> Nod.
> "Understood."
> Head through the door and onward to Alice. If her guard gives us problems, time-stop past it as we did before.
>The door, you notice, has a sign very specifically warning there is a monster down there and instructs running from it to the stairs. There is also a detachable lamp nearby, which you grab.
>You head down the stairs, and into a storage room full of various objects, some you recognize and some that you don't. A few artworks from the gallery, some nightstands, an old range that you are certain was in use in your era... It is dust as all get out here, though you can see the dust has been heavily disturbed lately; remnants of the battle you remember having with Juza. Part of the wall is still missing, you march right through it. Within moments, you hear and then see the guardian charging. Stepping out of time, you go right around it and toward...another source of light. Curious.
>Entering into Alice's lair proper, you can see she has moved all of the furniture and the like, to make room for a large series of shapes exactly like those that she drew on Mitsu's floor. Alice herself rests in the middle of it, kneeling and concentrating.
>_