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Helping newcomers settle in

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A follow up to an Awkward Reunion...

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Rose, like pretty much all the Houses' residents save Lily took some time to uneasily adjust to her new life as a living doll. The most obvious was the fact that she spent days on end lying conscious but inert. This was not as much of a problem as she had previously expected,  it was not sleep, though she did find being under covers warm and cozy, but if she remained in that state for more than fifteen minutes or so and there was no serious motion around her the part of her mind which got board switched off and the experience was relaxing. Occasionally part of her mind would fill her field of view with a transparent "dreams" in the longer stretches. But in general just being with Michelle made it more pleasant. Rose knew on an instinctive level this was Michelle was Her Doll and vice versa. Even after months of this there was part of her mind which strongly rebelled against the thought but never the less at an instinctive level that she was a doll and that dolls were made to have, for want of a better term, an owner who loved them. The fact that possession in this case was a two way street was not a contradiction, Michelle was a doll herself and had the same needs. It was still akward.

As an unexpected bonus of this, both Rose and Michelle found that they could move around a fair bit. Rose would be able to move about every two or three days or so they could get up and wander the house while Michelle could do so for every three or four days. Michelle told Rose that before she had come and changed into what she was now she would go down for tea once a fortnight weather she wanted to or not. The only problem was that that every other period of mobility Rose was mobile she had an uncontrollable urge to make sure everything was neat and tidy. This was not so bad as Ron had always been a bit of a neat freak but it came with a while having a compulsion to bow before other dolls (even if they were laying still) and then pull her string just to call them as "Madam..." in an embarrassed but reverential tone. That habit of speech would remain with her even on the non cleaning days when referring to or talking to other dolls save Michelle when the two of them were in their room. Why did this house feel that she needed to be the bloody maid?

 Other than that they spent time reading or listening to music in the library, went to the tea parties (where Rose discovered that a cup with a glass sugar cube in it that had invisible tea poured into it from an empty teapot, could, if put against her lips and 'teeth' of a living doll could never the less deliver the experience of a human drinking a cup of the aforesaid leaf derived beverage, the same applied to ceramic biscuits and cakes), talked (though she found out that dolls did not swear, it always came out as 'poot', 'darn', 'sugar' and similar) and a few other activities. After a little talking Lily showed them the ways she knew to get out. They tried writing these down and leaving notes about the place to try to save some soul from turning all plush like they did, but they soon found out that if you tried to do this directly the words reworked themselves into a picture of a fish or something, unless they were really cryptic and there was only one or two of them in a room.

One day a few months after Rose's transformation, both Rose and Michelle felt a subtle change which something deep down in their stuffing told them that there were some humans that had come in. At first they decided to try to tell them the way out, only for their voiceboxs to say "Hello! I'm Michelle, will you be my friend?" and "Good evening madam. How may I help you?" This only succeed in frightening two of the four people that came in, even though they kept out of view and fled their sight. They knew it was the house that was keeping them silent. Rose followed one of them around, a young blonde man until he got it into his head to enter the greenhouse, got a flower pot and tried to break his way out. This never worked. The Dollhouse's windows was as strong as steel, healed and trying to break it resulted in a sudden burst of light and a shockwave that threw him back. When he put his hand to to his head, he noticed that it had slimmed down a fair bit and that change was running up his arm. Rose was annoyed by the fact that she would have to clean all that up, followed him along as the changes set in over a few minutes and then left to find Michelle once her left leg became too floppy to stand with. She was not far off, but the transformation was done by the time they got there.

She pulled her string and heard and got what she expected.

"Hi! My name is Stephanie. I hope can be friends."

And so Steph entered the family. As lying in the hallway all day and possibly getting trodden on by one of your friends is never fun, the two of them picked up the new resident and carried her over to one of the bedrooms to tuck her in. As they went by, they were noticed by another woman who got a clear view of them halfway through her transformation into a clockwork doll. Rose knew that she would have to see to her as well, and that this seen would be somewhat akward. That would increase the number of clockwork dolls in the house to two, maybe Jane could show her the ropes of living with a key in your back. But at the very least once this was done they could wind her up to help smooth things over.

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