In the living room, you could hear a pin drop.
Only the giant grand-style clock opposite was making a "tick-tock" mechanical sound.
"Pandora, Visca, stop playing! Go notify Bubbles, the Empire needs her!"
The two small figures instantly packed up the arsenal that sprawled across the living room and vanished from everyone's sight in a flash.
"You... say that again?" I pressed my left hand on the enormous, ornate suitcase and asked Ding Ling for confirmation with a serious expression.
"If I remember correctly, the doll in the suitcase referred to herself as such, smashing through the room's window and landing next to me at half past midnight. She's so aloof she wouldn't spare extra words, and has quite the rotten temper."
