[Day: Tuesday, March 30th. Time: 5:00 p.m.] [Weather: Chilly, Cloudy, Chance of rain later on.] [You're cramped in the stolen car, almost back at Sakuragaoka. Taki elected to go home early, the easy way. The rest of you have a roll of film to develop.] [Session Start!] * Satoshi sits in the passenger seat again, trying to be as nonchalant about the whole thing as he can possibly be. Again. * Katie is in the backseat, breathing easier now that Taki isn't on her lap or something. She seems absorbed in looking at the camera she got from Arisu. * Haruko keeping up her nice cautious driving, she is grinning though. [Sakuragaoka comes into view.] * Haruko scans ahead looking for observers, she adopts a slightly puzzled expression with a frown as it starts raining lightly, looks like there may be fog. "If it looks like we might be observed coming in, I'll find a spot to let you guys out first, and maybe switch to my miko outfit and leave the rest of my stuff with you." * Katie glances up and starts actively paying attention to whatever's going on around the car. * Satoshi nods. "All right." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 10. [There doesn't seem to be many people around; you spot a few people here and there, but for the most part everyone's gone home.] * Haruko keeps the puzzled expression and the rain builds up a nice bank of mist around the space she got the car from. "All clear Katie?" (Is it?) ( Yeah ) Yeah, it's fine. * Haruko pulls into the spot, turning the radio back on as she found it as she does so. She then pets the dashboard one last time while saying quietly, "Thank you. I appreciate this and I'll be sure tomorrow to give you a nice wax and tune-up. I'm sure Ebina-sensei won't object. * Satoshi waits for the car to talk back. Why not? * Katie hopes it doesn't, because then she *knows* she's crazy. * Haruko nods at nothing in particular. "Bye, and thanks again, this was fun." She then nods to the rest, does any last minute cleanup work, and carefully heads out into the mist. "Remember to lock the doors." * Satoshi makes sure he has his gloves on, gets out, locks the door, and waits for Katie. (Last minute cleanup did include turning off the engine and such. Just to be perfectly clear. :P) (That's a very important point. Yes.) * Katie opens the door with her gloved hands and climbs out of the car, camera with her. She shuts it. Yay! (Did you lock it?) * Haruko quickly checks that all the doors are locked, fixing if necessary. She then scurries away under cover of mist. * Katie follows, not glancing around much more than normal. * Satoshi heads back towards the school, following Katie. [You arrive at the school! ... Now what?] So, is there a darkroom or someplace we can get that film developed? * Haruko is still looking far too pleased with herself. "Not sure. And I'll take the gloves if you don't think you'll need them today for any reason Katie." * Katie glances around, absently handing Haruko the gloves. "There should be a photography club or something... we can ask Chikako." She heads in. Yeah, she'd definitely know. * Satoshi proceeds. * Haruko reclaims them and puts them away. She also sets about fixing her hair while following Katie. "Works for me. We should get Yushiro's address while we're at it. And Arisu's backup notes." Haruko frowns. "But she probably keeps those at home or something." * Katie heads towards the newspaper office. "Yeah." * Satoshi sorta nods. He doesn't look terribly happy about the idea of going to visit Yushiro. [You head towards the newspaper office. On the way up the stairs, you run into Ken!] (Literally or figuratively? ;P) ( Figuratively. ) * Haruko nods absentmindedly to him and gets an expression of faint amusement. * Katie would nod, but instead she says, "Hi Ken." * Satoshi nods to him. Well, if it isn't the bird-watcher. Get bored with that? * Katie stops and looks at him. Sort of. "No, but I'm doing something else right now. It happens. Tired of playing soccer?" Practice is over. It's late. * Haruko just sits back and watches with amusement. * Katie tilts her head. "So you want to waste time with me, huh?" * Haruko grins a bit at that. Nah, I'm on my way home. So's everyone but the geeks. Right. And you're going home very fast. I told you soccer practice just finished. * Katie smiles faintly. "And you're going home very fast." She glances down at Ken's feet which, incidentally, stopped. * Ken goes down the stairs. "Whatever. I can do what I want. Say hello to the dumb reporter chick who thinks she can speak English for me. * Katie rolls her eyes. She hesitates, then hands Satoshi the camera. "Hold this. I'll catch up in a second." Sure thing. * Katie takes a breath and follows Ken down the stairs. * Haruko waves to Ken's back and then looks to Satoshi with a