> "Mistress...just left you all?"
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>Flandre nods. "She announced it at dinner one day. She had been brooding for awhile, and doing the wine glass swirling thing she did when she was extra broody. Then she just said something about how the they had forgotten us, out there. Then said that I was officially head of the household, and that she expected the others to serve as good regents until I was ready. Then she left, she didn't even bother to take anything with her."
>"So nobody knows where the Mistress went ? ......or why she left ?"
>Look down.
>"I....see.... i just hope she's well.... Young Mistress, do you know what happened to Meiling or Patchouli ?"
>"Nope," says Flandre. "She didn't say anything else about it. Something was definitely eating at her, though. Patch-patch thought she meant the Outside World, though. Bt no one goes there anymore, not after the Barrier was finished. As for them well..."
>"Patch-Patch took over, an things did turn around for the better, kind of. She started hiring humans and youkai to work for us, which made things better, but ate into the money. So she started selling off things from the galleries, here and there. We still managed to make some money off her research and stuff, too. But it usually was a slow, downward spiral, financially, But we were happy, still, so it didn't matter. And that lasted for a good long, while. Then Amaya retired one day, she just said she had found what she truly needed, and her time of enlightenment was at hand. It made things harder, only you were better than Amaya, but we were happy for her. Things were a bit more difficult, but it wasn't too bad."
>"Then Patch-Patch passed away. She was a magician, and they don't always last very long. Koa-Koa's contract was up after that, and she had to go. So it was just me, Meili, Elise, and the help. We did what we could, but we just didn't have the brains between us like Patch-Patch did. We tried to make the mansion into a hotel, because there were so many travelers and stuff, but we weren't making enough money. Then, the fire happened, and there wasn't much we could do. Meili and I went our separate ways after that. She went on to open up a dojo in the forest, and I came here. I was already friends with Hijiri, she was helping me learn to control my power for a long time, so it wasn't a bother. Eventually, Meili passed on, too, and one of her students took over the dojo."
>Hey, uh, have our time stopping powers ever, like, interacted with Keine before? Particularly touching her while time is stopped? What about touching her while time is stopped while she is using her own powers?
>You didn't notice anything awry during the sealed moon incident.
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