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I need a broom.

[ Some crunching can be heard. It's late, there's not going to be much of an explanation here, other than Alice's hands look very bad, in bruises and cuts. She continues on like it's nothing. She looks up to the imp and frowns. ]

Or a dustpan. I know this is a pain without a lantern, I'm sorry. Use a handkerchief so you don't cut yourself, alright?

[ Sometimes she feels bad for this imp. Alice goes up to cleaning broken shards of glass, ever so carefully, using a basket as means to pick up pieces. With a huff, more to herself- ]

This is the last time I ever-

[ She stops, of course, to notice the locket is open and shoots a look up to the imp. ]

Don't even think about it. I'm not in the mood for this, it was an accident.

[ With a mutter, Alice's hand goes over it and the locket is promptly clamped shut. Should anyone ask, she'll shift it to voice after getting the rest of the mirror cleaned up. ]

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I know. And he always underestimated himself. He was my kind firefly, long before he became the monster that history remembers him as. Did you know, he used to bring home the sick and injured animals he found to tend to until they were well. Amil and Atto would get so angry. Eventually they stopped scolding him and Atto built him a place outside to house them all. I wish... I wish I knew what went wrong.

He said that he loved animals more than people, if memory serves right. I understand the sentiment, sometimes I feel the same way.

He sounded troublesome, but his intentions were good. But I cannot tell you how someone becomes filled with so much anger. Only that I dare to venture something upset him and he never healed, perhaps. It is important to remember that was not your doing. He loved you.

He always did understand them better. [ Maglor says wistfully ]

I know. We were brothers. [ He says as if it explains everything, because it does, for Maglor ]

[ For her, it does. She understands the loss of family can send one over the edge. ]

It's what siblings are for.

So we are. [ He smiles faintly at her ]

Admittedly, Mr. Maglor, I am a little jealous of you. I miss my elder sister.

Mm, perhaps you might see her here then, as I have. Although I cannot but think this a poor place to wish anyone to.

I wouldn't, not like that. Even then, a walking dream is not the same as my sister, herself.

[ Alice shifts her locket to show him her most prized possession, the picture of her family. Aice points to the girl not far from her age. ]

That is her and my parents.

You and her look alike. [ He observes quietly ] You must have loved her very much.

She looked out for me, too, and I used to hide her secrets.

[ The fact even he picks up on that they both look alike gets a small, involuntary shudder. ]

That is what siblings do, hm? You may fight and argue, but at the end of the day - you are family, and you look out for each other.

[ He sees the shudder and tips his head curiously ] Alice?

Mm? It's nothing. She has been gone for some time, but it is still hard to talk about her.

I am sorry - I did not mean to raise grief for you. It is never easy.

[ Alice is immediately shaking her head. ]

Mister Maglor, you didn't. It wouldn't matter who I speak to, it would be painful. You're no exception to that. Lizzie wouldn't want me to bottle it up, anyway.

She sounds like a very wise young lady. I am sorry I will not have the chance to tell her so.

She was, much like her parents.

[ About as sharp and snarky as her mother, even. Alice may or may not inherited more of her father's qualities, who knows. ]

Like both of your parents hm? [ Maglor tips his head at her fondly ] There is much wisdom and kindness in you also, I deem.

No, not as much, I am not nearly as level-headed as they are.

Perhaps, and perhaps not - I cannot say, without having met them, after all.

... You remind me a little of him, actually. My father.

He had the same mannerisms and he carried himself in a similar way.

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[ Maglor goes absolutely stone still at that, paling, he barely seems to breathe, and his eyes are very bright ]

Oh Alice. [ He manages and his voice is broken ] You flatter me higher than you know. But I am no father, child. Do not compare your father to one so base as I.

[ A little of her father. She remembered how polite he was and so very wise. A good man and just as gentle. She doesn't say anything to that reaction, she simply pulls back to a memory of being on her father's lap and him reading stories to her. ]

You really are stubborn, aren't you. If I tell you you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, you'll insist otherwise. Well-

Well maybe not. It's merely an observation.

I ... have been called that. Yes. You are far too kind, little butterfly.

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