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Bells rang, and Kaijuu entered the building. Thyme was clutched tightly in her hand. She obviously didn't want to chance it rolling out of her grip as her last visit to the shop. She honestly didn't know herself why she made another trip to the crazy asylum, but something beckoned her to do so. Strangely enough, she associated the feeling with her Yakumi. Which made her feel... Akward.
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Ivy'd made a habit of stopping by the shop whenever she was in town, just to check if anyone was there. Today, when she walked by, she saw Kaijuu inside. Thinking back on the last time she'd seen her, she remembered Kaijuu's disbelief in the experiments, and also her bottle of Thyme rolling off the table.

Ivy pushed open the door and smiled at the girl. "Back for more questions Kaijuu?" She asked as she took Sage out from behind her ear.
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Kaijuu swiveled towards Ivy like a doe caught in the headlights. She intook a deep breath in shock and exhaled it just as quickly.
"Oh." she managed, "It's just you." She nodded to herself as if confirming what she just said. She lifted thyme up so that Ivy could see it.
"I just wanted to ask the old lady that runs this place when this thing grows-" she caught herself and corrected, "IF this thing grows..." She blushed slightly.
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Ivy smiled at Kaijuu's slip up, "Well, I asked her once, but I don't think I got a straight answer." She cocked her head to side and examined the Thyme bottle more. "I keep wondering why she gave me a sprig of a plant and everyone else I've met has bottles..."
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Kaijuu gently consoled Ivy with the only logical answer she could think of, which wasn't much considering nearly all logic was diminished since she was introduced to the crazy old lady.
"Well, the bottles have materials you would get from plants..." she started, "Maybe it'll 'become' a bottle?"
She put a heavy, pointless emphasis on the word, 'become'.
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Ivy laughed at Kaijuu's obvious disbelief. "You know, if you didn't believe that these things would grow, you wouldn't be here right now, and you would've added that stuff," she pointed to Yakumi, "to a pasta. So the way I figure, you've gotta believe it and you just don't want to admit it." Ivy nodded as if to put an end to it.
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"I'm allergic to thyme." Kaijuu remarked, smiling wryly at Ivy, "So I see no point in eating it."
She pointedly did not answer Ivy's valid point on actually being here if she didn't believe it.
"At least I have an excuse to keep the thyme out of my mouth..." she mimicked Ivy's confirming nod, "What's your excuse?"

Yakumi, ridiculously uncomfortable with this topic, wiggled back and forth to try to escape. Though, she came up to no avail.
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"Me? I don't need an excuse. My only excuse is, I believe the crazy old lady. Why would I ever want to eat my child?" She cuddled Sage lovingly. "That's a shame that your allergic to thyme though, I hope that it won't affect the way you interact with it when it grows." She was glad that she was not allergic to sage.

Sage watched the bottle and envied it's manuverability; he could barely twitch and there it was wiggling.
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Kaijuu was suprised with Ivy's bluntness, but she showed no such emotion.

Noticing Sage's envy, Yakumi laughed as a bottle could. She sent a mocking image of her batting her non-existant lashes at him. Then, with one last wiggle, she made it out of Kaijuu's grasp and fell towards the ground, hitting it with a clunk.

Cursing silently, Kaijuu knelt down to grab the bottle. Before she managed to touch it, it rolled out of her grasp towards one of the towering shelves. Soon, it was hidden under it's lowest platform- right out of Kaijuu's reach.
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Ivy smirked at Kaijuu, "Yes and normal bottles of Thyme fall out of a sturdy grip, and roll when approached. Face it, you, like me, are stuck with a new child."

Sage blushed as a plant could, and tried to pretend he didn't exist.
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Kaijuu looked at Ivy with a dry expression, and turned back to where Yakumi disappeared under the shelf.
"Care to give me a hand?" she sighed, "I need something long and thin."
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"Sure," she chirped cheerfully. She took a quick inventory of the shop and finally found a wooden stirring spoon. "This should do it." Placing Sage on the table she went over to where Kaijuu was and kneeled down. She placed her head next to the ground to see where the bottle was and then began to push the handle of the spoon near the bottle, swiping, trying to get it to roll out. "We could just ask it nicely?" She said laughing.
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"Oh YES!" she growled sarcarstically, "We'll ask nicely.. Surely it'll come out if we do."
She rose her voice and made it honey-dripping sweet yet covered with sarcasm, "Oh, dear Yakumi? Do mummy a big favor and come out to her? I'll love you forever and ever!"

To her shock, after she finished cooing to Yakumi, the thyme bottle rolled back out and knocked gently against her leg.

Kaijuu gaped.
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Even Ivy was surprised as the the bottle rolled out to hit Kaijuu. Smiling, rather smugly, she set the spoon down and looked over at the stunned girl. "Never hurts to ask nicely, that's what my mother told me." Still, the shock of it was still in her. "Pretty amazing."
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"I don't believe this..." she muttered softly, rubbing her face with her hands, "This just isn't logical..."

Yakumi, who was enjoying every moment of Kaijuu's shock, 'glanced' up at the Sage. She obviously wanted him to do something while the two girls were distracted. She longed heavily for something new to happen.
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"No no dear, you DO believe, you just don't want to." Ivy corrected cheerfully. It was all rather fascinating and it made her so excited to see life. "It doesn't have to be logical; it just has to be true."

[Sage was a bit confused by all the action going on; he couldnt' see everything from his perch on the table. It was useless trying to move on a flat surface he discovered. Instead he sent thoughts at his mother, willing her to bring him to where she was.

Ivy's brain didn't even click onto the fact that she was standing and picking up Sage, until she was already back down near Kaijuu and Yakumi. She set him down and thought for a momet, that was rather odd.

I have mind control...
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Kaijuu watched as Ivy stood to grab the sage plant and sit back down. She looked... Mindless; almost zombie-like. She shivered involuntarily.

Yakumi's thyme leaves fluttered happily within their casing, almost impressed by Sage's abilities. She took Kaijuu's distracted mind to roll towards the sage.
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"Anyhow," she continued as if it'd never happened, "Don't you think that this is pretty undeinable proof of the crazy lady's story?"

Sage watched as the bottle rolled nearer toward him and he hoped it didn't crush him. He wished for a mouth and wondered who the bottle was. It made him happy to be around someone like him, not that he didn't adore his mothers odd way. He twitched a bit in a form of greeting.
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Kaijuu eyed Ivy skeptically, slightly preterbed by her odd attitude.
"Well," she began cautiously, "I don't see any proof yet that confirms her story."

Yakumi's leaves swiveled in place as if greeting him as well. There wasn't much she could say, considering she was- Well... A bottle.
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"Sheesh, dear, say it out loud or war it in your mind, too many weird things happen regarding these bottles to deny the lady's story. I like to think that it's true, it's harmless, and if it really is true then all the better. I also think Sage talks to me." Ivy said, not the least bit shamed at sounding like a looney.

Rather frustrated Sage twitched again. He wanted to speak, to be able to communicate in a definite manner than just random twitching and leaf wiggling.
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Kaijuu stared at Ivy with a look of disbelief. She grabbed Thyme and sighed.
"You keep believing that, Ivy." she cooed carelessly, "But I won't believe what the lady says until I see some material proof."
With that said and done, she walked out of the building, without one last glance back.
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Scooping Sage up Ivy headed for the door looking down at the little plant... "Hmm... d'you think she likes us?" Giggling she walked into the sunlight and down the street.