Scene #4072: Miko and Dollmaker

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Alice Margatroid	It's afternoon at Alice's cottage in the Forest, with a bit of chat over the broadband radio, smoke is pouring lightly from the top of the chimney, a pot of water upon the stove and cups nearby. "Reimu will like this tea." she nods, the Dollmaker's smile permiates the currently empty cottage, her dolls have been sent to various places to keep this house clean for her and Reimu, a long time coming for the two to catch up. "Alright, and the dango are ready too... this is very nice. I think she's going to enjoy this." she nods and waits, nodding, "Wonder where she is..."
Reimu Hakurei	A quiet knock is heard at the door and Reimu impatiently waits outside. As she waits, she takes a moment to contemplate several things. While it is nice to get out of the shrine every so often, it's probably important for her to get some more donations for the shrine, or at least some money. Reimu crosses her arms for a second as she waits. As expected, she is wearing her usual attire, although she certainly has other things to wear, it just felt nice to go in this. After a short moment of waiting, she knocks on the door three times before responding, "Alice, are you home right now?"
Alice Margatroid	Alice perks up, the Miko has arrived! "The door's open, Reimu, make yourself at home." she yells out as the tea kettle whistles, the pot now full of hot water for green tea. "I'll be out into the den in a moment, just finishing up the tea!" she mutters something and looks around, "Okay, tea, dango, cups... I think this is fine now." and with a nod, she picks up the tray and heads towards the den. Alice is in her normal outfit today and surprisingly, Hourai and Shanghai aren't with her right now like they normally would be. In fact, most if not all her dolls aren't here today... "Reimu, it's good to see you again."
Reimu Hakurei	Reimu walks into the small house and she smiles slightly, "Thanks, it's pretty nice to see you too, Alice." From there, she walks closer to the nearest table and takes a seat upon the ground. She begins to look around the room for a moment before she bluntly continues, "I still have a bit of a headache from the other day." Her smile is only slightly there for the most part but she tries to be as polite as she can, "Anyway, what exactly happened while I was getting additional teaching from Yukari? I didn't get much information about it the other day."
Alice Margatroid	The tray is set down and a cup is poured for the Miko. "I appreciate your concern about my leg that day, it's healed up quite nicely." she nods, "Ah, hope your headache clears up, maybe this green tea will help you." she nods, moving to sit across from the Miko, "Well, it depends on what you're... wanting to know." she gives a bit of a chuckle. "I visited Mom, took a human to Makai with me, was involved in an incident.... Mom came to play too." she taps her foot, "And before that, the Fake Miko...err.. Konoe showed up and caused an incident of her own." she thinks, "And then apparently Konoe's MOM came in..." she shakes her head, "It's become a... mess." she laughs, "What about you, what did you learn from the gap hag?"
Reimu Hakurei	The information about Shinki appearing caused Reimu to raise an eyebrow in surprise, "Okay, I'm a bit familiar with Konoe. After all, she seemed interested me slightly considering that from what I can gather, she was probably born from the many rumors about me. I'm mostly wondering why Shinki would come here now or why you would bring a human other than Marisa to Makai." For a moment, she lips the cup of tea to her leaps and after swallowing, her smile begins to grow further. "Thanks again, Alice. If you're wondering what I learned, well, I figured out how to better fix holes in the barrier, and got better at making barriers along with being able to switch shot types mid fight." Reimu places the cup down on the table and continues casually, "Also, I learned something rather unique as well. Apparently, Border of Life and Death has a blind spot."
Alice Margatroid	"Well, the human I brought to Makai was interested in meeting my mother... and well. She wouldn't take no for an answer." Alice gives a chuckle, shaking her head a bit, "And Mom... wanted to try to expand further into the multiverse with travel agencies... like we tried to for Gensokyo." she gives a bit of a shrug, only to perk up. "Oh, well, we might not have to worry about that, I mean, we have a warpgate that takes us to many different places and brings a lot of people here." The blind spot, however, gets a perk up from the Dollmaker. "Oh ho? So there are blind spots to everything then." she grins, "Go on, go on, tell me about it!"
Reimu Hakurei	Reimu sighs once again, "Well, that's understandable though. That travel agency really needs to get all of the information out first." She merely shakes her head as well before taking another sip tea. However, her eyebrows seemed to relax for a moment, "Well, Border of Life and Death doesn't have a blind spot at first. You have to guide the violet shots and the red shots to make the safe spot for yourself. The problem is actually pulling that off. Could you tell me a bit more about these people that seem to show up here?"
Alice Margatroid	"I see, guiding the homing shots. It sounds simple in writing but I bet in practice it's not that easy." Alice thinks a moment, "I wonder if I can set some remote dolls then to guide some..." she shakes her head before that question gets asked to her. "It's mostly normal people. Some Elites come in too with powers of their own, some that can even take on danmaku." she taps her foot, "This dark person... Count Kord... he took on my danmaku barrage and he was ... pretty good at dodging it." She thinks a moment, "No one.. has yet to cause trouble here on the outside, most of them actually come visit Marisa or myself... strangely enough." she gives a bit of a shrug, "MOstly no trouble that is..."
Reimu Hakurei	"Err, well, yes. The pattern gets locked in there. However, let's just be careful of them for now. If there's even a remote sign of danger, then I'm going to have no trouble apprehending them." She shrugs for a second as she takes another sip of tea. As she puts the tea cup down, she glances towards Alice, "What was that about mostly no trouble? Did something happen other than the two incidents that you described?"
Alice Margatroid	ALice nods and takes a sip of tea, leaning back to think. "Well..." she pauses and thinks a moment, "Aside from Marisa causing trouble in general, not really." she shrugs, "Nothing major in Gensokyo at least." with a chuckle, she offers up the plate of dango. "You should explore the Multiverse, Reimu. You might find some new worshippers!" she gives a light, playful chuckle.. "I know of a few good places you can check too.."
Reimu Hakurei	"Wait, really? Do you really think I might be able to get more people to go to the shrine?" Reimu graciously accepts some of the dango and eats some of it off of the stick. After she swallows, she responds, "This is actually pretty good, Alice. Could you tell me about those places though? It would be really helpful so that I don't have to rely on donations from the human village all the time."
Alice Margatroid	"Maybe, though, they don't seem to take well to people coming in to danmaku. As... sorta evidenced with the incident I was involved with." she shakes her head and chuckles, "One place is home of an idol respected among the general multiversal population. ANother one is a school setting..." a pause, "And I can introduce you to a friend named Arthur Lowell, maybe he can let you set up a shrine there." she nods, "It'll be a good time to go back to those places and I'll be glad to introduce you to them."
Reimu Hakurei	Reimu nods politely as she gets to her feet. "That would be very helpful. Thank you in advance." For a moment, she notices the sun beginning to set and and she sighs, "Sorry about this, Alice. I better get back to the shrine before those fairies show up there again." Reimu begins to walk closer to the doorway out before turning back to face Alice, "I'm glad that I came out to see you again, and sorry about making you clean the shrine back when I was younger."