It wasn't that hard to find the Hexagon, since it was bigger than the surrounding trees. George trots up to the entrance, and lowers himself so that Alice can safely slide off his back.

She scratches his head, "Good job, George. Now, you stay here, and I'll go check it out, 'kay?"

He barks in response, and lies down, looking all official and stuff.

Alice walks into the decrepit Hexagon, and looks around. Nothing looks too terribly interesting... or so it seems. She spots a large stone tablet, and skips up towards it.

"Ah~? It has some kind of writing on it..." She reads it, "...Path ahead is sealed due to dangerous beasts killing people."

She scratches the back of her head, "I guess I'll have to look for another path or something..."

Alice spins around towards the other direction, but stops when she sees a scruffy-looking old man ghost. He turns away from her, and takes off through a passage Alice hadn't noticed when she came in.

She follows him for quite a while, and they finally come upon a statue. It's a faded green color, covered in mold, and in the shape of a warrior holding a shield in front of him. Alice turns back towards the ghost man, and saw that he was pointing towards the back of the statue; then the ghost man disappeared.

She walks around to the back of the statue, and saw a prominent button-looking device on the neck. She pressed it without a second thought, and the ground starting shaking, terrible tremors echoing throughout the building. Once it passed, Alice walked back out of the passage, and looked around. She noticed that the stone tablet from before had moved, revealing a secret doorway.

Passing through, she noticed that there were a few decayed bodies lying around a staircase. She inched closer, and saw that there was a very beautiful (albeit bloodstained) pink fan and a leather shield on top of a horribly torn up body. Alice looked around, but she didn't see any ghosts.

"I guess they all moved on..." She murmured as she slowly pocketed the two items. She scavenged through all the bodies, and found some money, herbs, and two bottles of holy water (she thinks that last pair of items came from what looks like it may have been a priest).

"Thanks for the support, rest in peace you guys." She clapped her hands together, and then descended down the stairs.

As she gets to the bottom of the stairs, a bunch of weird bag-like monsters mob-rushed her. They tried to beat her up, but they were too dumb, and only had their tongues to attack with; basically, they did no damage, so Alice mopped the floor with them. Alice is forced to fight her way through the monsters to get to another set of stairs. By the time she makes her way to the B2 floor, her clothes were splattered with blood, but only one speck of blood got on her face.

Luckily, she found a large sack of coins lying around at the bottom, and she stuffed it into her bag. After that, it was a bunch of monster fights.

. . . Meanwhile, back at Erinn's . . .

Erinn sighs for the tenth time, and checks the mysterious lady's temperature for the twentieth time. It had been unusually quiet ever since she and Alice had come back home, and it was not helping Erinn keep her mind off of Patty's disappearance.

"Nnn..." Erinn takes her hand away from the lady's head quickly as the aforementioned lady sat up, rubbing her face with her hands. "...What happened?"

"You got caught in the landslide. You're in Angel Falls now." Erinn smiled gently at the girl.

The girl's eyes widened in surprise, "...Were you the one that saved me?"

Erinn shakes her head, "Nope, it was our mayor's son Ivor and a little girl named Alice. In fact, Alice is probably in her room sleeping, I'll go get her."

She walks over to Alice's room, and knocks on the door. "Alice? You awake?"

After a few minutes with no reply, Erinn cracks the door open, and sees that the room is in the same condition as it was when Alice left with Ivor this morning... meaning that Alice is not there. Erinn closes the door, and walks downstairs to see if Alice was playing a game with Grandpa.

"Alice, are you down here? That nice lady is awake..." Erinn blinked, staring at nothing. There was no Alice in sight, and Grandpa was fast asleep in his bed. She turned and walked back upstairs, into her room, and sat in one of the chairs at the table she keeps in her room.

"Did you find her?" Erinn looked up at the lady.

"...No. I couldn't find her anywhere."

"...Well, I'm sure she's okay. After all, she was able to help me get home, right? So she must be able to fend for herself." Erinn gazed deeply at her, hypnotized.

