13th doll | Action

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[If you are out in the Orchards today, you may come across a humanoid doll, about the size of a persons head. You may come across more. Around fifty more. Long blonde hair, all wearing the same style of dress. All picking up food and carrying them away in baskets.

If you were to follow any of them, you will find a bunch of baskets already laying on the ground, next to one Alice Margatroid, who is checking everything with a list. She's just taking stock of things.]

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Stuff.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Stuff like what?

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Alice...

[ Lightbulb goes on! ]

Oh! Right! I remember now... her doll... thing.

[ This is still kinda weird, to see this many, though. ]

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Stalking you.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

W-what?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Please do not speak of us like that. She can hear you.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Only joking.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

R-right... I knew that... I guess you'd have been at the dance if you were stalking me...

... so what were you really doing?

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Ah...

[ ...are they talking on their own... or is... Alice talking through them as though they're...

She's not gonna think about that too hard. ]

So, then, uh, what are you up to?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

What were you doing? Met Reimu yet?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

We're collecting!

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I was at the dance... and... yeah, I've met Reimu.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Collecting what?

[fatedmagia.livejournal.com]

U... Uhm... Sorry-- I didn't mean to bother you.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

You're not.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

That must have been a wonderful time for you.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[The doll holds up a basket. Alice herself is wondering how it isn't obvious.]

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

... not meeting Reimu, no.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Is that a sympathetic "tell me about it", or do you really want me to tell you about it?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Tell me everything that happened.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

W-well...

The first time we met, she almost attacked me with a spell card... but Tenshi interrupted her with a rock.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

... Now, her attacking youkai with little provocation is normal, but you're not one.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Well, uh... she happened by when I was at home... you know, the floating island with the keystone stairs.

She thought I was working with Tenshi or something like that.

[nekomikoreimu.livejournal.com]

*Reimu followed the doll, knowing full well who was at the other end.*

Hello Alice.