[Coolshaymin]

Rosalina watched Peach as she was memorized by the Music Box. It definitely held some manner of importance in that aspect. It might of been dropped by someone if it was her grandmother's but there was no telling what that could be... Then Daisy acknowledged the strange echo the music box had. That's right, it did seem a little odd...

"You said your grandmother's music box was handmade, right? Perhaps there is a secret storage compartment that it was crafted around. It would explain the odd sound. If there is, there is a good chance something could be stored there. Maybe it could help?" Rosalina suggested.

[Mari]

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Peach seemed to be a bit distressed by Daisy's insinuation that she would destroy the box. She was also further confused by the notion that there would be a hidden compartment in the box. That was ... oddly specific! Regardless, she stood back and watched as Daisy inspected the music box. To her credit, there was something to find. However, it wasn't what either of the two girls had suggested.

There was an inscription carved on the bottom of the box, messy but legible.

"Mushrooms' Blessing

M.T."

However, it didn't seem like the inscription actually meant anything--other than being a glimpse into the mind of Peach's grandmother. The princess leaned in to get a look herself but soon returned to standing upright. "What would she hide in there..?" Peach asked in bemusement. What if it wasn't even her mother that had dropped it? It could have been stolen!

[TartoonHand94]

Daisy continued to search for some hatch of some sort through which the music box could be opened.
"Maybe we could dust it for finger prints." She suggested, further examining the music box and exploring Paula’s suggestion of it having been stolen.
"It’s a good thing I’m wearing gloves." Looking at it from all sides, she noticed there was an inscription obscured by a layer of dust. After carefully dusting the debris away, she read the inscription.
" ‘Mushrooms' Blessing, M.T.’? Who do we know with the initials M T?” Daisy asked the rest. Holding it upside down, she noticed a disconnect looseness between the mushroom base and the cap.
"Hey wait a minute!.." Daisy began to carefully twist the base and the cap opposite of each other. They were screwing apart from each other!
"…Aha!” She successfully separated the top and the bottom of the music box. ”Like a fresh jar of protein!”

In the cap of the music box was the musical mechanisms themselves. The gears, the cylinder, the bells and the metal comb. But in the base was a cylinder that was deeper than it appeared from the outside.
”Now what do we have here…” Daisy peeked inside the cylinder with eyes.

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Paula watched as there was something In the music box, an engraving that said's. "Mushroom's Blessing." along with another word that said's. "MT." Peach and Daisy were confused over what It meant...While Paula quickly understood what It meant. "Maybe It stands for a mountain, usually they shorten It to MT, It must be a clue to there location Peach, maybe somewhere on a mountain?" Paula said to Peach as Daisy examined the box further. "I just wondered how long this box was here though." Paula said as she watched Daisy.

Who managed to open the box further.

"What else did you find Daisy?"

[Coolshaymin]

"I do not know what she would hide. It would probably be something important that was cherished though. Few would think to look for it," Rosalina answered Peach's question. Then Paula suggested something rather... Questionable. "Young Paula, that could be the case if it was dotted only after the T. However, it is dotted after the M and the T so it is stands for assumingly two words. Possibly a name. Could be something else. Special One, do you have any idea who or what the M.T. could refer to?" Rosalina suggested while Daisy investigated the inner workings of the Music Box.

[Mari]

Peach watched in horror as Daisy pried apart the old, somewhat fragile wood. She could just feel her heart drop as the other woman destroyed a precious memento in front of her. One could just see the distress wash over her, her mouth hanging slightly agape in silent shock as she watched Daisy scour the insides of the box. Unfortunately for Daisy, it seemed she had made a poor choice in choosing to pursue this route of exploration. Not only had she hurt Peach's feelings by being so careless, but it had been all for naught. No such clue was to be found inside the box.

" . . . Those are my grandmother's initials." Peach ever so softly explained, deflating slightly at the sight of the damaged music box. It seemed it hadn't actually been intended to come apart like that. She glanced away.

