"Not at all." Roxie answered with a shake of her head.

"... Other than actually feeling like I belong there. It's a little thing, but... Still." She added with a heavy sigh.

"I don't feel like anyone is judging me because they know what I am. Admittedly they don't know, but still.... It's... It's nice."

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"Doesn't mean people like me." Roxie commented honestly.

"Some of the few who know how we met, hold that against me, stating that I don't deserve to have the freedom I do." She then said before sighing.

"regardless, I haven't outright seen anything.... Alarming toward myself as of yet. I'll definitely keep you and/or azazel apprised of if anything comes up."

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"Nothing." Roxie said.

"Sorry I don't have more actually pertinant information or anything for oyu." She added.

"Anyway, I should probably head back, before it's noticed I'm gone." She then said as she got to her feet. As she did so, there was something... odd... to it.

It was subtle, but it was there.

She didn't seem to notice it though.

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Roxie was silent before a moment before checking herself over. She didn't seem to bend her torso too much though in the process.

"eh?" She asked.

"It's just as it always has been? If any better, maybe it's because I'v ebeen wearing heels." She added with a light shrug.

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Roxie was silent before sighing and doing as he said.

She was able to reach her toes, yes, but .... in no way did it look right. After she straightened up, she sighed.

"..... I blame the mana around the estate." She then said, crossing her arms. It wasn't hard to ell that there was something more to it, that she just wasn't picking up on.

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"Nothing that I've been asked to do has been hindered." Roxie answered after a moment or two before approaching Hal.

"May I?" She asked. When he nodded, she stepped behind him and laid her hands on his shoulders before starting to work them.

He may not have known that she could do that in the first place, but it was quite evident that her manual dexterity for things like that was unaffected. Completely. So much so that if it was affected, it would be easy to believe that whomever she treated as such would be putty in her paws, so to speak.

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Roxie didn't say anything for a minute or so before stopping and stepping away.

"It's a learned skill." She commented.

"I'm sure you can hazard a guess as to why." She added with a smirk as she made her way in front of his desk again.

"Suffice to say, I'm good with my hands." She added with a smirk before pausing and sighing.

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Roxie just sighed before shaking her head.

"I'm all right, mostly. Y'know, recently discovered movement issues aside." She told him honestly.

"anyway, I should head back. Lest anything... well... if I'm found to not be on the grounds, I'll be in a shitton of trouble."

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Roxie paused a moment.

".... As I said earlier, I blame the mana around the estate." She stated simply.

"As I realised something was up as it hurt, almost exorbitantly, to just bend over." She added. "So I realise that there's something going on, even if I can't figure out what"

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Roxie was silent for a moment before sighing, havily.

"You know I hate doing this." She said simply.

"But I wish to know what is happening to me." She added. Hal nodded as he snapped his fingers.

When she fully realised it, she wasn't sure how to process it.

"All right... now then, another." she said, meeting his gaze.

"I wish to know why he's doing this."

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