> Give a slight smile.
> "Well...if I've really been cast so far into the future, getting back to when I belong sounds like pretty overwhelming odds to me."
> Then drop it.
> "Very well, I suppose I should tell you what I know. I was outside the mansion, speaking with a mermaid that had recently moved to the lake, when there was an explosion in the library. Upon re-entering the mansion, I found Patchouli had been retrieved unconscious, but Keine, who was also in there, was not accounted for. Meiling and I scoured the library as best we could through the smoke, and I eventually did find a piece of blue fabric buried in a pile of books. A shelf was about to fall on the pile, so I stopped time to remove all the books and get Keine out of the way before it was too late, but...the pressure got worse and worse, and I blacked out."
> Wave our arm in the general direction of where we came from.
> "I awoke in the middle of some forest out there somewhere, apparently fairly close to this Avalon, with everything I had in my possession at the time except for my pocketwatch. A search of the nearby forest proved fruitless. I have no idea what has happened to it."
>"Hey, sounds worthy of a blessing to me," Reimu says.
>"Ooooh, riiiight!" Reimu says as you explain what happened. "Wow, I remember that. Yeah, that is about the time you vanished, wasn't it? I remember now. Oh heaven, Keine. There's a name I've not heard in ages."
>"Who is that, Lady Hakurei?" says Kaori.
>"She's the old Hakutaku, way before your time," Reimu says. Kaori nods, seemingly satisfied.
" What about Marisa, or Alice, or the Moriyas, what happened to them?"
>"Marisa passed on ages ago," says Reimu. She smiles kind of wistfully, you don't ever think you've seen her make that kind of expression. "Had a good, full life. Still try to visit her grave every year. As for Alice...you know, that's a good question. Haven't thought about her in a long time. Whatever did happen to her, Mino?"
>"I haven't the faintest," says Minoriko.
>Reimu nods. "Sorry. As for the Moriyas, well, that's an interesting story. But they're still around. The Moriya shrine's still there."
>_