-Barasuishou POV-

I sat there rigidly while Souseiseki hugged me. My mind was racing. I'm not used to this sort of interaction with anyone. Her arms were wrapped around my neck and her head rested lightly on my left shoulder.

"Done" her voice eventually came. She pulled away smiling before taking in my flustered and panicked expression. "Ah… I probably should have mentioned it's a present." She looked down a little and I followed her eye-line. Around my neck was a small pendant that looked like a rose petal.

"What's this?" I asked a little confused

"It's something Father made. It will point us in the direction of other dolls. He says it can track Roza mysticas."

"Ah I see" It was really useful but "Was the hug really necessary? An explanation would have been appreciated beforehand…"

"Aha yeah I guess" She smiled "Sorry" I sighed and adjusted the pendant looking at it from different angles. "Oh, you'll need this to go with it too." In my hands she placed a small box. I opened it and inside was small mirror. "The mirror shows you which doll it's taking you to". I smiled as I inspected the small hand mirror and opened it. As I did my rose petal floated up and glowed a gentle blue colour. The image in the mirror showed the scene as it was now, me sat in my box and Souseiseki looking at me and watching my reaction. I smiled and closed the lid.

"Thank you" I said a little more cheerful now. We smiled at each other before the rest of the dolls appeared all sporting similar necklaces. Souseiseki put hers on and Shinku cleared her throat.

"Ok everyone, it's time we got to work finding Lillian again. Jun and Nori are looking after her original body after the second Father removed her spirit and heart." We all listened to the petite doll talk. "Suigintou, you last saw her heading for the human world?"

"Yeah." Suigintou said looking into her mirror. Her pendant (another rose petal) was glowing a pale yellow colour "looks like she's at the school now. She doesn't seem to remember a whole lot before the transplant."

"Transplant?" Hinaichigo asked

"It's how father explains what happened to Lillian." Souseiseki began "Like Shinku said they removed her spirit and heart and implanted it into a dolls body."

"So… she doesn't have a Roza Mystica?" Hinaichigo asked again

"Honestly where you not listening when father was talking to us earlier?" Shinku chided her

"No I was… I just don't understand…"

"Neither do I… I don't think any of us do Hina" Souseiseki said calmly

"So what's the plan desu?" Suiseiseki said shooting daggers in my direction

"We follow her of course maybe!" Kanaria said cheerily

"Yes but we also need to look out for Kirakishou… Schnee Kristall could be anywhere." Shinku said.

"I've been trying to get a lock on her Roza Mystica but nothing yet" Souseiseki said a little sadly

"I see…" I said as I took in all this new information. Since Lillian had been turned into a doll I'd been staying with everyone at the Rozen mansion. I wasn't exactly welcomed at first, obviously after the last time we met and I attacked them as part of the Alice game. I brought a hand up to my eye patch. I didn't need it, I knew that, but it helped act as a barrier to keep my emotions in check… that's what Enju said. "So… A sensible course of action would be to find a way to lock onto Kirakishou, keep an eye on Lillian and also look out for-"

"Me my darlings?" Laplaces Demon appeared dancing in one of the windows of the large room.

"Having fun demon?"

"Yes actually! This is the most fun I've had in a long time!" He chuckled and danced more spinning and leaping around the window panes to an inaudible song. "Want to come join me?"

"Join you where?!" Shinku said and drew her cane like a sword.

"Here!" he continued to dance and Kirakishou joined him and they changed from a lively jig to a waltz. I could just make out behind them the walls of one of the big ballrooms in this house. I'd had a look around after the chaos of Alice's resurrection. I watched them and took in the little titbits of information that Laplace was leaving us. Everyone else seemed on guard in case they decided to attack. I tugged Souseisekis sleeve.

"They're in the ballroom in the east wing." I whispered "It's the only one with roses that haven't bloomed in the vases. I looked to her and she nodded with understanding. "Could we cause a distraction so that some of us could go attack them?"

"It could be a trap."

"I'll go investigate."

"Like you said, we need a distraction." The waltz turned to a fast beat polka before anyone else spoke.

"Why are you here Demon?" Suigintou asked obviously irritated

"You'll work it out soon enough!" He laughed. Kanaria had seen me and Souseiseki whispering. She summoned her violin and looked to me. She nodded and raised it to play. She ran the bow over the strings releasing a highpitched note which broke the window. I took this as my chance and jumped out of my box and ran through the door to the east wing. Souseiseki was close behind me and we sprinted to the ballroom. I heard Suigintou flying behind us. I slammed against the door and it flung open. Inside Kirakishou and Laplace were still dancing.

"Welcome!" Come to join us?" Laplace started. I fired a set of crystals at them which broke them apart and I managed to entrap Kirakishous ankle in a crystal. "Well this should be fun" Laplace laughed.

-Alice POV-

Wait… I'm… Alive? Why am I alive when all the Roza mysticas have been ejected from me? I looked around and I realised I wasn't inside a darkness… I was sat in a pale blue room with a long mirror on one wall, a bed, a door and a small chest of draws. I got up off the floor and walked towards the mirror. Looking back down at me was a tall woman with long brown hair in a pink and white dress. Her face was hidden from me. On her left hand was a ring with a red rose gem on it. I sat in front of the mirror.

"Can you hear me?" We said in unison.

What's going on here…