"What's your name? Mine's Erinn."

"Marine. Pleasure to make your acquaintance."

"...Oh yeah, what were you coming to Angel Falls for, anyway?" Realization dawns on Marine's face, and she jumps out of bed.

"SHIT! I was supposed to escort that damned old lady here, but she went ahead and disappeared!" Marine let out a stream of hushed curses, seething at her employer.

"Calm down! She's probably just fine, and you should be more concerned with yourself right now. You were buried by a landslide, you should lie down." Erinn forced Marine back onto the bed, and sat down on her windowsill, waiting for Alice to come back from wherever she went.

"She's going to be in so much trouble when she comes back."

"Sweet! A robe!" Alice throws on a pure white silk robe that she had 'rescued' from some monsters she killed. This was such a good find, since her Celestrian clothes were now entirely covered in blood. Alice applied an herb to her wounds, and opened up the big door she had found at the end of the tunnel.

She walks around an underground lake, and up yet ANOTHER set of stairs (if there weren't so many stairs in the Observatory, Alice would be so done with stairs) to see a lady with purple hair in a low ponytail, her legs trapped under a large boulder. Alice assumed that this was Patty. Patty turns when she hears footsteps, and sees Alice skipping towards her.

"Oh my... I didn't think anybody would come all the way down here! Hey there, Sweetie, do you think you could be a dear and help move this rock off me? I'm not injured, but I'm kind of stuck here, and I don't want to be here forever."

Just as Alice was reaching down to help, a tremor echoed throughout the room, and some rubble came down from the ceiling.

"Oh dear, it seems that blasted monster's back! I got trapped here when it made these damned rocks collapse. Be careful, Sweetie!"

Patty didn't really know if the girl was going to be able to do anything, but hey, she had to get down here somehow, right?

Alice ran straight at the weird bull-looking creature, and stabbed it right in the nose with her sword, digging it in deep. The bull let out a painful roar, and stomped his feet, sending rubble down on Alice's head. Because Celestrian's are much tougher than human mortals, it barely even hurt.

Alice began a cycle of circling the bull, making deep slashes at it when she could, and evading the bull's ramming. It was not long before the bull just up and died, falling on its side in defeat. Alice looted the body for one hundred gold coins (why does the monster even have money?) and then took some of its hide.

Patty let out a low whistle, getting Alice's attention. "Man, you're loads tougher than you look, aren't you? At any rate, thanks for saving me from that beast. I was able to get myself free while you were keeping that thing busy, so let's get out of here. Your family is probably worried about you."

The two of them walked out of the Hexagon unharmed (well, Patty was still slightly limping). Now that the main "boss" is defeated, none of the other monsters tried to threaten the duo.

Patty let out a sigh of relief as they stared at the sunset. "I thought I'd never get out of there, y'know? I just can't deal with dark places."

She turns back to Alice, "By the way, I'm Patty. I run an inn at Stornway."

"I already knew that. My name's Alice, and I'm staying in Angel Falls, I guess."

"What? Really?!... That reminds me, I have to get to Angel Falls quick! See 'ya, Sweetie! Thanks loads for your help!" Patty signed off at her, and ran away. George trotted up to Alice, and nudged his face against hers.

"Good work waiting, boy, let's go back home."

Erinn hears the inn's bell chime, and turns away from staring out the window. Patty was looking about everywhere.

"Oh, hello. Welcome to Angel Fall's Inn-"

"This must be Edwinn's place! He's the only one who would design a place like this."

Erinn stared at Patty, "Did you know my father...?... Oh! You're Patty, right? I heard that you went missing in the Hexagon, I was so worried!"

Patty grinned, "Aw, you're so sweet! I can't believe you even remember my name! You were so young back then..." She looked around, "So, where's ol' Edwinn? Hiding from work?"

Erinn hung her head sadly, "I'm sorry to say that he's no longer with us. He passed away two years ago..."

Patty took a step back in surprise, "What?! He's passed away?...I can't believe it..."

