I HAVE MADE A WALL.

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Time to take the initiative. Remilia obviously wants to be around you, she's enjoying this. You need to make sure things shape up in your favor, get stuff out into the open. The fewer hidden fault lines in this place the better.

"Remi," you start. "About what I said earlier."
"Hmm?" She looks up from her food.
"About you and Flandre." You say gently.
Remilia looks away from you, obviously uncomfortable.
"I hope I've been helpful, Remi."
She chews her lip in silence.
"I'm not going to pressure you, I only feel that it's important you try to close the rift between you and her."
She says something below her breath, too quiet for you to hear.
"What was that?" You ask.
"I said I know. I know I need her."
"You need her?" You ask, unsure what she means.
Remilia sighs and rubs her eyes, averting the oncoming redness.
"I mean I love her." She says. "It's hard, there's so much unsaid between us I don't know how to deal with it."
"What's unsaid?" You ask.
"The fact that I was her jailer, that I was afraid of her for so long, that I'm sorry."

"Okay then Remi. Why did you lock her away?"
Remilia sighs again, but she looks calm and rational.
"For her own safety. She might be lethal but she doesn't know how to control it perfectly. She's not ... invincible. I might have been able to protect her from a hunter or an angry mob but what happens when an army turns up on my doorstep? What then? That's why I came here."
"To Gensokyo?"
"Yes, fewer people. Safer. I thought she could finally be let out here, be free."
"What went wrong?" You ask.
Remilia laughs. "Youkai are stronger than they look. I had to reach a compromise with the locals."
"Ah," You say. "Yes, I've heard about that."
"So Flandre stayed locked away. In the end it wasn't even me who let her out. Fucking magician bitch." Remilia's tone turns angry when talking about Marisa.
"But you're making progress now, real progress." You say, trying to get the subject back on track.
"I know. T-thankyou." Remilia reaches across the table and takes you hand for a moment.
"Just don't forget how dangerous she can be." She warns you.
You nod and give her hand a little squeeze.

This reminds you of something.

"Speaking of people making progress, I think I have some good news for you." You say.
"Oh?" Remilia perks up.
"Did you know that Alice stayed with Patchouli last night?" You ask.
"The Dollmaker? Why?" Remilia frowns for a second, then her eyes get wide. "Oh." She says. "You weren't spying on them were you?"

Why must everyone in this house assume you're a pervert? Well, you are, but you've been controlling yourself very well in a house full of beautiful (if very dangerous) women.

"Of course I wasn't." You insist. "I just helped convince Alice to stay here."
"Well ..." Remilia pauses, a slow smile forming on her face. "I never thought that would happen, Patchy can be so difficult sometimes. Good for her, I'll have to go tease her about it later." Remilia giggles.
"I don't know if Patchouli actually confessed to Alice or not. Sorry to put a dampener on things." You say.
"Oh well, I can go poke them along in the right direction if not."

You've got her amused again and there's going to be no better time to mention this. She's thinking about romance already, abet other people's.

"Remi." You gulp. "When we kissed, what did that mean?"
Rather than blushing, Remilia just raises her eyebrows at you and tries to suppress a grin.
"Oh? What's that? Could you say that again?" She leans forward out of her chair, towards you, hovering again.
You grin back, playing along.
"I asked, my dear Mistress Remilia, what it meant when we kissed?"
This time she does blush a little.
"I don't know." She says, suddenly serious again. "What did it mean?"

[ ] Nothing.
[ ] "I-I n-need to go check on the cake!"
[ ] Tell her you've fallen for her.
[ ] Tell her it means she's your plaything.
[ ] Tell her it means you're her plaything.
[ ] ___________________________ Fill in the blank.