User:NekoRex/Alice4

»»	Alice_Margatroid, perhaps strangely, keeps rather to herself, even with a guest in her house. She spends a lot of time downstairs, only going upstairs to check on Marisa perhaps three times a day, and dolls go back and forth to carry things like drinks or food. »»	Marisa_Kirisame had been in bed for a few weeks now at Alice's place. She seems a bit carefree that she has someone to cook for her, although it's easy to tell she's been waiting for the day she can get back to flying again as well. She has sort of been looking forward to the day Alice will help her with those spells to make her a magician, but she's hid that sentiment quite a lot better. Today though, she might actually feel good enough to get back to her feet. »»	Alice_Margatroid, however, starts upstairs for the second time today, leaving her current projects be (whatever they are, in all their mystery) as she goes. A few dolls flit here and there as she goes upstairs, perhaps going to take over on what it was she was fiddling with. »»	Marisa_Kirisame has been spending most of her time writing ideas in one of her tomes, that being ones she's wrote, that she had Alice retrieve from her mess of a house, and otherwise actually been reading tomes. Like typical Marisa, she has a stack of books nearby she's rather not have the dolls move (not that she's been able to stop them) »»	Alice_Margatroid enters the room without having the door creak too much, looking around momentarily before crossing over to Marisa. A few dolls behind her start tidying up the room a little, applying miniature brooms to the floors. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Hmhh.. it looks like your burns have nearly healed. What about the ones on your torso? Have they healed up in full yet? »»	Alice_Margatroid nods down at Marisa, knowing that she's probably not all that on-board with the idea of letting her examine these. »»	Marisa_Kirisame looks up at Alice and replies "Uh, yeah, I'm feeling a lot better these days, actually. You've certainly done a good job of helping me, Alice." Marisa doesn't need to actually look at her own torso to know how it feels, of course. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Have you? Well... that's good. Perhaps a little obviously so.. »»	Alice_Margatroid sighs, shaking her head. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Either way, it's good to know that you've been doing better. You can leave whenever you want, just so you're aware.. .:Alice_Margatroid:. ... although, you are without a house. What are we going to do about that? .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Tryin' to get rid of me, huh?" Marisa says with a grin, knowing that probably wasn't true. "I'll be flying again soon enough." To her last comment she replies, "But eh? Is it really that bad? I haven't gotten the chance to see it." Marisa asks with a bit of surprise. »»	Alice_Margatroid narrows her eyes slightly at this first question, honestly not really minding it too much, as small as the house is. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Yes, it's.. more or less in ruin. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Smouldering ashes and charcoal. There's perhaps some that could be retrieved from within and salvaged, but.. it's not in any state to live in. .:Alice_Margatroid:. I'd be barely surprised if there were youkai squatters living in the charred remains. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "...Dang." Marisa says with a bit of exhasperation. "Is it at least standin'? I could probably fix it back up if I got a frame and a couple'a walls, at least. Always expected I'd end up havin' to rebuild it some day, never thought I'd actually have to though." .:Alice_Margatroid:. From what I remember, there's two walls still standing. The others, along with the roof, have all collapsed. »»	Alice_Margatroid goes to sit not far from the bedside, her expression a bit vacant as she stays lost in thought. She occasionally shifts and twiddles her hands, as if controlling some strings somewhere, but there's none to be seen. .:Alice_Margatroid:. I would personally consider it a lost cause, and it's no doubt contaminated with some dangerous melted material from the fires.. but I've never stopped you before, have I? .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "The roof is gone? Bleh, that won't do, you're right. 'Long as the stuff is still there though, I can rebuild a new place to store it." .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "I don't think anyone's dumb enough to visit my house to take stuff, regardless of how much house still stands." .:Marisa_Kirisame:. (Thankfully most of the books have waterproof spells and such... not that I was the one that enchanted them) .:Alice_Margatroid:. It's not gone, it's just broken into a great many pieces. But.. yes, what are you going to do about that? I was entertaining the idea of possibly helping you out of the goodness of my heart, but even then, I don't know much about houses. .:Alice_Margatroid:. This house was already here when I found it. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "I built that house, so building another one isn't a problem." Marisa says, smiling. "I guess I'll just need a different roof until I build a new one." Marisa briefly looks thoughtful when she says "Come to think of it, I can't quite remember where I stayed the first time I built my house. I think I built a shed or something to sleep in first, can't recall." .:Alice_Margatroid:. You do seem like the kind of person who wouldn't care much about sleeping in.. meager conditions like that. »»	Alice_Margatroid shrugs, leaning back a bit and closing her eyes. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Well.. either way, you're essentially free to go whenever you happen to feel like it. I doubt I could properly house you for more than a year, it would get.. cramped in this little house. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Heh, I'll have to find my old book I used for spells to help me build." Marisa says, continuing to look in thought. But she does look up at Alice and ask "Ah, ya gotta at least let me stick around for Winter, though. Even the hot spring I got under my house ain't gonna do much when there's no house to warm." »»	Alice_Margatroid sighs. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Yes, of course you relied on a book. Where did you keep it, then? I'd think that if it was in your old house, it's worth taking a look to see if it's still intact.. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "I don't need to rely on the book now, that was when I was kinda a novice, you know." Marisa points out. "Not easy remembering every spell you ever learned, though. Book still should be there somewhere, if it survived the rain." .:Alice_Margatroid:. It'd be somewhat funny to watch you try and build a house off of just memories, though... .:Alice_Margatroid:. .. Well.. I suppose you can stay here until your house is done, or at least until it's liveable again. The winter's just begun, after all, it's not yet hit its nighttime lows. