"C'mon Medi! Get up! It's been a month!"

"Leave me alone..." The doll said. She was depressed. Since Mokou has been gone, Medicine has found it harder and harder to keep herself in her norma;l joyful, yet insane, mood.

"Medicine...get up already! This is pathetic!" Aya yelled, poking the doll with her pen.

Medicine kept quiet, but closed her eyes, lying against the tent. "Want to loose your wings?" She asked.

"Like you would do that!" Aya said, grinning. "I'm the master of bluffs here." She chuckled, seeing a large blob of poison slowly grow in front of her, pooling poison from the suzurans.

"Now..please leave me alone or I will melt those wings to the bone." the tsukumogami said, her eyes still closed.

Aya growled, but gave up. "Fine, fine! I'll leave, but you better cheer up latter." The tengu said, backing up and watching the poison slowly return to the suzurans. She extended her wings and rocketed off, creating a large boom of wind in her wake.

Medicine slowly got up and opened her eyes. "...Mokou." She said, low. She slowly walked into her tent and went through a small sack, pulling out one of Mokou's talismans. "Get back soon..."

It was the next day, and Medicine was still the same.

"Oh c'mon~ze!"

"I'm not going Marisa! She'll kill us!"

"She's not doing anything, don't worry. She'll kill herself before anyone else in her current state." Marisa said, leading Alice to the Nameless Hill. The witch was in need of poison and the Hill was the best, yet most dangerous, place.

"What's with her...?" Alice asked, looking around as they grew near. Medicine would have attacked them by now, direct or indirect.

"Doll's depressed. The Fujiwara girl left and she didn't come back~ze." Marisa said, kneels down and plucking some flowers from the ground.

Alice braced herself. Nothing. The doll maker looked around. "This isn't right..she would have attacked us by now..."

"Who cares! I need my poison anyway for the potions." Marisa said, putting the flower bulbs in a satchel. "Just some a few more and we can go~ze."

Alice looked around. "I'm worried actually..." She said, walking into the heart of the Nameless Hill. The normal cloud of poison that floated around was drastically reduced, making only a pins-and-needles effect on her body. "Medicine?" She called out, her eyes scanning everywhere they could. "Medi?"

"Done!" Marisa said, looking up. "Alice? Where'd ya go?" She asked as she got up, spying the trail into the field. The black-white sighed and followed. "She's gonna kill me one of these days~ze..."

Alice slowly walked into the heart of the field, spying the tent and Medicine, lying against it as always. "Medicine...?" She asked, walking up to the tsukumogami.

"Leave me alone..." The doll said, turning away.

"Your..not attacking me..." The doll maker said.

"You want me to?"

The puppeteer shock her head. "But..what's wrong. This isn't like you, heck Marisa took some flowers!"

Medicine sighed, not replying verbally. "Just..leave me alone Alice..."

Alice's eyes opened. "She called me Alice..this is bad." She said to herself.

"Yo Alice!" Marisa yelled as she hurried to the two. She froze seeing Medicine. "She attackin' us?" She asked, nervous. She seen Alice shake her head, the witch sighing, relived. "What's with her?"

Medicine spoke up. "Mokou..."

Marisa nodded. "Heart broken eh?" She chuckled.

Alice shot Marisa a dirty look. "Oh shut up Marisa!" she snapped.

"Whoa, I'm not the bad guy here~ze! She tried to kill us!" The witch replied in her defense.

"Just leave..." Medicine said, not even threatening the two.

The two mages looked at each other. "Um..alright~ze?" Marisa spoke up, grabbing Alice's hand and running off.

Alice, getting dragged, looked at the witch. "She needs help Marisa!" Alice said.

"It's a trap Alice!"

Another few days rolled by, Medicine doing what she has been doing: Sulking and taking care of her flowers when she felt like she had the energy. Alice worried and tried to lift her moods, none even getting a response, friendly or hostile, out of the tsukumogami.