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[After the events of this thread, Mami can be found in the Gardens. She's become very....popular with the local wildlife; there's a fox snuggling in her lap, rabbits nestling contentedly by her feet, a quail perching on her knee and a cat nuzzling her arm.

For awhile, Mami silently preoccupies herself with petting all her animal admirers. For awhile, she focuses on them and not what occurred inside the Labyrinth, not the lurking idea that everything she saw was a horrible illusion. (She deserves for it all to have been real, so that cannot be. Never mind the sudden vanishing of all those bloodstains....) Then she reaches out to a nearby Vine, speaking to it, and the plant obliges her with a mirror shrouded in leafy boughs.

She's very tired, but still smiling- although the expression itself seems...a little less there, a little more whittled down. To those who might notice that sort of thing, anyway.]

I don't suppose this kind of behavior is normal for these creatures? Not that I mean to fuss- this is rather nice. I never had a pet before, or anything similar.

[a pause to scritch the cat, who has by now become quite persistent, behind the ears]

.....However, that's not important right now. I don't know if I was able to save the Queen. Please, has anyone heard from Miss Harlaown or her daughter, Vivio? They went into the Labyrinth with me and I've yet to hear from them.

I can only hope they're safe.

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[Silly Mami, you haven't sang a song while all the animals around helped!]

Aha, so I was right. There was something up with that place everyone was going into.

Personalized horrors...

[I'M A MAGICAL GIIIIRL~ WELCOME TO MY AWFUL WOOOOORLD~]

Do you know what your worst fear is, miss Margatroid?

[AND YET YOU KINDA GOT LUCKY IN SOME WAYS!]

... ........ [Alice crosses her arms, deep in thought. She's never actually gave this thought, there was no reason. Her face contorts a few times, thinking on things, before answering.]

I don't know, maybe? I've never faced it before, I can say that much. Though, if I had to guess... one of them would be an inevitability.

Is it death?

... Not mine.

...ah, I see. [traces of bitterness? probably] Then if you had gone into the Labyrinth as well, that thing is likely what you would have seen.

Whether you would have been fooled by the illusion, though, I obviously can't say.

Ah, that's something to wonder about. Every human I actually cared enough for isn't even here.

That alone wouldn't have mattered, I'm sorry to say.

Unless it could have been proven to be real, I don't see how it would work all that much. [Is that a defense or what she actually thinks?]

[oh don't you go there gurlfraaaan]

Perhaps it's something you'd have to experience first to really understand. It was some very convincing magic!

When it comes to magic, I think I could see through it. It would do me no good if I fell that easily to it.

Well, of course! Nothing done to you in the Labyrinth would be for your health.

That's... not what I meant at all.

Aha, I know. Sorry, it looks like my joke fell flat.

Still, you shouldn't underestimate this place. That's all I was trying to say.

It's a little hard to tell when you seem to have the same attitude all the time.

True, but I should at least have confidence in my own abilities.

Do I really?

[shhhh only smiles now....]

Which are what, if you don't mind me asking? I have to admit that I'm pretty curious.

Well, as far as I can tell.

I guess it wasn't all that obvious. It's magic and how I use it.

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My apologies if it bothers you. Maybe it's just something of a habit.

This place certainly has it's fair share of magical girls, it seems.

Odd habit.

... Magical girls? That's a new one. I keep hearing witch.

[a little shrug ~~SHE WHIPS HER HAIR BACK AND FORTH-~~

also way to say the best word ever, Alice. and by best I mean WHY]

You don't look like any witch I'm used to.

[The world loves you, Mami.]

There's differences in all beings, isn't there? I'm different from those I know.

Well, I mean to say that you're not a grotesque monster that spreads insanity.

[looks at

innocently]

Unless you're just really good at hiding it?

I've been called a horrible monster before, and people who show up at my house usually flee in terror. Does that count?

Hm....please hold still!

[She lifts her hand; the ring on her finger glows and transforms into her Soul Gem. After a few moments, wherein the object doesn't do a thing except look pretty in her palm, Mami chuckles.]

No, I don't think so.