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "On the bright side, I'll be able to dig up the hot spring now. Won't that be fun to have?" Marisa says with a big grin. »»	Alice_Margatroid perks an eyebrow somewhat. .:Alice_Margatroid:. I... guess so. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Silver linings and whatever. Letting you use it would be the least I could do once I got it ready." Marisa looks a bit sheepish when she says "You did kinda save my life an' all." .:Alice_Margatroid:. Perhaps. It'd be a nice way to relax from all my work lately, and everything warm seems warmer in the cold.. .:Alice_Margatroid:. .. I don't see why you're bordering so much on that fact, though. I've long accepted the fact that I might as well. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Eh? Might as well what? Lemmie stick around until the house is up? Hopefully I can be more useful around here outta bed at least, too." .:Alice_Margatroid:. Put up with you, let you stick around... I simply.. egh. It's nothing. I just don't want you getting into any trouble during the time you're not asleep, this house has a sense of delicate balance to its madness, unlike yours was.. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "I'll be sure not to mess up your stuff. I woulda said just look how good I've been with it so far, but I guess I didn't have a lot of methods to mess things up to begin with, haha." »»	Alice_Margatroid makes a soft snort of laughter. .:Alice_Margatroid:. With how you've gone and turned my life upside-down in all the ways you have already? I wouldn't be surprised if you could do the same to my house and everything in it. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Even as you are now. »»	Marisa_Kirisame gives a smile and a chuckle, with the slightest hint of an expression she doesn't really know what Alice really means. Then she looks a bit more determined and says, "Now that I think about it, I feel good enough to finally get outta bed, you know." She says, pulling off a cover. She still looks a bit like a mummy with all her bandages on under her lack of a dress on. At this she briefly looks surprised she forgot about this detail, but she has so much bandage on she realizes it's not a big deal. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. (Whoops, ah, well, whatever. I'm sure she's seen more'a my skin putting on the bandage anyway.) .:Alice_Margatroid:. Well.. that's good. . . »»	Alice_Margatroid raises an eyebrow when Marisa stands up, fairly unclothed -- she stares for a few moments, her face flushing a little, before glancing away rather quickly. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Yes, it is. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Yeah, let's... just... try this..." Marisa says, trying to get her feet on the ground. She doesn't exactly look comfortable moving around this much but eventually gets on her feet. "See, guess I do feel pretty good after a-Ahhh!" She manages to get out, as she starts to fall over towards the floor. Guess she isn't used to being on her feet yet. »»	Alice_Margatroid reaches out somewhat to hopefully try and assist Marisa's walking, maybe to steady her arm. When Marisa nearly falls over, however, she lurches ahead, grabbing rather clumsily without any help of strings. She manages to grab Marisa around the middle and prevent her from falling, thankfully, all of her embarrassment and silliness taking a side-seat for the time being. »»	Marisa_Kirisame manages to get caught, and tries to get better footing again. She's actually laughing pretty hard at herself now, saying "Ah ha ha ha hah! I must have forgot how to walk!" »»	Alice_Margatroid smiles slightly, feeling a little sheepish and a little flustered from having to catch Marisa like that, before letting her go and helping stabilize her with a gentle hand stretched out. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Yeah.. it seems you have. .:Alice_Margatroid:. Nothing time can't fix, I suppose.. »»	Marisa_Kirisame quickly starts to get the hang of it again, although her laughing at how ridiculous this is isn't helping. "Hope I can still fly too, eh?" .:Alice_Margatroid:. It'd be rather problematic if you couldn't.. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Burns still kinda smart with all this movement, but at least I know I can move around without too much trouble." Marisa says, now on her feet without any help. .:Alice_Margatroid:. I've painkillers in one of the downstairs cabinets if you need them. .:Marisa_Kirisame:. "Eh.." Marisa says, sitting back down on the bed. "I probably shouldn't do too much, don't want to hurt myself again »»	Alice_Margatroid chuckles softly, opening her eyes again and leaning back a little bit in her chair.  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	That sounds unlike you.  .:Marisa_Kirisame:.	"I learned a bit of a lesson with the last few injuries, heh heh."  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	Don't you dare start changing from the Marisa that I.. respect somewhat..  »»	Alice_Margatroid narrows her eyes, picking her words carefully.  .:Marisa_Kirisame:.	"Huh? Being injured sucks, I'd rather be injured for as short-'a time as possible, ya know?" .:Alice_Margatroid:.	It does. I just would rather you not lose that amusing aggressive edge you have to you.  .:Marisa_Kirisame:.	"Oh? I bet I could pick a fight like this if I had my broom, as bad of an idea as it would be." .:Marisa_Kirisame:.	"I could raid the voile bandaged up tight as a mummy and with a broken arm!" Marisa boasts.  »»	Alice_Margatroid smirks somewhat.  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	I suppose you could, although the mansion, from what I've heard, seems to have a particular lockdown on their library at the moment for their own reasons..  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	I think I won't let you go anywhere near there.  .:Marisa_Kirisame:.	"Really? News to me." .:Alice_Margatroid:.	No, as in, their librarian is out.  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	She's not home, so it's even worse an idea for you to try and get in, since everyone else is no-doubt on higher guard.  »»	Marisa_Kirisame shrugs "Eh, couldn't be worse then dealing with Patchy, but whatever."  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	Well, you've got a librarian who hates you, and then her whole entourage of magic, and then the rest of the house that hates you.  »»	Alice_Margatroid chuckles, shaking her head as she considers the thought.  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	Either way, you'd better not do anything stupid for a while.  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	Just don't lose that edge.  .:Marisa_Kirisame:.	"Hmph, it'll take more then a few burns to fry the spirits of Marisa Kirisame!" Marisa assures with a grin.  .:Alice_Margatroid:.	There we go. That's better..