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[toxicophelia]

I - [action - 724 Anderson Lane]

[Hi, Giles. Congrats on getting a new not!daughter. She is currently padding through the house, a framed photograph of her and you and the family drones in her hand. She looks extremely grumpy. ]

This is absurd...

II - [elementary school - afternoon]

[If you happen to be either 1) a studen at the elementary school or 2

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III

[lunardialled]

I'm afraid she isn't here, little doll.

[toxicophelia]

[FINGERJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB!]

Maid! What are you doing here?!

[lunardialled]

I live here. And I have a name, poppet. It's Sakuya.

[toxicophelia]

[Medicine peers in the background. She looks back at Sakuya awkwardly.]

Well, I have a name, too. I'm not "Little Doll," I'm "Medicine."

[lunardialled]

Oh, I remember you. Trying to poison everyone during the flower incident, wasn't it? So ironic that your name would be 'Medicine'...

[toxicophelia]

My old owner named me after the Ray Bradbury book, hmmph.

[A beat.]

Well, you're all lucky. I'm out.

[lunardialled]

Your 'owner'? What a funny way to put it, but I suppose it makes sense for a little doll.

[And there's a smug look.]

I see. Then we've nothing to worry about from you, unless you decide to go down to the post office and demand it back.

[toxicophelia]

Do you know nothing about tsukumogami? [Ughhhh.] I'm a free bird now! So it doesn't matter anyways. [Said...very...dramatically.]

Post Office?

[lunardialled]

Objects that become youkai after they've been abandoned by their old owners and left to collect dust, of course. But no, I suppose it doesn't matter.

[A light sigh.]

The postman will give your things back, but the price is steep - an eye, an arm, other vital organs...I don't recommend it.

[toxicophelia]

W-What?! Why...why would they take things like that? That's completely barbaric!

[lunardialled]

It is. I don't know why the town chooses to do such things...the only other way to get one's things back is to wait until after the town does something terrible.

[toxicophelia]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't....

[lunardialled]

That's it exactly...

[toxicophelia]

[Medi sighs.]

Either way. Are you sure you haven't seen Suu-san?

[lunardialled]

I'm positive, poppet, but I'll keep an eye out. In the meantime, have you spoken to Miss Alice about her?

[toxicophelia]

Alice? You mean that really spazzy blonde lady?

Yeah, she was one of my first stops. She was kinda creepy, though. She asked if she could study me.