queenoflogs | Alice and Battler

Characters: Alice Margatroid and Battler Ushiromiya
Date: December 22nd
Summary: Two witches in a hut, surrounded by snow.
Warnings: Inevitable perverted Battler related shenanigans. Among the normal stuff for the event.

When Alice awoke, she obviously found herself in a not so familiar place. Even through her still half-asleep vision, she could easily tell this. Of course, she wasn't exactly staying in one place before, but she knew better than to stay in a place like this.

She knew something was going on, that much was obvious. After glancing about for a bit, the situation was a bit easier to figure out. She was in a small house, if you could even call it that, with not much in terms of anything. Just something to sleep in, and what looked like some facilities. However, it all looked much better than outside. There was snow, lots and lots of snow. So much that she could barely see if anything else was outside, or if there was anything else outside!

But Alice also noticed something else that was inside with her. It was someone else, someone vaguely familiar at least.

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Of course, the two would probably disagree on what "just keeping warm" meant, but there was no reason to bring that up just yet.

"So we should stick close together, right?" she asked, inching towards Alice more slowly and with less exuberance than the last time.

Alice just sighed, that was true. Sticking close would be the right idea. She just had one more trouble on her mind.

"We should, but there's still one last thing. It would be rather sad if we died of boredom." She said, grimacing a bit.

"Heh, I'll make sure we don't get bored then~" Battler replied. "Boredom is the bane of a witch's existence, right?"

And with that said, she wrapped an arm around Alice's shoulder and pulled her a bit closer. For warmth, of course.

As she was pulled in, Alice couldn't help but feel a bit nervous. She didn't fight it, but she was prepared to. "Boredom is the bane of many things."

Battler scowled a bit at that. "But there are still limits to what you should do to relieve it."

"Like causing earthquakes just to get someone to fight you?" Alice said, looking away a bit. Boredom was a driving force in Gensokyo, but still.

There were few things that caught Battler by surprise, but that was one of them. She turned to Alice, her expression one of disbelief. "Ihihi, don't tell me you actually know someone who'd do that?"

Now that was an odd face to see. The quakes certainly weren't something that would normally happen, but it wasn't exactly something hard to believe. "Yes, I do. Not well, mind you. She's a pain and an annoyance. She's also here in these stupid gardens."

"So if we get any freak earthquakes, I know who to blame, huh?" Battler sighed, shaking her head a bit. "Ihihi, the people I was talking about could be worse though."

Alice had to think of worse. She said quakes as an example, but didn't mention any life loss from it. But it would be easy to guess that would be the case. So then, there aren't really many options left. "... Did they trap peoples souls into a jar and performed various forms of torture?"

It was sad that she could probably think of someone who could do this.

Battler paused, giving that some thought. Well, no one she knew literally did that, although you could perhaps say they did something like that metaphorically. But... no, she wouldn't quite put it like that either way.

"I think you win if you know someone like that."

"Well, I don't know anyone who has done that, to my knowledge in any case. There are some I would not put it past." Alice spoke, not really wanting to say who.

"Just making sure, but... no one here, right?"

Alice kept quiet. Personally, she didn't believe the person in mind would actually do such a thing, but there was the lingering thought that she couldn't get rid of. You never knew with youkai.

Silence? Then that meant...

"...who is it?" Battler asked, after she let out a small groan.

Her eyes darted around, trying to catch a glimpse of any hint that there was something more around. Even after finding nothing, she still couldn't be sure. "... I really shouldn't say. It would not be unexpected if we were being watched right now."

That reaction definitely sent shivers down Battler's spine. She kind of knew how that felt, and more importantly knew what that said about this person.

"Ihihi, maybe later then," Battler said, scratching her cheek. She definitely did want to know now.

With that settled, Alice decided to move onto a different topic. One that had been bugging her.

"... What's with that 'ihihi' thing? Is that supposed to be a laugh or are you sick?"

"It's a laugh..." Battler trailed off, hesitating to use it again like she normally would. Was it really that strange sounding?

"You laugh sometimes too, don't you? You can't always be this serious all the time. That's not healthy."

"I can laugh, I just don't see a reason for it. Besides, I'm normally surrounded by crazy people. They do it for me." Said the puppeteer, making it clear what sort of person she was.

"It's especially when you're surrounded by crazy people that you've gotta laugh a bit," Battler replied, shaking her head. "Or else you'll go crazy too."

"That sounds backwards." Alice said, thinking that laughing in that situation would only be accepting the crazy.

"Sometimes you just have to laugh at things. If you're serious all the time, you'll end up going crazy."

Alice thought that someone sounded sure of themselves. "If you're speaking from experience I'll have to pass."

"Suit yourself. But don't say I didn't warn you when you go crazy yourself," Battler grinned, though it was hard to tell if she was joking or being serious herself.

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