>"Ah! I didn't see you there."
>"I was about to get myself some things to make a decent bed. What brought you here at this hour?"
>"Wait, what made you think I wasn't going to come back, to the point you came over to check?"
>"Well, yes. I didn't want to drag them along while I visited with Meiling. They'd just end up sitting there bored the whole time."
>"I figured that, the moment you mentioned them. They weren't worried, were they?"
>"Ah, no. I was just preparing things here."
>Nod. >"Just so. You could actually help out, in fact. Would you go inside and get me a pillow and a blanket?"
>Nod. >"For now. I might be able to make them work."
>So the dolls ran off, huh.. Ponder that while we wait for her to get back.
>Do they not have the wherewithal to entertain themselves?
>Perhaps they are less sophisticated than we thought...
>"Ah, thank you.">Take the linens in hand, and try to channel power into the pillow, and make it larger until it's on our scale.
>"Eventually, I want to do this for the whole house, at least enough to get back inside. But that will come when I feel more confident.">Do the blanket next.
>"I tried it on Minoriko."
>Nod. "It worked about as well as could be expected.">Hmmm, do we have a futon around, as opposed to a proper bed?