"I'm sorry that you came here for nothing..."

Patty ignored that statement, "...Does that mean you've been running this place all by yourself?"

"Well-yes. I wanted to keep my father's dream alive, so I've been taking care of the inn."

"Well, it's so nice and comfortable here! I'd expect nothing less from the daughter of the Inncredible Inntertainer!"

"...I'm sorry, what?"

"You're coming with me to Stornway, kid! You're too good to be wasting your time in this small town!"

Before Erinn had a chance to react to that rather rude statement, Alice walked in through the door, getting everyone's attention.

"Alice?! Where have you been?! You had me worried sick!" Erinn rushed over to Alice, and got on her knees, closely inspecting Alice's body for any injuries. Seeing the hardened blood speck on her cheek, Erinn proceeded to flip the fuck out.

"Where did you get this?! Are you feeling ok?! Do you need to lie down!? C'mon, let's get you home, that lady you brought home woke up." Erinn picked up Alice like a tiny baby, and turned back to Patty. "I'm sorry, but I cannot discuss fantasies with you right now. If you need a place to stay, I guess we can give you Alice's bed, and she'll sleep with me."

"Oh? Is she your little sister? She really helped me out, I'd never have gotten out of the Hexagon without her assistance." Erinn stood there in silence, before walking right out of the inn, and going home, Patty following behind her.

"Grandpa, Marine, we're back!" Patty stopped cold.

"...Did you say-" A shout interrupted her.

"YOU DAMNED OLD LADY! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO!?" Marine flew at Patty, and put her in a choke hold. Erinn dropped Alice right on her butt and tried to break the two apart.

"...So, Patty is Marine's employer, and you two were trying to come here so that you could ask my dad for help because he's some kind of inn god?"

"...Yeah, pretty much." Patty shrugged.

Alice sat on Erinn's bed, kicking her feet in some childish rhythm. Erinn had made her change into a pair of Erinn's old pajamas. Marine sat beside her, wondering how somebody that saved her could be so small.

"What does that have to do with me?"

"Well, you're a chip off the ol' block, so I'm sure you'll do great! I have an eye for talent, y'know."

"But I don't want to go!"

"Too bad, you're coming with me one way or another."

"...I-I have to go get started on making dinner. Alice is probably really hungry, aren't you, Alice?... And please stop trying to talk me into going with you!" Erinn runs out of the room, Alice softly following after her.

Erinn stops at the bottom of the stairs, and turns back to Alice. "...Hey, Alice. What do you think I should do?"

"Mm~ I think you should do what you think is right." Erinn smiled, and shook her head.

"You're right, maybe I'm over-thinking things..." She turned and went towards the kitchen to make dinner. Alice looked out the window, and saw the weird old ghost man from earlier outside, peeking in through the window. She glanced at Erinn to make sure she wasn't paying attention, and slipped out through the door quietly.

"Hello Mr. Ghost man, what 'cha doing staring at Erinn?" The ghost freaks out, and turns to Alice with a start.

"Y-You scared me! Please don't ever do that again!" He turned back towards the window, but did a double take at Alice, "Wait, you can see me?! How?... Y'know, I thought you saw me back at the Hexagon, too. You must have some kind of talent."

"...How rude of me, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Edwinn, I fell to illness two years ago and died. However, as you can see I haven't been able to move on yet. Who are you?"

"Alice."

"Ah, you're Alice...hm?" Edwinn's eyes bugged out, "...R-Really?! But... i-isn't that the name of our village Guardian?"

"HEY, YOU TWO! HOLD ON!" A pink ball of light came flying towards Alice at a high speed, smacking her right in the face. When the ball rebounded off of Alice, it turned into a fairy-like girl; with long, curly blonde hair, tan skin, and pink wings. All in all, she was about as tall as Alice.

"Ow! Geez, can't you be more careful about where you're flapping standing?!... Never mind, I'm so nice that I'll forgive you." The fairy turned to Edwinn, "Now, old man! You were talking about this girl being a Celestrian, right? I thought the same thing, but this mess of a girl hardly fits the image of a Celestrian, don't you think? She has no halo, wings, and she's so tiny! There's no way she's a Celestrian, right?"

