[hr]ATTN: [@PaulHaynek] (Sorae & Blacksmith)[hr][quote=Sorae]"[color=mediumslateblue]You don't remember how you got a wound? Did you change your memories too when you changed your look?[/color]"[/quote]
Alice rolled her eyes, "[color=976f29][i]People keep asking me that, like I'm supposed to know. Does it matter what I do and don't remember, warrior woman? Unless we slept together, you're wasting time.[/i][/color]"

[quote=Sorae]"[color=mediumslateblue]Anyway, I believe you got that from pursuing the students of the Heavenly Strike. The aforementioned technique being an attack that strikes quicker than the eye could see. You can get the details from that storyteller fellow, Katsuhiro.[/color]"[/quote]
"[color=976f29][i]Katsuhiro, eh,[/i][/color]" Alice asks, crossing her arms with a nod. "[color=976f29][i]Heavenly Strike. Feels familiar to me... Sounds like something that could cut me...[/i][/color]"

[quote=Sorae]"[color=mediumslateblue]From what I heard, you've been beaten back by the students twice now, so you and half of the taskforce trained a bit for your rematch against them. Not sure what the results of that training, though.[/color]"[/quote]
Alice's right eyebrow twitches, as she growled out, "[color=976f29][i]I have three centuries of swordsmanship under my belt. Multiple lifetimes of you, Human. I don't need training...[/i][/color]"

[quote=Sorae]"[color=mediumslateblue]Since it appears you've lost your memory, it appears all that training was for naught. If I were you, I'd just get strength from numbers. The students can handle one yokai, or two non-coordinating ones, but any more than that and they'll be overwhelmed.[/color]"[/quote]
"[color=976f29][i]The hell if I would rely on anyone to hold my side. I take the frontline as sword and shield,[/i][/color]" Alice says. "[color=976f29][i]Though, I am glad you aren't me,[/i][/color]" she says, "[color=976f29][i]I wouldn't send the peasantry against the soldiery, when I can swing a sword.[/i][/color]"

Alice would take note of Eula's return, and look at her curious, as Sorae took note of her, too.

[quote=Sorae]"[color=mediumslateblue]Welcome back. You sure you're not needed anywhere else?[/color]"[/quote]
"[color=976f29][i]I'd ask you the same,[/i][/color]" Alice interjected, well-aware that Sorae was speaking to Eula, "[color=976f29][i]However, I'd say you are where you should be: comfortably on the backlines, where cowards huddle to give orders to the expendable.[/i][/color]"

Turning on her heel, Alice would head off to ask around for Katsuhiro, and start to recover a fragment of her memories...[hr][quote=Blacksmith]"[color=fff79a]If your blades need work, Lady Yokai, then let me be of use.[/color]" He greeted.[/quote]
Carroll nodded, before the long lock of hair that flowed to her thigh started to move, and reached under her cloak -- popping off her left arm, followed by her right. As they were set on the table, they would warp-spasm, and turn into a pair of six-foot blades akin to two, mismatched halves of a pair of scissors; the left blade was a vibrant violet with an open, circular handle, while the right blade was a resplendent ruby with an open, semi-circular handle.

"[color=808080][i]Can you sharpen vorpal steel,[/i][/color]" Carroll asks. "[color=808080][i]Benihime and Nozarashi are feeling dull,[/i][/color]" she says, pushing the left sword forward, then the right sword, respectively, "[color=808080][i]I understand, if you can't, of course. After all, I doubt you have much experience with Wonderlandian metals and smithing.[/i][/color]"