Doll walks toward its counterpart. And it thinks. Does the other Doll think? It isn't sure. But it knows how to fight like Doll, so Doll should try not to fight like Dolls normally do.

How do Dolls normally fight? As they come closer, Doll stumbles. And Doll is lucky it did, because the other swings its knife wildly, and it sails over Doll's head.

If Doll hadn't fallen, it would have been split in two. But Doll...

Wait, Doll leaps! It flies past the other Doll, and this time, it lands! It swings around, happy, as the other Doll swings itself round and begins stumbling its way back.

Doll has time to think. If Doll can keep leaping, Doll has lots of time to think.

Perhaps... It can swing while leaping? It might go poorly, but Doll has no better idea. Doll waits...

...Closer...

Waits...

...Closer...

LEAPS

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And, as the other Doll tries to raise its knife, Doll pushes the knife down as hard as it can. And, in among the confusing switch of ceiling ground ceiling, it hears a scream.

Can Doll land? Can- Doll lands!

It hurts, and Doll can't move as well, because its feet hurt a lot, but Doll starts stumbling its way back to the other.

Because the other has lost its knife. And a Doll without a knife can't do anything. Doll's mouth opens.

"Friends don't hit each other!"

And it swings, the other Doll's head flying, and... KRSH

Doll's arm is lighter. And Doll quickly realises it's because Doll's knife has broken.

Doll is really annoyed. After all, for some reason, it can't let go of the knife. And it still didn't say what it wanted to say. But irritation turns to curiosity, as it looks down at the body of the other Doll.

Does the other Doll... Have food inside it? Doll's knife is split, but it still has a blade, and it takes the few short steps it needs to cut the other's back open.

Reach inside, reach insi- Ah!

Doll feels that strength. It doesn't feel anything else, and it doesn't get anything new, but something much more important happened.

Doll's knife... Grew back. It was so quick Doll didn't notice, but its knife is as if it had never been broken.

And Doll can feel something else. It feels... No, it's that knowing without knowing how it knows again. It knows it can leap better.

Footsteps!

Doll leaps back, going backwards for the first time in its life. There are four... Four...

Adventurers. Yes. The most dangerous things. Doll hops and hops, back and back, until it swings itself round a corner.

After all, Doll may be in danger. But Doll wants to know more things...