grin. * Satoshi just shakes his head, but he's smiling a little. * Haruko comments quietly, but doubtless not so quietly that Katie can't hear. "I must admit Ken's manner of flirting seems rather impractical, but it's fun to watch." Seems like he's not so bad after all. * Haruko nods. "There's a real difference between immature and malicious." And we've experienced enough of the second. The first just doesn't seem like much anymore. Nope, that's part of why I'm working on Hirokazu. Might be a lost cause until his hormone levels drop some and needs to learn about limits, but could be an alright guy. And there are few enough of those among us. So is Hirokazu a project like one of your vehicles? * Haruko looks thoughtful for a moment. "Naw, guys are much harder to fix up, different sorta thing, more like animal training." * Satoshi actually laughs. "Well, I guess that's a step up from being a machine." * Haruko tilts her head a little. "You think?" She then grins, but it rapidly changes into a frown. Yeah. What's wrong? ( He's high maintenance. ) * Haruko bites her lip for a moment. "With what happened to Arisu, and what we have to do with Arisu, and what I did to get us there, I..." You're worried because you broke your promise about taking cars? * Haruko shakes her head. "This was for a good reason, I'm just afraid..." Afraid of what? That I'll want to do it again tonight. * Haruko looks down. (Cars are drugs, and Haruko is addicted!) Yeah. I know what you mean. It's been a while since I had to really worry about stuff like that, but back when I was competing, occasionally I'd do something I hadn't been able to in a while, and that I shouldn't have, but I really enjoyed. I think my mom yelled at me a lot, though. * Satoshi smiles a little. "Would it help if I called you tonight and lectured you?" * Haruko nods and looks somewhat relieved. "So you know what it's like. Uh.." * Haruko thinks and then smiles a little. "I'd appreciate that." It's a deal, then. Any particular time? * Haruko thinks. "Eleven fifteen maybe?" She looks down for a moment and bats at a bang. "That's not too late is it? My parents are safely asleep by then and I have my homework done, so it'd help to keep me from being, uh, distracted." I usually go to sleep around eleven, so maybe a bit before then? * Haruko nods and grins a little. "Just be sure to lecture me well." You got it. So, did Katie mean for us to wait here for her, or to start going to the newspaper office without her and she'd catch up to us there? ( WAIT THERE @_@ ) (Thank you, voice from the sky!) * Haruko thinks and gets out her phone. She sends a quick message to Chikako. Coming by. Have film to develop re: Arisu. Send msg if Katie already there. * Haruko looks to Satoshi. "That should cover it. Chikako will message me if Katie gets there first." Good. So... um. I don't think I asked how things went with you and Ryuji the other day, did I? Or did you say something and I just forgot it? There's so much stuff to remember lately that I think I forget half of it. * Haruko smiles. "It went rather well. He's still figuring out how he feels, but if he asks me again I'm sure I can trust it's because he's actually interested." I'm glad that it went well, and I hope things work out between you two. You seem to like him a lot. Thanks. I do. So how are you and Taki doing? Pretty well, I guess. We had dinner that one time, after you left, and that went well, but we've just been so busy with things since... I've been holding off until things calm down a little, but I'm finding that things *never* calm down. So maybe I should just bite the bullet and just ask her out. * Haruko nods. "I think you're right. Hopefully things will calm someday, but for now if we're going to be in relationships, they need to work under duress." Stress testing. That sounds vaguely mechanical again. * Haruko grins. "These things would be easier if people were just practical about them instead of letting it all get wrapped up in romantic ideals." People aren't machines, though. They have feelings. Well, maybe your machines have feelings, too. