Ellen walked ahead of Aki and Madotsuki.
After the Flowers of Jealousy had separated her from Viola, all she been able to do was worry.
Please let her be safe.
She never wanted Viola to get hurt.
Viola was the only one who had ever loved Ellen.
Ellen turned the key in the lock and the door swung open.
Inside was a small brown room with boxes littering the floor.
"Should we look in any of these?" Madotsuki asked.
"Um...okay." Ellen decided.
She walked around a pile of them, past a headless statue and to an open box.
"Madotsuki, you check the box by the entrance, Aki you check that box over there by the mannequin."
"'Kay." Aki still wasn't speaking much after Misao had run from her.
Ellen opened the box a bit more and rummaged through it.
"Ouch!" Something sharp had pricked her hand. She drew it back immediatly.
"You okay?" Asked Madotsuki.
"Fine." Ellen replied, searching for whatever had cut her hand.
Aha!
Ellen pulled it out of the box.
In her hand was a small palette knife.
Mary was holding one like this!
Ellen grinned to herself as she slipped the knife into her pocket, carefully not letting it touch her rose.
"Found anything?" She called.
"Just a bunch of dry palettes," Aki replied.
"I found a palette knife," Ellen told them. "What about you, Mado?"
"Nothing." Madotsuki said, getting to her feet and joining Ellen by the box.
"What about that one?" Aki pointed to the last open box at the bottom of the room.
"We'll leave that one," Ellen said. "I don't want to stay in here too long. Let's get back to the others."
Suddenly, the lights flickered. Ellen heard something that sounded like a rock being dragged along the ground.
"Guys, let's get out of here!" Madotsuki ran for the exit, Aki and Ellen following slowly.
"There's a mannequin blocking the door!" She cried.
"No problem," Ellen said, gently pushing her out of the way.
But when she had moved the mannequin, she found that there was no door there.
"Huh? Where'd it go?" Aki spun around, looking for the exit.
"We'll have to go through that door," Ellen pointed to the brown door next to a headless mannequin.
"We can't leave them!" Madotsuki said.
"They'll be fine, Mado. We have to go ahead. There's nowhere else to go." Aki muttered.
Ellen slowly tip-toed towards the door.
Please let this room be safe!
"Weren't we gonna go?" Aya asked.
"Not yet. We'll wait for the others to return." Ib replied.
"Where are they?" Viola had started to pace the room.
"They'll be back, I'm sure!" Aya said.
"Guys...did you here that?" Ib hissed.
"It sounded like something being dragged across the floor!" Viola whispered.
"That would've been a mannequin. I was trapped in that room the first time I came here." Ib murmured.
"How are they going to get out?" Viola covered her mouth with her hands.
"They'll be fine," Ib said. "there's another exit. We'll have to meet up later." She swallowed nervously. "We'll have to go in there again..."
"But...you said there were evil dolls in there!" Viola gasped.
"Dolls? Oh, no!" Aya muttered.
Ib leaned against a wall. "As long as we're careful, they won't harm us. But don't touch anything." She said firmly.
"O...okay..." Viola nodded. "We'll go."
"Thanks for sticking with me," Ib said.
"Why wouldn't we? You're our friend!" Aya said, giggling.
"Yeah...but look at Mary...we're her "friends"." Ib added.
"I feel sorry for her. She just doesn't want to be alone!" Viola said.
Ib opened the door to the room, not hearing Aya's reply as she slowly stepped through into the doll room.
Mary watched them from afar as they slowly opened the door to the brown area.
As long as they're not together, they won't escape!
She opened the invisible door they hadn't noticed on the side of the wall and walked down the short, dark corridor.
"Misao?" She called. "Are you there?"
Nothing.
Oh well, she'll be back.
Mary shrugged and continued walking, around a corner and to another door.
She opened it, knowing where it led to.
Pages of Misao's diary were lying on the floor.
Mary picked them all up, folded them, and stuffed them into her pocket.
She was the one leaving parts of Misao's diary around the place.
The others could learn more about how they were so lonely, and feel sorry for them.
They'll want to stay with us forever!
Mary grinned to herself as she exited the room, then ran back down the corridor to the Flowers of Jealousy.
Everyone had left.
They had been split up.
The Flowers allowed her to pass.
After all, she was the new boss of this place.
She was the one who ran everything.
But only since Guertena had died.
Mary crept through to the doll room quietly, and saw them standing by a bookshelf.
She carefully placed the diary pages in one of the dolls' hands and ran rapidly out of the room.
How did they not see me?
Mary felt slightly disappointed, but then, they were probably mesmerized by the books.
There were some good ones there.
And she'd heard that Ib loved reading.
Mary hummed to herself again, pulling the palette knife out of her pocket.
Wait 'till they see what's written there!