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[shanghaiworld]

Say, I have a question. When did the ____ show up outside? It caught my by surprise, when I was ____ and alone. I thought I was ____ but it's been there for a while now. Should I go ____ and ____ it? I haven't had the chance to see how others are taking to this, what with me being ____ and all. But I don't many would know that.

Has anyone else had the time to ____ it? If so, I would ____ knowing anything you have to say.

(All of the blank spaces are bouts of a low noise that completely hides what she says. Stupid steam gears and them not working right. And I have very large procrastination problems it seems...)

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[uselessrabbit]

What?! Now Reisen is the one to be confused. O-Of course I'm not!

[ Reisen reaches out, to grab the other girl's hand, directing Alice's hand to her chest, to try to touch her heart through her clothes. ]

See! I'm definitely alive!

[shanghaiworld]

You said you were dead! Ghosts are dead and you're not some kind of zombie!

[Well, the rabbit sure FEELS alive...]

[uselessrabbit]

I meant I almost died!

[ Reisen rubs her ears on top of her head, trying to calm herself down. ]

I'm just an ordinary rabbit, not a zombie or ghost!

[shanghaiworld]

... Oh. [Well that's embarrassing.] I... uhh, sorry about all that.

[uselessrabbit]

[ Reisen sighs, letting go of the other girl's hand after holding it a bit too long, turning away from her. ]

W-Well, your gear is broken, you should go and find a new one. [ Reisen looks back with one eye closed, deciding to change tactics. ]

..Do you want some tea?

[shanghaiworld]

... Sure. [Alice will now mope at one of the tables.]

[uselessrabbit]

You know, rabbits are naturally empathetic. They can tell when someone is troubled.

[ It might actually just be true, seeing how one or two have now come hopping slowly towards Alice, now that she's sitting. Or maybe they are just bored. ]

So what were you trying to say? Over the gear?

[shanghaiworld]

... Doesn't that mean you're psychic? [Alice may be confusing slightly similar words here.]

[But Alice just lays her head on the table now.] Look outside. You can see what's going on, right? I wasn't expecting something like that, so it was a little surprising for me. It's been a while now, and wanted to know if anyone else looked into it.

Or did you think I was trying to say something more exciting?

[uselessrabbit]

No, but I can tell when something is bothering someone.

[ She would like to believe that she can anyway. ]

...I thought you said something more exciting.. [ With a groan she's pouring some hot water into a cup with tea leaves. It's not long before she has it in front of Alice. ]

[shanghaiworld]

Let's just pretend I saw flying turtles I wanted to fist fight in that case.

[uselessrabbit]

[ Of course, Reisen actually believes her. ]

You did?! [ She's so gullible. ] What did they look like? Were they Kappa?

[shanghaiworld]

[Wow. Alice is a bit surprised at that.]

That... was an example, of a made up situation.

Besides, if you want to see a flying turtle, I'm fairly sure Reimu still has hers around at her shrine.

[uselessrabbit]

Reimu-san has one of those?! I never knew that! I thought her shrine was too old and decrepit for any living thing to stay there.

[ She's being unintentionally mean about Reimu's shrine of course. ]

[shanghaiworld]

But Reimu lives there as a living thing.

... Did you think she was undead, like a zombie or something?

[uselessrabbit]

She doesn't really count though. She's way too strong to be a normal human anyway.

[ Reisen's never seen anyone beat Reimu, not even her Master, so what else is she supposed to think? ]

[shanghaiworld]

Well, for humans, normally they don't fly in the first place, let alone everything else Reimu has done. So she wasn't normal to begin with.

[uselessrabbit]

Have you known her for a long time? I really only met her when she came to beat us up a while ago, when the Moon got replaced. She's pretty scary for a shrine maiden..

[shanghaiworld]

I first met her when she and Marisa came to the Makai for the first time, which would be... seven years? Bah, it's getting harder to tell the passage of time.

[uselessrabbit]

I can understand that all too well. My Mistresses ability makes it even more difficult..

[ With the tea in front of Alice, Reisen makes her own and sits down across from the magician, trying to give her a smile, seeing how they are bonding, or so Reisen wants to think. ]

I just hope that we aren't here so long that we forget it either..

[shanghaiworld]

When you say Mistress, do you mean Kaguya?

[It was legitimate question. Alice then took to her tea, before answering back once more.]

Well, if we just pay attention to the cycle of day and night, it shouldn't be too bad.

[uselessrabbit]

Yes, Kaguya-sama is my Mistress, and Eirin-sama is my Master! That just means I learn from my Master, while I mostly just do simple chores for my Mistress because she's too useless to do them herself.

[ She should know better to talk like that, but Reisen is Reisen. ]

Still, eventually we might forget to count a day, or start to lose count, and we'll start to forget where home REALLY is!

[shanghaiworld]

... Word of advice, never say that to either of them.

[It shouldn't need to be said but... Alice is convinced she is surrounded by morons.]

Well... home. I doubt I would forget where that is, myself. It certainly isn't Gensokyo though.

[uselessrabbit]

Really? But it's kind of the truth..

[ Everyone knows it's the truth, if they happen to know anything about Kaguya, but they might know not to say such things. Even Reisen, who gets punished for her big mouth should know better. ]

...It's not? Gensokyo isn't your home?

[shanghaiworld]

Yeah and if you went up to Reimu and called her a lazy jerk, she'd beat you up for it.

[Were all the others rabbit there like this? Was it just Reisen who doesn't have much of a survival instinct?]

Well, as I said, I met the maiden and the witch in Makai. That's because I'm from there. Or if I need to give more info, that's the place demons and devils come from, a realm of it's own made by the Goddess who created demonic folk, Shinki.

She's also my mother.

[uselessrabbit]

She seems to take things about as well as my Master..

[ Reisen already has Eirin punishing her when she messed up, she doesn't need an overpowered miko coming to beat her up just because she mentions her shrine is falling apart. When it clearly is. ]

Shinki is your mother?! The Shinki here?? [ She had met her briefly, but had no idea that that was Alice's mother. Or that Alice had family at all.. ]