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 7. * Haruko smiles a little. "The trouble is people do silly things that mean they'll can get much more hurt." Haruko then sighs slightly and looks up at Satoshi with a fairly serious expression. "Taki's the sort likely to get caught up in that I think." I wouldn't ever try to hurt her. I guess it could happen, but... * Haruko giggles slightly. "No, that's not it, of course you wouldn't, I don't think you'd even be capable of it." She then looks a bit more serious again. "Just keep your eyes open, Taki I think is willing to delude herself at times, it'll get her hurt in the end I'm afraid." * Satoshi sighs quietly. "Yeah, that I can see. We should probably talk about things at some point, if we're going to possibly get somewhat serious." He half- smiles. "Stress testing." * Haruko nods and pats Satoshi on the back. "Good man." She then grins. "And hopefully that little anti-romantic lecture will have you properly in the mood to keep me honest tonight." Right. We'll keep each other focused. * Haruko sighs a little. "Sometimes I wish Taki would talk to me about serious stuff, but I've tried to tell her that I'm here if she wants to." She smiles faintly. "And it's not as if I'm subtle. But ultimately it's up to her, and I'll feel a lot better if she's definately talking ot you." No offense, but, yeah, subtle is not really you. And if she feels like talking about things, we'll talk. I won't try to push too hard. But I would like to know some things for sure at some point. * Satoshi chuckles. "And maybe I can be more vague, but then again, maybe not." * Haruko nods and the laughs herself a bit. * Haruko then looks down the direction Katie went. "Think we should check on them? I think Katie would want this to be private." She grins. "And I don't want to walk in on them making out or something." * Satoshi would spittake, had he been drinking something. "Uh. Let's just leave them alone for now." * Haruko nods. "Works for me. So, want some light conversation or more heavy?" Did you have something else on your mind? 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 12, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "The gods giveth, and the gods taketh away. This time, they taketh away." I think Takeuchi-san's traumitized or something. He's actually been nicer than usual to me lately, and I'm not complaining about that, but he's also been sporatic and not all there. Like when Katie was getting his attention earlier. (I love that. "Kaede must be traumitized. He's being nice to me.") ("Kaede must be traumatized. He just critfailed.") (If he's actively nice and respectful she'll assume he's !Kaede and hit him with a tire iron.) Wait, wait... he's traumatized because he's being nice to you? (Actually, that's the sad thing. That crit failure's a BLESSING compared to the rest of this. >.> I'll kill you, Brett.) ( Will you ever <.< ) * Haruko shakes her head. "No, the nice thing just has me puzzled. He's traumatized because it takes fifteen seconds to get his attention in an emergency and he's just not been effective in the way he used to be." (No. But you're definitely twisted. :P) You count seconds? ...you count seconds. Okay. What exactly do you mean by effective? He's left Katie in a lurch twice now, when he went wandering in the half-field and that time he got the call. Also when we were in Tokyo Tower he was argumentative to that psycho. I mean used to be I often disagreed wih what he did, but he seemed to have a reason. Wandering in the half-field... do you think something happened to him there? I mean, you guys seemed to come out of it okay, and Taki got herself out, but has he been acting strangely *since* then? Or is this just everything building up and finally wearing him down? * Haruko scratches her head. "Could be something happened, he was worse after, could be everything. I mean Nanami thinks he's crazy and he's acting as a protector for Katie and that's not easy. But I really don't know. I just see the symptons." ( Just so you guys know.... The other channels are really bizarre @_@ ) ( Heh. ) What we've been through is enough to drive anyone crazy. But I'll keep an eye out for him as best I can. I did call him the other day and tried to talk about him and Katie, but I'm not sure how much good it did. (It's the Arcana Dating Service!) (Hey, Haruko and Satoshi are having a long, half-serious, half- humorous conversation.) (Until recently, the chances of that happening were pretty small. ^_~) * Haruko gets a quick impressed look. "He might appreciate that you tried. He seems to like and respect you." Really? Well, I've got a lot of respect for him, so... who knows. It was definitely worth trying. * Haruko leans back against the wall. "Maybe he needs to just spend more time at the shop. We can call him and port over if we need him. He can look after Katie during the school day and we can do it afterwards. Might take some of the pressure off." Yeah. It's not fair to give him all the responsibilities... and it seems like we were doing it without even realizing it. But ask Taki before you promise to port around. * Haruko looks down for a moment in silence, after a few seconds she speaks again. "I guess we were. Asking for help really isn't his style, I tried to give him room and not get in his way when looking after Katie, but maybe that put to much on his shoulders." * Haruko nods again with a wry smile. "Yeah, you're right. I kinda think of her as my personal non-automotive