Listening to Shanodin tell her that she indeed wanted to know how the bag worked, and then listening as she told her that she was alright, Alice smiled and cuddled up to her, nuzzling herself affectionately against Shanodin's side. Then, turning and listening to Celestial as she spoke to her, Alice just sat in Shanodin's lap and listened to the woman speak. After she was done, Alice finally spoke, "Well alright." She took the bag in hand, pointing the mouth of it outward, "I believe I told you already, the bag is sentient, and is able to establish a telepathic connection with the one using it. Giving it commands by thinking them, usually simple words controls it. First, you'll want to control its size to allow it the proper room to perform whatever task you're thinking of, in which case you can give it the order of "grow" or "shrink." Observe." Alice thought the word "grow" and the bag indeed enlarged in size, growing longer, its mouth growing bigger, something that was obviously necessary for larger items to be removed from it.
"Next you'll want to either take in or eject and item from the bag, which can be done in two ways. You can either first think of the item either outside or inside of the bag that you want, and then think the word, "retrieve" in which case it will do this..." Alice again demonstrated, by thinking the specified word, at which point a rope shot out of the bag and picked up a nearby stick, pulling it back into the bag's mouth before then emerging again and handing it to Alice, who them simply dropped it.
"The other manner is what you saw me use to attack Gradius back at the palace, and is performed by giving it either the command of "attract" or "repel." Alice then lifted herself off of Shanodin and demonstrated once again, first making the bag attract objects to it, which it did by creating a very powerful sucking vortex of wind that began pulling in random forest debris into the bag's mouth. She then gave it the command "repel" at which point another vortex was created, only one blowing outward instead of sucking in, at which point all of the debris that had been sucked in by the first vortex was shot out of the bag at a very high velocity.
Alice then turned back to Shanodin, "There is also one final command, "lock" but honestly that one is rather dangerous to use. It causes the bag's mouth to seal up tight and for the bag itself to then take on its full weight. That means that the full weight of everything inside the bag, even including the massive palace, is then applied to it, and the bag will come crashing to the ground with a tremendous amount of force. This makes it virtually impossible to lift and can be used as either a security measure, or an attack by positioning the bag above an opponent when it is used."
Alice then sat back down in Shanodin's lap and handed her the bag, "Here, that's everything on how to use it Mommy."
