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Alex blinked then smiled a wry smile, closing her eye and whispering, "no I don't need him," she cleared her throat and swallowed, "could you whistle 'pop goes the weasel' for me? Just the 'pop goes the weasel' part."

"Thanks," said Alex calmly, moving her braid from over her shoulder back to her back, "I have too many dangling things," she said to herself. There was a soft scuttling noise and soon the white gerbil came running down the stairs. It hopped over to the table and climbed up Alex's leg the onto her shoulder, "there you are Kuniko, good boy, glad to know you weren't eaten by the cat," the woman said almost affectionately as the rodent began to look around for his treat. After all he had come to the whistle.

After finding nothing Kuniko sat back and cleaned his whiskers. Maybe she was dying. That would be her luck, Sephiroth curse her with something that killed her slowly, completely opposite from the fiery death she thought would be her way to go.

"Hm? I turned into a frog?" she thought for a moment but had no recollection of ever changing shape, just the words 'pale horse' then nothing, "I'm sorry I missed that, must have been funny."

Alex opened her eyes slightly as Gren described her return to the inn. When he finished Alex was silent before she chuckled, turning slightly as her eyes closed, "that sound's hilarious," she said flatly, "someone should have taken pictures or something. That would have been awesome."

She hummed slightly, the smile fading back to her normal expression with a pleased sigh, "probably. I doubt a spell called 'pale horse' turns one into a frog as it's sole... consequence...."

"It's really bad when I can't think of words," Alex said to herself before watching Gren leave. She moved her head over to the other side as he walked up the stairs and waited silently for him to come back. When he did Alex looked at the horn and a series of emotions moved through her face from confusion, to revelation, to wonder, then back to confusion before settling back into boredom, "worth a shot."

Alex hummed and closed her eyes as a warm sensation ran through her, emanating from the point in her back. It felt like a really nice massage. After a while Alex opened her eyes and sat up. She hummed as if waking up from a nice sleep and stretched.

"It worked," she said and lifted herself out of the seat, "feels nice. I guess it's not a surprise considering unicorn horns heal EVERYTHING," she spread her hands out at the word and sighed, closing her eyes and rolling her neck on her shoulders, "much better, thanks."

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a crouton and handed it to the gerbil. He accepted it gratefully, though having long forgotten what it was he did to deserve it. She looked over at Gren then at the horn and finally asked, "so who killed the unicorn?" even she felt it was wrong to kill such a pure creature.

Alex blinked and looked over at the two before she said in a very flat tone, "what did you do to Yuffie's materia?"

"No idea...I bought it in..." his voice trailed off, snapping his fingers. "I think I know who could help with this fake materia thing."