[TartoonHand94]

Daisy peeked inside the cylinder with eyes glistening with curiosity. This twinkle of curiosity dulled into a glare of disappointment, as nothing was to be found. Secret prizes and plot coupons would be hidden in artifacts like these all the time. This just wasn’t one of those artifacts.
"…Nope, another dead end.” Daisy sighed in disappointment.
"…It’s as empty… as M. T. Hey I made a funny! Get it Peach? M…" Daisy looked up from the music box at a distressed Peach glancing away.

"…T." Daisy could tell immediately from the look on Peach’s face that she messed up bad. Looking back down in the disassembled music box in her hands she immediately knew how.

"…Wait Peach! I didn’t mean to!” She hastily began to protest and apologize.
“I can fix this! I promise!” She bargained desperate to make it up to her.
"Here, I’ll just screw this back in…” Daisy carefully aligned the cylinder and quickly but carefully screwed the cap back onto the mushroom base where it belonged.
"One, two, three, good as new!” She sheepishly showed it off to cheer Peach up. She even turned the music back on to prove it.

“Um... Here. This is yours.” Daisy graciously handed the repaired music box back to Peach.
“I’m sorry I dismantled it.” She then took Peach’s hands and folded them around the music box. She then looked into Peach’s wet eyes with eyes of sincerity, and delivered the best consolation she could muster.
“Look at it this way: We haven’t found your parents yet, but we did find your grand mothers’ music box. We found something that brings back her memory and keeps her closer. If you ask me, that a pretty good start!” She winked optimistically. “ 'Sure beats going home empty handed.”

“I guess the thing to do now is keep going the way we were going.” Daisy turned to Paula and Rosalina, readdressing them as part of the scene.
“Now which way were we going?” Embarrassing as it may be, Daisy got so wrapped up in leaf diving and later music box exploration that she had briefly lost her sense of direction.

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Paula turned to Rosalina, who said that the Mountain guess was probably the wrong guess and said that It meant for a name, she wondered If Paula knew anything about the initials. "Judging by the fact that Peach and her relatives are from the Mushroom Kingdom, I'm going to guess that the M stand's for mushroom." Paula said to Rosalina...As she quickly turned to see Daisy basically break the Music Box due to her investigative nature.

Paula watched silently as Daisy tried to give Peach the now broken music box, who said that the MT initials stood for her grandmothers name. Paula tried to think something and soon questioned Peach.

"Do you remember the name of your grandmother Peach?"

[Coolshaymin]

Rosalina looked at Paula for a second as she gave her answer... The M stood for Mushroom?... She clearly did not understand how Toad names usually worked... She doubted Peach's Grandma was called Mushroom T. She ignored it and kept her composure though as she turned to Peach. "Peach, if you experience any issues with it I think I can repair it. I am fairly good with mechanical building and carpentry. It should not be a problem at all. Well, if Daisy did not repair it enough," Rosalina offered, not to put Daisy down. She did call Peach by her name to try and avoid upsetting Daisy further.

"For now though, she should try to find more clues. Considering the Music Box is here, there could be something else they dropped. That would be the best way to find out more," Rosalina suggested. She did not mention the fact it could of been stolen. Though, if it was just dropped, there had to be a reason they could not find it again or go back for it. That did give the suggestion there was more.

[Mari]

Unfortunately for Daisy, the 'head' of the music box didn't seem to want to stay in place now. It threatened to come off if it weren't held upright, something that Peach quickly discovered as she accepted the memento and inspected it by turning it over in her hands. The princess took a deep breath. It didn't seem like they'd be able to fix the box, at least not right here without any woodworking tools on hand. Peach turned the box upright and gently wound it a little, testing to see if it would still play. Thankfully, none of the music box's parts were grounded on the cap and it played the same as it had before, a mysterious echo resounding over the woods from its song. "That's alright, Daisy. We can try and fix this once we get back to the castle." Peach replied, offering Daisy a smile. It was hard to stay sad, looking into those eyes.

