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Blinking hard once, twice, and a third time for good measure. She looked up and saw the corrupt offering her a hand. She took it and carefully hauled herself up, stumbling slightly. "Ten out of ten on the coolest weird things I've seen list. I'm good but, oh shoot, are you ok? I don't think I sat on the mini-you when I fell right?" Looking over the doll for a moment, it looked ok? At least she thought so but he looked a little green around the gills.

"Oh yea, what should I call you by the way? I'm Hela. I figure since we kinda did the whole magic thing I can at least get your name too right?" She hoped more corrupts were this chill, she had had nothing but trouble from one of the knights she had encountered. Most of her encounters had just been with other members of her court, the more she thought about it. This was the first corrupt she had ever met, or the first person from the other side of chaos in general.

Also now that she had grabbed his hand to get hauled up, she felt that the ball joints on his hands weren't really joints like a doll. It was smooth like normal skin on a normal person's hand. "Darn, so you aren't a doll." It was a bit of a tease as she poked the tattoos or makeup he had on him.

It was a hell of a mouthful and she was grateful for the nickname because it was going to be a mess for her to try saying the full thing. It was a lot more than any of the other names she had heard so far but still pretty cool

Pulling her hand back a bit at his flinching. "Oops sorry Mali, I was just super curious. I mean I think that would be the coolest thing in the world. I've always wanted to see something like that and I keep hoping that maybe alongside all the dangerous weirdness, something like that exists. Though I guess it could be scary to others, especially if it's like a possessed doll thing or those mannequins from Doctor Who."

It had been something she had wondered about since Almadel gave her that doll. Breathing life into art in that way would be the coolest thing, as long as it wasn't murderous. It was something she had felt strongly about as she worked on her own dolls, making their face-ups more and more lifelike as she went. Thinking things through for a moment, she wondered if other corrupts were this nice.

"I've asked you a million questions do you want to maybe take a rest somewhere and ask me some? I feel bad for bombarding you with stuff."

"That would be sooooo cool, I wonder what kind of stuff I'll be able to do in the future too. I think you'll make it there before me though, I'm still new ish to it all." She shrugged a bit before thinking about where the nearest place was for drinks and snacks.

"Oh oops sorry about that, I'm not really used to having someone who like isn't weirded out by dolls and things yanno? Not really many people are interested in that in the mountains. But I think there's this cool vending machine plaza nearby where it's like all different machines with international snacks and drinks. The whole place is unmanned so you can like take your time figuring out what kinda stuff you wanna try. I got some kimchi chips and a boba drink there last time." Leading him towards the store, she was happy to get to talk about some of the stuff she liked that others thought was weird.