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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[alchemistsquery.livejournal.com]

[Alfimi, filled with curiosity, follows one of the dolls back to Alice.]

Are these your friends? They are cute!

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

I'm controlling all of them...

[alchemistsquery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see! [So it was like her and the Einst.] They are still cute. And they work fast. Are you stocking up on food?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

That I am.

[alchemistsquery.livejournal.com]

What do you need all of that food for? Do you need any help?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Well, I already have all the help I will ever need.

[alchemistsquery.livejournal.com]

Oh. I will just watch, then. This is all very neat.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

... Just watch. Any reason in particular?

[alchemistsquery.livejournal.com]

Your dolls are like Einst. But cuter and not being influenced by someone bad. So they are very interesting.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

... Are like what?

[alchemistsquery.livejournal.com]

Einst. They're... [Alfimi pauses, trying to think of a way to explain.]

They are big and powerful, and they would do what I wanted... But the only thing they could do, mostly, was fight.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

That answers surprisingly little.