"Well, yes... I just called her Gramma Toadstool, though~" Peach replied, snickering slightly in fond memory. "And... I think I might know where to go." Peach mused aloud, moving over to Rosalina and winding the music box up quite hard as she moved. It seemed she wanted it to play for a while. She then gently handed the box to her special one, silently asking her to take it from her as she continued to talk.

"It's a long shot, but maybe... Maybe it's the song we have to follow." Peach offered, turning and gesturing off into the distance. Her finger carefully tracked the direction of the echoes, pointing in the general direction her ears interpreted them as coming from. They had no direction currently, and so attempting to follow the echoes to their source wouldn't be any more harmful than wandering aimlessly, right? It was worth a try, anyway.

[TartoonHand94]

To say Daisy was embarrassed would be an understatement.
"Hey all I did was unscrew the cap!" Daisy pouted at Rosalina in her defense. "It’s not like I Tore it off or something…"
Daisy watched nervously as Peach inspected the music box, hoping she’d prove her right. She was half wrong as the lid was refusing to stay up right anymore. But she was half right that the music still played at least.
Daisy tried to return a sheepish grin for the noise the music box still managed to make. She noticed Peach was winding the music box up for different reasons. She was…following the echoes the song was creating in the forest?
“Wait so…we were supposed to follow the echoes from the Outside of the music box? Why didn’t I think of that. Daisy face palmed. Giving it more thought, she wiped her hand down and off her face.
"This is going to be another one of those “Listen with your heart” adventures, isn’t it?" She asked with a knowing shake of the head. She figured it was time to take a step back and let someone else handle the investigation. Magic like this was better beheld than understood. Whatever was to come, she was sure it was going to be a spectacle to both the eyes and ears.

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Paula watched as Peach took over the music box and managed to figure out the clue behind the box, the echo's, the echos of the music box was the key to finding Peach's relatives...And maybe her grandmother who was called Gramma Toadstool for short as Peach tried to follow the echo's of the song while the group began to follow. "Oh, I was almost right." Paula said as she began to follow Peach while trying to listen to the song.

While Daisy wondered If this mission was going to be similar to a follow your heart type of adventure, which Paula groaned and thought to herself.

"I never liked those kinds of adventures, there too cheesy, maybe It'll be different or a spin on the cliche."

[Coolshaymin]

Why did she not notice the echo was in the forest? It seems so obvious in hindsight...  "I am not sure where it would lead... But it's better than wandering aimlessly. Then it's settled. Let's find the source," Rosalina agreed. She accepted the music box to carry until they find the source of the sound.

[Mari]

Peach gave Daisy a rather bemused look in response to her display of genre savviness. "Listen to your... heart? ...Did you ever stop~?" Peach asked, lolling her head slightly at Daisy. Every adventure was a listen to your heart adventure with Princess Peach. With that bite of knowledge having been passed along, as well as the music box itself, Peach could dedicate her attention fully to tracking the direction the echo was coming from. Right now it sounded vaguely like it was coming from their east. A precise direction was difficult, but this would do for now. She stepped forward and began leading the way. "I wonder what's making that echo..." Peach mused aloud, her gaze locked on the horizon.

[TartoonHand94]

"You were righter than some of us today." Daisy wistfully quipped at Paula’s intuition.

"Not that there’s anything wrong with listening with your heart.~" Daisy perked sheepishly at Peach’s bemused glare.
It was not as if these sort of adventures ever bored Daisy in the slightest. To do and see things she could only ever dream about in her day to day life in Sarassaland. To escape the drudgery of her day to day princess duties in her cultural quilt of a kingdom, true whimsy and mystique were a rarity for her.
Any adventure with Peach, Rosalina and Paula was a lucid dream she wouldn’t want to wake up from.

Daisy let Peach, Rosalina and Paula pass in front of her and trailed behind them.
She tried to hush as still as possible and listen. She made an effort to listen to her heart as well as her ears, after all, who knows what works on an adventure with Princess Peach.