Edwinn looked completely lost, he clearly didn't follow the conversation at all. "...Ah, I suppose you may be right... by the way, who and what exactly are you?"

The fairy did a fashionable pose, "I am Stella, stunning skipper of the stupendous sky-soaring Starflight Express!"

"Oh, that's a cool title." Alice giggles. Stella turns towards her.

"Well, it's your turn to reveal you true colors. You look like a mortal in every way, so how can you see ghosts and the like?"

Alice gave them a short version of how she came to be here.

"...You got hit by a beam of purple light and fell off the Observatory during the earthquake? And when you came to, both your wings AND your halo were gone? Is that right, Alice?"

"Yep."

"Sounds like a lot of fungus if you ask me. You lost your Celestrian powers, so how is it that you can still see otherworldly things?" Stella put her hand to her chin in contemplation, "...I've got it! You can prove you're a Celestrian by sending this old bloke up to the Heavens! He looks like he could use your help."

"W-What? I-I may not exactly be happy, but..." Edwin trailed off.

"Yeah, yeah, I get it. You're still here because you've got unfinished business, am I right?" Edwinn nodded, "Alright then, Alice here will help you on your way. After that, I'll give you a lift back up to the Observatory, just because I'm nice, okay?"

"That sounds fair." Alice laughed, and gestured towards Edwinn to speak.

"Well, the only thing I can think of is the item I buried under the shrub behind the inn..."

Alice nodded, and made her way over to the spot mentioned. She finds the shrub, and calls for George, who digs with his doggy paws. After a short amount of time, George hits his paw against something hard, and whimpers. Alice reaches over and pulls out what looks like a trophy out of the ground.

"Oh, this must be what he was talking about." She turns back to George and his injured paw, and casts a small healing spell on it. "Thanks for the hard work, George. Good job~"

Alice skips back towards Erinn's house, and get's the affirmative from Edwinn that it is indeed what he wanted to show Erinn. Alice took it inside, and since it seemed that Erinn had gone back up towards her room, she went upstairs to Erinn's room. All three inhabitants turned to face Alice when she came through the door.

"Alice! You can't keep disappearing..." Erinn trailed off as her eyes landed on the big shiny trophy Alice carried. Patty grins, and pats Alice on the head.

"Good job, Sweetie! You found Edwinn's Inny!"

Alice passes the trophy to Erinn, who gapes at both it and Alice. "...Alice, where did you even find this?"

"That's not important. The important thing is that your father WAS a big-time innkeeper."

"Why did he give that up though...?"

Erinn's grandpa came slowly making his way through the doorway, "I can help you with that."

Erinn's grandpa gave a long-winded explanation about how Erinn used to be sick, blah blah blah, Edwinn gave up everything and moved to Angel Falls, blah blah blah.

". . .He never told you this because he knew that you'd blame yourself for this, but maybe you can understand now that you're older." Erinn's grandpa turned around and shambled on out.

"...He did that for me...?" Erinn got really quiet, and then abruptly turned to Patty. "... You know what? I will go with you to Stornway."

"Yes! Good choice, dear!" Patty rubbed face against Erinn's head, suffocating Erinn.

"Good for you, Erinn. I knew you'd take the right path in the end~" Alice hummed, rocking back and forth on her heels. Erinn opened her eyes, and looked at Alice in realization.

"Oh, what are you going to do, Alice? Are you going to stay here with Gramps?" Alice shakes her head.

"Nope, I'm going to be returning home." All three girls looked at her in surprise, but for varying reasons.

"You're not related to Erinn?... I guess it was obvious that you don't look alike." Patty sighed.

"You're going home by yourself? Are you going to be okay?" Erinn hovered over Alice, not knowing what to do.

"Yeah, I'll be all right." She pauses, "...I'm going to bed now, g'night."