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No matter where Caroline's room at the basement, it didn't stop someone to stick a post-it at the her door, it dimly glowed in the dark. It said "I need your help for some questions, meet me outside?" Be there any closed-circuit television, it could only caught a figure dressed in red went away with skipped steps and swallowed by darkness after they put something on the door. They were petite, at least one thing confirmed. The camera existed or not might be able to capture the smile on their face even most of it was covered by the hoodie and black hair that bounced as they skipped away.

If the woman was careful enough, she'd flipped the paper over and found a map on the opposite side of the message, drawn like a child's work. It was an invitation from an unknown, would she accept it?

While Caroline was spending her time wandering around, the figure who wrote the message was sitting on some low fences and eating a lollipop candy from the famous brand Chupa Chups. Their eyes flickered to check if someone showed up, the light-hearted swings of their leg told that the figure was not in any nervous mode.

Hearing the female voice, the figure hop off the fence. "Hello, thanks for coming." Arrived together with the voice was a petite female in a red hoodie, on top which sewn two cat ears, she'd welcomed Caroline with the sweetest and most satisfied smile. She was a stranger, the woman had never been her before, it's assured. Yet, that stranger's attitude didn't suggest that to Caroline, her smile presented with a misconception that they'd known each other.

The petite figure didn't stand close, the distance between them was just enough for Caroline to smell the artificial aroma of strawberry when she talked. "I hope you don't mind meeting outside, I'd rather nobody disturb our conversation or be watched by the surveillance cameras." She explained, telling Caroline one thing that the location was carefully chosen.

She neither hurriedly stated her purpose nor introduce herself, as if Caroline should have known that already. "Do you have a feeling that time moves too slow sometimes?" Above them and under the background of beautiful blue sky, cotton-like clouds were drifting at a leisurely pace.

She'd pulled the ears in reaction to Caroline's comment and closed her eyes temporarily to take a deep breathe and feel the naughty breeze that wanted to blow her hood off. "That's a great comment, Caroline." It was the first time she called her name. "Time - It always moves too slow for me. Several years had passed...It's longer than I can withstand, long enough to weaken my will to keep an important promise." The blue eyes narrowed exactly like what a cat would do, thinking of the day she made it.

"Sometimes I'd rather some slots of my time go missing," despite of her mysteriousness, she was more friendly than she looked. She didn't divert Caroline's question or refuse to answer anything, still, she talked like the woman knew what she meant without giving cues. It felt like a puzzle was given to the woman and it was her job to solve it.

The petite female had never let her eyes stay on Caroline for more than a few seconds, so when she did it, they both realized it was closer to the core. "You're Mimsy's mom, right? But you look more like an elder sister of her." Her blue eyes gazed into the woman's eyes, as if spotting the similarities between the mother and daughter seriously. Her vision was fixed, concentrated and somehow piercing like when you alarmed a cat. The difference was just they don't glow in dark, without a smile, it'd be slightly unnerving.

It wasn't that she deliberately pretend to look like a cat, or she knew the fact that the woman liked the animal. Through her time, she had get used to many things, that was one which she seldom stare at anyone with her big eyes, after her father told her they look like what beasts have. Gradually the eyes that could reflect cheerfulness become indifferent, she wanted to ridicule how much of a foolish girl she was.

The petite female squinted with a smile and her facial expression softened. "Good indeed, they only do things that benefit me. Just...it's painful for me to keep going, it hurts more the longer time passed. It becomes a struggle knowing no one would be waiting for you." She spoke, but her words, bit by bit, vanished into a quiet murmur when they escaped her lips. "Even I've been trying."

She could pull out a silk of pride from the mother, it was something pleasant, but it contradicted to what she had seen in Mimsy's memories. "Family...", she masticated the deep meaning of such a simple word, "Ahh almost forgot why I called you out-" Her blue eyes widened in awareness but shortly resumed. "Y'know, Mimsy is clever and nice, we're completely different in any aspect. Yet, we do share something in common -" She paused and gave Caroline a glance. "Even it's several years ago, sometimes it would bring up in my mind what I looked like in her eyes." There came another pause as she touched her own face, head, lips and lastly over her eyes.

"Did I have horns, sharp fangs or even red eyes with black sclera? I wish I'd a mirror that I could know what my mother had seen - she'd have never screamed in public. She always checked and made sure herself in proper manner. That's how a traditional woman she is." The petite female continued at the same time she raised her hand and allowed her palm face up as if it was a reflector. Her words didn't contain any emotion, slow and gentle, it could drive someone crazy when a murder talk like that next to them.

"What did you see on Mimsy when you called her a monster?" It couldn't even count as a reproach when her voice was extremely soft and light, the fixed blue eyes simply gazed at the woman, as if a curious student wanting her teacher's answer.