𝕿𝖜𝖔 𝕱𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝕺𝖓𝖊 ˢᴴᴬᴰᴼᵂˢ ᴴᴼᵁˢᴱ

Side Chapter: When the doll's away

Today was the day Arla was going outside to the main house and Charlotte decided to decorate and surprise Arla. She thought as she gathered her basket and took out various items such as ribbons, fabrics of different colours and patterns as well as some teddies she created.

She then walked towards the revolving door and opened it to get into a hallway that was lit by a gas light. She took the gas light and followed the path and got towards the big metal, she tried to open it but it was a struggle as she didn't have much upper body strength as she used to.

Oh why is this door so heavy! She thought as she gasped, but then she had an idea she brought her hand up and soot started to slither out of her hand and it grabbed the handle of the door and pulled. Arla groaned a bit but the door opened and Arla smiled with glee. She got it and looked around the elevator.

If I remember correctly. She thought as she brought her hand over to the lever and pulled. The elevator began to shake before it savagely descended, Charlotte had to grab the bottom and the end of her dress so she wouldn't fly everywhere. When she got down she was dizzy as she fumbled her way out of the door.

When the dizziness subsided she found her way into Arla's room and looked around. This absolutely won't do. She thought and grabbed the comforter from the box as well as Arla's nightcap as well as everything else that she'd want to decorate.

After another hellish trip on the elevator Charlotte took a short break and some tea to calm her nerves and her heart. Now it's time to get to work. Charlotte thought and soot started to sprout from her hair like tentacles as they helped Charlotte get to work.

Charlotte took the blanket and stretched it out wide so it covered the floor. Some soot reached into the basket and grabbed scissors and started cutting up fabric and others measured the and frew the areas in which the fabric was to be cut. And others if not most went around the blanket sewing intricate and beautiful designs around the blanket.

As they were doing that Charlotte was putting the finishing touches on the teddy bears she made. She then moved on to the nightcap and sewed some fabric flowers around it.

She then moved on to make seat pillows for the chair in Arla's room. She had been saving a lot of stuffing for this room makeover so she was well equipped with what she needed.

Charlotte looked to the blanket to check how work was coming up. And she was greatly satisfied the edges were done and now all that was left was the big centerpiece right smack dab in the middle.

Charlotte sat in the middle and the tentacles handed her the centre of the flower. It was a light blue in colour and Charlotte room extra concentration into making sure she made no mistakes. She looked outside to see that the sky was almost running out of time and started to speed things up.

Next were the petals and as she dealt with one, the tentacles dealt with the others. When they were done Charlotte got a soft blue sheet from one of her cupboards as well as pillow case and a bottle of lavender perfume and teddies and seat cushions and stuffed them all and some a very special picture she drew. And took them with her as she rushed back to Arla's room.

Charlotte looked into the room to see that Arla had not returned yet. She slid inside and set up. She opened the case and layed in the blue sheets and pillow and then finally the blanket and tucked in the edges before adding a teddy bear or two inside and closed the case.

She brought the seat cushions and tied them on the chair. She also got a dark blue lace and placed it on the table and some other areas where they could be good, then she put up all the remaining teddy bears. Once she was done she looked around and like the work she'd done, but now really looked like a room and not some sort of sick doll house.

She looked at the papers thst were stuck to the wall and took one to read. It was about how when a Shadows Master is extremely angry their soot won't come off and will stay there until they are calm.

After she was done looking at the papers and at her great handiwork to the room she left proudly back to her room and threw herself on her bed feeling the dizziness and she noticed one of the teddies she made, but it was incomplete as it was missing it's stuffing. It was a black bunny with a purple bow around its neck.

Hmm. She thought as she had an experiment she wanted to try out with it, but she decided she would save that for later.

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The door opened and Charlotte saw Arla coming in with her bangs hanging over her face and she looked slightly covered in soot.

"Arla welcome back, you must've worked hard. Why don't you go into the soot--Arla?" Charlotte said, confused when Arla walked in there without a word.

Is she angry? She thought as her soot started to bubble from her head showing her anxiousness.

Arla came back outside still silent and Freya approached her.

"Arla, are you alright if you are ang--whoa!" Charlotte yelped as Arla tackled her in a hug.

"Arla?" She said confused as to why she was ignored.

"My room...thank you...I love it." Arla said as she let go of the hug and her hands rested on Charlotte's shoulders and the soot stopped bubbling from Charlotte's head.

"I'm glad." Charlotte sighed with relief.

"So as thanks, I'll make you a cup of rose tea with cookies. I could do more but this is as much as I can do as a living doll." Arla said as she started to make it.

"It's alright." Charlotte said, happy that her other half sister is happy.

And the two spent the remainder of the day enjoying time together.