rapid transportation solution, I mean technically she's my knight and all, but it isn't really my place to give her orders." With Kaede, it's hard, because I don't want to push him too much. And Taki's not a vehicle either, you know. She'll probably say yes, but you should at least ask first. And do you really believe in that rank stuff? * Haruko shakes her head. "I don't. I mean it's fun to be a Queen and all but it's not like I earned it. Nor would I take orders from the King of Cups, whoever he or she is. It's just kinda fun to have a knight y'know." You have fun with this, don't you? I guess it's a good thing I don't believe in rank. Otherwise, maybe I would've sworn fealty to Kyon when I thought I was the Ace, and now where would I be? * Haruko then levels her expression. "I tried pushing him too much once. Really didn't work out. Now I try just not to deal with him at all, that's going pretty well." (The swearing fealty to Kyon thing? Satoshi joked about that in one of the first sessions he was ever in. So. ^_~) * Satoshi frowns slightly. "Well, I guess that's one way of doing it. It keeps you guys from arguing, if nothing else." * Haruko looks rather sheepish for a few seconds, starting when Satoshi mentions swaring fealty, and then smiles, still sheepish. "Maybe a little fun. Our powers have both curses and blessings, and there's no reason we shouldn't appreciate the latter. And maybe if I was a stronger person I'd still try to be there for him, never give up and all that, but I just don't like him and I don't think that's going to change." Honestly, I have yet to figure out a blessing with mine. And, well... I'm not entirely sure what to say about you and Kaede, except that I guess it's good that you're not forcing yourself on him. It'd be nice if you didn't dislike him, but people are... well, people. I guess I'm finally accepting that there's not necessarily something wrong with you if someone disagrees with you or even dislikes you. * Haruko looks thoughtful for a moment. "I guess your abilities mostly just help you fix the curses. I mean someday you may be able to save someone stuck under an I-beam, but that hasn't happened yet. And yeah, I don't think Takeuchi-san is a bad person, our styles just clash, a whole lot." (I liked the song before Reservoir Dogs. :P) (Well, before I saw the movie. Maybe before the movie was made) Like oil and water, I think the saying goes? And I did get Kaede out from under an elevator once. Of course, it was sort of my fault that we got trapped under it, so. * Katie comes walking back up the stairs. Her eyes are pink and face tear- streaked, but she doesn't look upset at all. Amused, really. * Satoshi looks at her and blinks. "Katie? Are you all right? What happened?" * Haruko nods. "Yeah, that about sums it up." She then looks down at Katie with a slight smile. "Guess they weren't making out after all." * Katie says, ever so casually, "Turns out Ken had sex with the head cheerleader." * Satoshi makes an interesting sound, like he wants to start laughing but is trying to prevent himself from doing so. His face gets red, which may or may not have to do with Katie's news or the fact that he's probably trying not to laugh. * Katie grins at Satoshi's reaction and snatches Arisu's camera in his moment of weakness. * Haruko giggles. "Well, I'm sure she'd have some nice rallying cry ready if he ran into any trouble during the process." Oh God, don't make me think of something like that. * Haruko grins at Katie. "Only fair. You're the one who foisted the image of Ken having sex on us." * Satoshi has the camera snatched from him, and doesn't mind, because he's now actually giving in and cracking up. * Katie sticks her tongue out at Haruko. * Haruko keeps grinning and gets walking to Chikako's office, not in any great hurry. * Katie does, too! That's where they were heading. ( My poor good clean game ;_; ) * Satoshi wipes his eyes and tries to regain some of his composure. His face is still a little red. (It took us 118 sessions. ^_~) (They're high schoolers.) ( /me coughs. "Akemi. Sorry, had to clear my throat.") (Besides, Haruko's the one running around naked!) [You reach the office, where Chikako lying in her chair, collapsed on her desk.] * Katie starts, then rushes over, all mirth gone. "Chikako?" She shakes her by the shoulder. "Chikako!" What happened? Is she hurt or did she just fall asleep? * Haruko scurries up and looks her over. (She's got a robe now!) * Chikako is shook. She lifts her head and blinks. "... Cool.... Huh? What?" Whew. * Haruko smiles. Eep! I fell asleep! That's not cool! I have to finish editing tomorrow's paper! (Chikako's so cute. ^_^) * Chikako picks up a paper on her desk and starts furiously reading. (She is.) * Katie lets out a breath of relief. "You shouldn't