and that's the metaphor they chose to use instead of 'like garblgarbl in a xltin' which we wouldn't have understood," it became much more palatable :)

I think the author was in Homestuck fandom? I don't know anything about that fandom, but I've heard that if you do then it's easier to take.