[That's a bet Natsuno would win, for better or worse; indeed, despite its connotations, Jade wouldn't be able to quite push himself into actually casting the doll into the sea in the end. It might not be a memento in the sort of sense Natsuno's assuming, but...all the same. There's a lot of weight on this thing, for better or worse.

It's a reminder in other ways, and regardless of the why's or how's of its arrival...all the same....there's something to be acknowledged here. Something a dip in the sea certainly won't fix, in the end.

--Though he's still pretty on the verge with the deck brush, all told.]

Well, somebody's about to be quite thoroughly disappointed, if such expectations really are being held somewhere. I put my deck scrubbing days quite behind me awhile ago now, to say the least. [Something of an airy cheer properly filtering back into Jade's tone, now, as he takes the box and its doll between his hands and rises from the couch. Time to take this over to a dresser drawer and promptly stick it in there, towards the back...] It would be quite interesting if the ghosts actually took it up, wouldn't it? Perhaps I'll run a few tests, at the very least. Even the most inane of things can contribute to science, after all...