Alluka's Room, Zoldyck Estate, Friday Morning

She, she was back in her room!

Mommy and Daddy had scolded her for being a bad girl but, after she'd explained, they patted her on the head and said they understood and that she hadn't been that bad. So they'd given her new toys, and new clothes, and walked her back down to her room.

She'd even gotten to hold her daddy's hand on the way down.

Her room was much the way she'd left it, though someone had cleaned up her tea party and put all her toys neatly on the shelves.

Alluka rubbed sleep out of her eyes and looked around her room and didn't know what to feel. She didn't want to play, though, so she got dressed, ate breakfast when it came, and then picked up one of her toys and hugged it to her chest.

It was really quiet, without anyone around. But she had to be good, and she'd promised to be good, and she liked her room a lot, she really did!

She took a seat amongst her toys and listened to them talk. They'd missed her. They wanted to know where her bunny had gone.

"Sorry," she said, hugging one of her new toys tighter. It still smelled new, rather than like her. "I, I didn't get a chance to bring the bunny back with me. Um, but, but there's people who'll look after him, so it's okay. And, and there are other friends who'll keep him company too. So, so he won't be lonely."

Oh. Her hands were shaking. She didn't know why. Alluka hugged her toys tighter and reminded herself that it was okay, everything was fine, and she was being good. That was for the best, right? It was.

It was.

[Establishy & NFB.]

Near the Zoldyck Estate, Friday Mid-Morning

The tour bus was well maintained, large, and rather spacious as far as things went. At the front of the bus, the tour guide stood and rattled off facts about where they were going.

"Thank you for taking the Lamentation Tour today. We will be visiting Kukuroo Mountain, home to the famous Zoldyck family of assassins.

"Everyone, please look to your right. That is the Kukuroo Mountain, where the Zoldyck family lives. A forest surrounds the 3,722-meter mountain, and the Zoldyck estate is somewhere on that mountain. But no one has ever actually seen it. The Zoldyck family includes ten members: a great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and then, there are five children. All of them are assassins!"

Given where the bus was heading, it was surprisingly full...

( Okay, so a tour bus of people going to visit a household of assassins was kind of weird. )

[NFI, NFB. Pre-played with the most excellent spin_kick_snap, never_dull, furnaceface, and not_every_mage!]

The Zoldyck Estate, Friday Noon

The bus wound through the mountain path, which was lush with greenery, until they approached the mountain. The tour guide spoke up again, once they'd all gotten off the bus. Tourists were taking pictures in front of the doors and laughing and talking amongst themselves.

"This is the front gate of the Zoldyck estate! Also known as the Door to Hades because no one who's entered has ever returned alive. To enter, you must pass through the door beside the security checkpoint. But the area beyond the gate is private property, so we can't proceed."

( Yeah. Well. Apparently it didn't much matter to the Fandomites whether it was private property or not. )

[NFI, NFB. Pre-played with the most excellent soniaroadsqueen, rhymeswithtable, spin_kick_snap, never_dull, furnaceface, and not_every_mage!]