As soon as she had gotten the Groanspring Message (and it had been a bit longer than usual for two very good reasons; The first being she had to pack and the second being she had to hunt down Daisuke and give him a number of hugs before advancing to Alwine's room) Belladonna jumped up and dashed on over. Well, dashed is really the wrong word since it was more like 'quickly waddled'. The case for this being that Belladonna, in her infinite wisdom, had realized she would be unable to wear a hoop-skirt on the ensuing boat ride, for practical reasons, mostly that she didn't want to drown. Because of this, she needed one last night with her most prized fashion statement and was now wearing a hoop-skirt and two of the biggest petticoats she owned. Honestly she looked a bit like a person shoved into a puff cream pastry. But she wasn't complaining.

"Sorry I'm tardy to the party!" Belladonna chimed from the doorway as she entered, smiling at everyone. "Hi Alwine! Hi Junko! Hi Jericho, Miss No Mouth! Other people I don't know!" In fact, wearing all those petticoats was making the witch more giddy, if that was at all possible.