push yourself like that." * Haruko steps back and lets Katie take charge. Oh, I'm cool. I'll make it up over the weekend. Okay, if you're sure. Um. We got Arisu's camera, and she said it's okay for us to develop her pictures. There's a photo club, right? * Chikako blinks twice, then looks up. "Hey, is Arisu cool? What happened?" We don't know. She got beaten up and doesn't remember it. She'll be okay, though. Oh. That's cool. We think we might know who did it, and maybe there's a clue in the film. Oh. * Haruko nods. "Also she doesn't happen to keep her backup notes or laptop around here does she? She mentioned she kept some but didn't have them with her." Nope! I checked her desk, remember? It's messy, but nothing cool there." Oh! Right, sorry. Well, maybe she keeps them at home. Hopefully the film we be enough. * Chikako nods. "The Photo room is next door. They're cool; we use their dark room for our pictures." * Katie nods and smiles. "Thanks. You want to help develop them?" I'm... kind of bad in dark rooms. I mean, I know how, but... Sure! It's cool. * Katie looks relieved. "Thanks." Just let me finish this article. * Chikako edits! Sure. Want us to stick around and help, too? * Haruko nods. "Cool. Oh, and can you get the address or the class schedule of a student? Ideally in a way that isn't tracable back to you? Ummmmmm.... * Haruko then looks to Katie and nods. "We're here if you want us." * Katie looks at Satoshi, then Haruko. "If you want to. Sure." It's cool, I can do that. Yushiro Kageri And you're sure it wouldn't be tracable back to you? We could do it ourselves. ::she looks down:: Arisu might have gotten into trouble because she looked into him for me. * Katie nods. I dunno! * Haruko bites her lip. "We should handle it then, but thanks." We can figure something out. * Haruko nods. It's cool. Hey! You're not gonna get yourselves hurt, are you? No, we'll be careful. I hope not. * Haruko nods. * Chikako nods. "Cool." * Katie sits, pulls out her camera, and snaps a shot of Chikako editing. * Chikako blinks and looks at Katie confusedly. * Katie smiles. "Just taking some pictures." * Haruko grins a little. "I forget, are we getting copies of these?" Maybe. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with them yet. * Haruko nods. "That's fair." I'd like to see them sometime, though. You will. Me too! * Katie giggles. Okay, okay. You'll all see the pictures. Cool. Yay! * Satoshi smiles. "Thanks." * Chikako finishes editing. "Cool. Done!" * Katie smiles. "Cool." She gets to her feet. Let's go get that film developed, then. * Chikako nods and gets up. * Haruko smiles slightly and babbles as they go. "Never actually seen it done, except in movies where they had some dramatic surprise. I guess it wouldn't be the same if they just went to the one hour photo or something and then looked through the pictures while dramatic music played afterwards." * Katie walks there, too, and listens to Haruko's babble. "Sure?" I've never really thought about that. Uhhhhh... * Chikako opens the door to the photoclub and points at a room in the back. "There it is." * Katie peeks in. Then enters... the photoclub room! (Dun dun dun!) (AIEEEE!) * Satoshi follows! Well, it'd be different. Maybe it'd be cool in some sort of arty way. Although I think in arty moves they just drive around and don't have car chases and that sorta takes the fun out of things. ::she goes in:: * Chikako heads towards a room in the back and flips on the light. It's low, and red. * Satoshi looks at Katie. "Are you going to be okay?" * Katie peeks into the back. "I- I've done it before-" She swallows and forces herself to go in. * Satoshi stays with her. * Haruko stands by Katie and holds out her hand towards one of Katie's. "You don't have to, but we'll be with you if you come." It's ok! See? It's red! Red is so cool. Maybe I'll- maybe- okay. It's red. But the door. We'll have to close the door. * Chikako nods. "The photos won't be cool if the door's open. I'll be right here with you. You can grab my arm or something if it makes you feel better. You won't hurt me, and I don't mind. * Haruko closes the door and then stands by Katie again. Hand still out if she wants it. "Me too." * Katie lets the door shut. She looks at it. "Okay. Okay..." She gives Chikako the camera. Her hands are shaking. Uhh... It's cool if you wanna wait outside. I- maybe I should. I might- It's up to you. * Haruko nods. "One of us could even wait with you if you want. We're here for you either way." * Katie swallows, looks torn, but fear wins. "I'll be outside." She scambles to leave. I'll go with you. * Haruko opens the door again. Okay. Make sure the photos come out cool, Chikako. * Katie is out of there. Freedom! * Satoshi heads out after her. * Haruko closes the door once they're out. * Katie