002 [dream]

[middaysdream]

You are now stuck in a large western styled mansion. Everything is clean, kept in it's place, organized. Though there is not a hint of anyone being alive, you have this strange nostalgic feeling that people once lived there. Little flickers of warmth flash and vanish as soon as they appeared

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[headedforhope]

[The loneliness of this place strikes Mami immediately, stings in its familiarity. If it wasn't for the style and other particulars of the mansion, she would almost think this was a dream of her own.

When she comes upon Hisui, her expression is cautious, yet kind.]

...excuse me, miss.

[middaysdream]

*Hisui gives a deep bow.*

Forgive me, the head of the household is not here right now. I can take a message for him.

[headedforhope]

[carefully, after a pause:]

That's all right, it wasn't him I wished to speak to anyway. Do you have a moment?

[Somehow, Mami gets the feeling that she and Hisui are the only real ones here. Or if not entirely real, than made of firmer stuff than those phantoms on the porch, the wisps of sourceless sound within this house.]

[middaysdream]

What is it that you need?

*Hisui puts down her broom to address Mami more formally.*

[headedforhope]

[Where to begin...]

I'd like to learn a little something about you, if that's all right. Do you enjoy your duties, here?

[middaysdream]

*Hisui hesitates but still answers just as calmly as ever.*

Yes, I do.

[headedforhope]

And the head of this household....is he a good person?

[middaysdream]

Shiki-sama is... the most important person to me. He has a pure heart.

[headedforhope]

[....Ah.]

Mm, something like that seems to be a rare thing in this world, I've found.

[middaysdream]

I would not know about that.

*Hisui says this honestly as she hasn't had much experience with many people.*