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She looked around and found the dress nearby "I guess I should at least give her dress back..." She stood up and went to grab the dress, then she returned to the doll's side and put the dress back on her feeling slightly embarrased.
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Meanwhile Xana founded something that resembled the artifact they were looking for, but it was behind a damn wall of debris "Great, and now physical labor?" She started cleaning the debris.

During the long search, the mental stress that had befallen Marie lessened and she had begun to start stirring awake.
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As for what Xana saw, the moment she'd be able to get all that debris pushed aside, the artifact would disappear, only for the entire house to suddenly have two or three of them in each room on the first floor.

"What in the actual fuck!?" Xana cursed, she was starting to get annoyed with this house, so she went back to the first floor and started looking at each one of them.
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Dixi noticed the doll waking up, she was supposed to be harmless now, but just in case, she kept her guard up, she was exhausted and her mind was almost broken during the fight but she could still give some fight to at least warn Xana.

"Huh...?" Marie rubbed her eyes and looked around the area, her eyes raising up to Dixi's face. Immediately, she stumbled away from Dixi in fear. "Get away from me! I'm done with Midara and magic!" she shouted, one of her clearest memories was Xana promising pleasure if she stopped fighting her. Needless to say, that didn't leave a good impression on her, even if they did save her.

"Hey, hey calm down, it's okay, don't worry, I won't hurt you okay? You are safe now..." She says trying to calm the doll as she aproached her.

"No! Promise me pleasure, will ya? You just want to take advantage of me too, just like she did!" she shouted, keeping her distance from Dixi.

On that point Xana returned to the room where Dixi was "Fricking artifact, fricking house, I'm so pissed off right now that I could... Oh, she woke up?" She asked after noticing the doll.
"Yeah, and she's really scared of me because of you..." She said reproching Xana's behavior during the fight.
"Huh?" She stopped to think for a moment "Oooh, the we can play thing... Yeah, I was kidding, no offense but not really my type." She casually said to the doll.
"You are unbelievable some times you know that right?" She then looked back at the doll "Don't be afraid, we don't want to take advantage of you, I promise, my name is Dixi, what's yours?"

She became even more scared when she realized that there was another one. She wasn't really functioning quite calmly, but then what could you expect when she was cursed and thrown out of control for who knows how long. She stayed silent and even contemplated trying to run away, though she doubted she'd get far.

Dixi let out a sigh "Listen, what can we do to prove we don't want to take advantage of you? We are here only to get something to help our friends, we don't want to hurt you." She explained.

As she started thinking things over, a few more memories managed to get through to her, such as seeing them in the room and herself throwing the controls onto the floor, then begging them for help. She remained wary of them, but she was able to calm down somewhat and actually speak. "Don't even think about trying charm me! I'll bet one of you's real weak or something. I might not be under that thing's control, but I'm still a Midara too!"

"I told you, we are not going to take advantage of you nor charm you and yeah I'm pretty weak right now after the fight." She admited making Xana speechless "Now would I admit that if I were trying to harm you?"

Admittedly, that confession did leave Marie speechless, of which she slowly came to contemplate her options. After finally coming upon a decision, she put her dress back on and, though keeping her distance, asked, "So, what do you want?"

"We are looking for something called the Red Hareing, it's reallu important that we find it miss... What was your name?" She asked.

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She stayed quiet for a moment before saying, "Marie...Marie O'Nette." She looked over at one of the false Red Hareings and realized what they were talking about. "Oh that?"

"Yes Marie, we really need that, we come from a midara Sanctuary and right now there is something lurking on it that is a thrat and we need the Hareing to find it." She explained.

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"A Midara...Sanctuary?" she said slowly, wondering if she should really tell them that that Red Hareing in this room was a fake or not.

"Yeah, it's a place where midara can live peacefully without being persuit for being midaras." Dixi continued.
"It's a pretty neat place, it makes even hybrids like us feel like home." Xana added while looking at the Hareings.

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"That one is a fake..." she told Xana pointing to one after a moment to consider things.

"Another fake huh? At least this time I didn't have to clean debris..." Xana replied.
"Hey Marie, how did you end up trapped by that thing?" Dixi asked.

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"I don't know...what year is it?" she asked them.

"Year? 2018, why?" meanwhile Xana kept looking between the different Hareings.

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"I've been stuck like that for about one-hundred and twenty-two years," she told them matter-of-factly, pointing out the fakes not long after that.

"It must have been rough, been here alone controlled by that thing..." She said feeling sorry for Marie.

Meanwhile, thanks to Marie's directions Xana managed to find the real Hareing.

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"That's putting it lightly," she said. "That vampire bitch did this...But, considering how this place looks, she's probably already dead. Wish I could've seen it..."
(Going to bed)

(gnight dude)

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