InsaneJournal

A day after the incident Maeko was back in the butterfly room unsupervised, unwise as such a thing seemed. Unless the hands counted.

It was difficult to putter around tidying up to distract herself when things vanished whenever they weren't needed. She'd started folding envelopes instead. It didn't pay as much but it was an easy job that didn't involve dealing with people (why was she still working anyway? She didn't have so much rent to pay anymore and what she did have she could cover by translating instead.). She'd half-explained the situation to the hands. Their reaction was odd, they'd seemed almost relieved for a second and then had taken Misaki's doll and top it in the opposite side of the room from the rest of the pile. She was a little surprised at first that they were taking her side. But they were a part of her. It made sense that they'd understand.

Which made it all the more strange when they completely missed the point, bringing her Kanaye's doll the next time she got distracted and the box of envelopes fell on the floor and paper everywhere and it was such a mess and she broke down sobbing again. She threw it at the opposite wall as hard as she could. Which seemed to help, or at least snapped her out of being so useless and whiney, and she knelt down and started gathering up the paper.