"Huh? Who? What the heck?" Eternia looked around but couldn't find out the origin of the voice. Nareen and Elizabeth also looked clueless.
"Down here, you sillies!" said the voice again.
As they looked down they finally noticed a tiny doll standing in the snow. She was tapping her foot impatiently, which made her purple locks bounce. On her head sat a cheap imitate princess crown.
"You run from me for almost two whole days and when I finally find you, you overlook me. Great, just great!" she said irritably.
"Who are you?" Eternia asked, flabbergasted.
Libra lended the hat from a My Little Pony.
"Oh, I'm just your local garden faerie, Christmas edition!"
"We have a local garden faerie?" Nareen wondered.
"Now don't interrupt me, I want to get this over with!"
"Ooops, sorry."
"I'm here as a messenger for the boss. She wants to inform you that she's sorry about the delay but your house is done now."
Well, yeah, I sew that dress but I admit it's awful.
Eternia scratched her head. "It's all Greek to me. The house is done?" A thought ran through her head. "Wait a second! Does that mean she's done stealing the rest of our furniture too?!"
"She didn't steal anything. I fetched those old things."
"You did?! You little thief, you!"
"I fetched those things on orders! If you had been at home more so I could have met you you would know about it! But you were always gone! And when that hen told me you were in the garden you weren't here either! I waited all day yesterday!"
Nareen stepped in again. "Wait a moment... So you said you had orders to take our things away. But why?"
The tiny doll gave her a blank are-you-serious stare. "To make space for the new things, of course."
"What new things?" Eternia was totally confused.
"Ah, I'll go bonkers thanks to you!" The tiny faerie held her head in her hands. "The new things that are waiting for you at the dollhouse!"
"There are new things for us?" Nareen echoed.
"Didn't I just say so, dummy?!" yelled the tiny doll. "I spent all morning bringing them in while you were loitering in the garden!"
"Whoa. Err... thank you, I guess." Nareen didn't know what to say. Eternia scratched her head again.
The faerie stomped away through the snow. "I'm never part-timing again! This just isn't worth the lousy pay." she mumbled.
"Hey... Thanks from me too!" Eternia called out after her.
Elizabeth looked at her new companions. "So... I take it in a way we're all new inhabitants to this 'new' dollhouse?"
"Hm. You may be right about that." the necromancer agreed. "This is all so weird. That tiny person carried our furniture away without being seen? And now the dollhouse is newly furnished?"
"We should go inside and check it out!" The redhead was already on her way to the door.
"Indeed. It's cold out here anyway."
After they left, a small figure peeled away from the shadows of the trees.
It was a little girl in a bear costume. For several moments, she stood there in the snow, staring at the dollhouse.
Her eyes burned with an inner fire.
"Now I found you, Tahome." she whispered. "You will pay for what you did to me. Fear my revenge!"
She started to let out a maniacal laugh when she heard a sniffing noise from the floor. Something tugged on her skirt.
"Huh... What? A... A dog?!"
Filou had found her.
"Waaaaah! Get it off! Get it offa me!" the girl screamed and ran away as fast as her plush legs would carry her.
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