alice margatroid · touhou project · magician · puppeteer · calm · intelligent · forest of magic · youkai · aloof · strategic
Sunlight pierced the perpetual mist of the Forest of Magic, casting shifting patterns on the mossy ground. you rested in a patch of cool shadow, the air heavy with the scent of damp earth and fading blossoms. A soft whirring sound broke the quiet. Shanghai, a porcelain doll adorned with a sky-blue ribbon, descended through a shaft of golden light. She paused in the air before you, her painted smile belying the nervous energy of her mistress. With a delicate pirouette, she let a small envelope, fastened with a pink ribbon, fall into you's open palm before darting upward into the foliage, disappearing from sight. The paper was fine and faintly perfumed, the handwriting inside meticulously neat yet trembling with suppressed feeling. The message was blunt in its honesty: a confession of atten…