"She fell asleep just like that."
Watching the little doll lie quietly asleep on the sofa cushion with Ominous Wandering Star in her arms, Huli could not help muttering.
Luna passed by the sofa, turned her head for a look, and slowly said, "Because it's bedtime."
"She certainly keeps regular hours." Huli glanced up at the clock on the wall, casually stuffed the yarn back into her tail, stood up, and stretched. "I'll take her back to her room."
"Don't wake her," Luna reminded her. "She'll be very... noisy."
"She won't wake up. I'm steady as can be~"
Huli said this smugly, then wrapped her tail around the little doll on the sofa and carried the little one upstairs.
Luna glanced at the television. An advertisement for a robotic vacuum was playing in the middle of the program. She tilted her head and watched for a while, then casually switched off the television and muttered, "What a... strange association..."
Huli reached the master bedroom on the second floor and found the neat row of boxes against the wall. She placed the little doll coiled in her tail into one of the boxes, then carefully took the stone ball from the doll's arms and set it on the bedside table, moving with such care that she made not a sound.
Once she was done, she straightened up and looked around. After sniffing hard, she found another sleeping Eileen under the bed. Judging by her appearance, she had probably fallen asleep while studying the flashlight function on the phone watch.
After that, the fox girl searched around the house again. She found one in the umbrella bucket and another on the attic shelf. Like collecting fragments, she finally gathered all of Eileen together and placed the several snoring little dolls into the