takes deep breaths once they're out, taking the moment to lean against the wall nearby and slide to the floor. * Chikako develops photos! It takes some time, but since it's late... it gets done! (Wahoo!) * Satoshi sits down next to her. He doesn't say anything, but just watches her with concern. * Haruko watches with a fair amount of interest. Slightly ill at ease because of the lack of dramatic music. * Chikako comes out. "Photos! They're so cool! Da-da-da-daaaa!" (There! Dramatic music!) * Katie looks up and laughs. "You're done?" She gets to her feet and, yes, she's looking much better. * Haruko comes out with her and smiles. * Satoshi stands up as well, looking relieved. * Chikako nodnods. Cool. * Katie goes to look. Yay! * Chikako has photos! A lot. * Katie goes through them. "Thanks a lot, Chikako. If it were just me, um..." She smiles sheepishly. "They wouldn't have gotten done." It's cool! * Haruko looks as them as Katie goes through. * Satoshi helps sort through photos. [Some of the photos strange, like the picture of the front right tire of a car. You can't imagine why Arisu would take these, unless she had a story to follow them up with.] (I don't know; Haruko would probably take photos of the front right tire of a car.) ( Naw, that'd be silly. Back right, sure, but front? (>.>) * Katie blinks upon coming to that one. "O-kay." [Some have people in them. One seems to be on Tokyo Tower; there's a big, spikey-haired man partially cut off on one side. Another is a picture of Remi Mizuki in the Kyudo club, lining up a shot. Two more are of Tempura Guy and Okonomiyaki Guy.] * Haruko comments when Katie blinks. "Probably taking a picture of a tire tread so she can track the movements of a car or something." [Then there's a picture of Soleil Cardinaux. It's from the side. She's outside, sitting on a bench near what's probably a sports field and staring at a text book, brow furrowed in confusion.] Could be. Huh, it's Soleil. * Katie tries to get a look at the text, just out of curiosity. [Katie can't make it out at all; the photo was taken too far away.] ('How to serve man') (Hee.) ( "How to beat your sisters at Video Games" ) [There's another photo, of Fuyuko. Izumi's there too, apparently, although kind of cut off. Fuyuko is rubbing her head and wincing, and a volley ball is still in the air; it's a pretty good shot, if you know anything about photography.] That's a nice picture. Well, if they found her after volley ball practice, I guess Arisu had been there for a while. Or maybe Soleil just reads at practice. * Katie nods appreciatively. "Yeah. She's taking a lot of pictures here." * Haruko nods. [The next photo, Fukuyo is sitting on the ground with Izumi near her. A bunch of other girls are standing somewhere in the back, talking.] * Chikako nods. "She's cool like that." Ouch. * Haruko nods at the next picture of Fukuyo. "Yeah. Well, guess my assumption that she was there to research Fukuyo was right." Haruko shrugs. "Unless she was checking out Izumi or Soleil or something, but that doesn't seem likely." [The next photo looks like it was taken from the same spot, but in a completely different direction, towards the school. There's a boy there in a Sakuragaoka uniform.] Here. Here we go. * Katie holds the picture to the light, getting a good look at the boy, then sets it aside. * Satoshi pays closer attention. [The next photo has Yushiro walking across the field back towards the school, with his arm around Fuyuko's shoulders.] * Katie eyes that. "Okay..." Sets that aside, too. * Haruko nods. "Creepy..." He is. Very. [The next photo is taken through a doorway, with Yushiro talking to someone (probably Fuyuko behind the wall).] * Katie murmurs, "" Sets that aside. Because you know something's coming? * Katie nods. And you can't look away. * Haruko nods and looks down some. "I shouldn't have asked her to help. I knew he was dangerous." [The next one is unusual: It was taken low to the ground; looks to be still inside the school. There's a woman walking away from the camera, but the shot only shows her legs. She's wearing high-heals and a reddish-brown skirt.] * Katie frowns. "Her. Okay." [That's all of them!] * Haruko nods. "Unless she's the one setting all this up, I think we can be pretty sure." She looks to Satoshi. "And if you're still willing, we can be completely sure." * Satoshi frowns severely at the last picture. Without looking up, he says, "Yeah, I think I'm willing to make sure." Then that's it. I think Arisu will really want copies of these. * Katie looks up at Chikako. It's cool. I can do that. * Katie smiles and suddenly hugs her best friend. "I think we can stop the attacks. I hope." Cool. * Haruko clenches a fist some. "We will." Definitely. Yeah. * Katie lets go and takes a breath. "We will." [Session End!]