XXXVI.

[dark_butler]

Comments

[brokenrozen]

Tea? I have things to attend to, but if you still want it some other time my sister and I would join you.

[dark_butler]

My request is moderately more complicated than a mere cup of tea, in that I cannot ingest it, but I should really meet more people here, so perhaps I shall take you up on your offer.

Introductions might be in order, in that case. I am Walter Dornez. You and your sister would be...?

[brokenrozen]

Suigintou, first doll of the Rozen Maiden. My sister is Shinku, fifth doll of the Rozen Maiden. I will see when she is available.

[dark_butler]

Your and your sister's names and titles (?) beg more questions. Perhaps you will forgive a curious man's questions when we meet for tea and your and her convenience.

[henkonasuisho]

The tea and the killer sticks I can provide, the last... Hopefully tonight we'll have more answers.

[dark_butler]

It will take more than tobacco to do me in.

You say tonight? Do you have some news that makes tonight stand out?

[henkonasuisho]

We shall see. Would blood of holy origins harm you since you are... it's opposite?

...I will be trying something that I can only pray will work...

[dark_butler]

That's a very tactful way to phrase it.

I cannot say. Vampires from my world have widely varying tolerances to everything from sunlight to holy objects. And as I am something created by science rather than by "nature" I am even less sure.

I would very much like to know what you will be trying and if there is any way I may assist you.

[master_lacroix]

I've never had tea but the way you fixate on it, it must be something remarkable.

I have found no signs of the girl.

[dark_butler]

I think if there is anything that could bring home your age for me, that idea is it.

Never had tea...

One day soon after I arrived here, there was a curse that turned most of us who were not human into humans for the day. That was when I last had tea. Should you ever be affected in that way, I shall make you a proper cup.

[master_lacroix]

I would not know what to do with myself if I turned mortal suddenly. It's far too long.

[dark_butler]

Masquerade for a day, I would hazard to guess. A human body does not a human mind make.

Private to Walter

[just_rayne]

I'm really starting to feel useless here. I hope she turns up soon. I wish I could help you out with the tea but I can't make miracles happen.

Private to Rayne

[dark_butler]

I understand the sentiment. I loathe that whoever has her is probably laughing at the futility of so many of these efforts.

Tea... no, you can't make miracles. Perhaps I'll stop wanting it when I truly accept what I am.

Private to Walter//Unhackable

[just_rayne]

I can't believe how thorough the culprits are..I mean nothing is working.

As I grow older I find that I grow less and less human...maybe I am like him...

[ooc: strike deleted hard.]

Private to Rayne//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

It shows that whoever it is is neither an amateur nor an overt fool.

I'm told that to stay sane I must put humanity behind me. I am told to stay sane I must keep with humans to hold to what humanity I have left.

I cannot decide which approach is the better one, since I must live with what I am.

[steeldame]

Do you have a moment, Walter? It's about your acquaintance, Kagura.

Private//Unhackable;

Did she have an enemy here? Do you know? I find myself impotent in this search without the proper information.

Private to Integral//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

That question has gone around and around since her disappearance, but we lack the proper information.

Private to Walter//Unhackable

[steeldame]

Did she have any special trait? Something that could make her... interesting to several groups of psychopaths?

Private to Integral//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

She is cursed to change form when embraced by a member of the opposite sex.