[Kaede's at Shunyo, calling Katie.] [Session Start] * Kaede sure is doing that thing the GM said he was doing. Yup. * Kaede keeps pacing, muttering to himself. "Come on... pick up..." * Kaede starts for a second, hesitating since she answered in English, but then gets over it. His voice sounds a bit rushed. "Katie... you're still in the school, right?" * Kaede cups his hand over the mouthpiece as he talks, pacing and looking around. "Is Yorihisa still there?" * Kaede stops pacing. "He's nearby, isn't he?" * Kaede rubs his forehead. "Listen you've got.." He stops and collects his thoughts again. "He knows something about Reiji. I'm sure of it." He was checking in with the school until the moment that Reiji disappeared. Izumi saw him. Then suddenly he just stopped coming. She couldn't say. She didn't know his name, just his face. Apparently he was hanging out with another student who ended up disappearing as well. She could have met Fuyuko but I can't be sure... Call me back when you can. And be careful. If he's deeply involved in this... * Kaede lets the comment hang, but the silence doesn't sound pleasant. No...nothing's free... * Kaede hangs up on that comment and starts to head back. Don't need to keep them waiting TOO long. * Kaede apparently takes a long while to get back. [Kaede gets back, finding the two just finishing up their cleaning.] Sorry about that... [Soleil glances over her shoulder at Kaede as she puts a box on top of a shelf so high Izumi would have no chance in hell of reaching it without something to stand on. "What was zat all aboot?"] Just something I remembered that I had to do. You two are just about done? "Oui." * Kaede looks at Izumi. "Is there anything else you remember? Anywhere else Fuyuko might have gone?" [Izumi shakes her head helplessly.] * Kaede nods, then writes something down on a piece of paper. "We're going to go looking for her later...if you remember anything else, call me." He tears it off and holds it out for her. [She nods. Soleil steps forward. "You are? Let me come, too."] * Kaede looks at Soleil. "I'd intended to.." He sighs. "I'm just wish I knew where exactly to start looking..." [Soleil nods.] * Kaede starts to think, rubbing his chin. "Hmm...Izumi...Do you know what he wanted?" "Who?" The guy I showed you earlier. The one you said who visited. Did you hear him talking about anything? "Oh. No, I've never talked to him." Didn't think so... * Kaede gets quiet again. [Soleil asks after a minute. "What are you theenking?"] I'm just trying to figure this out... "You zeem to know more zen you let on." * Kaede turns to Izumi. "Well, thanks for the cooperation. I hope we can be of some use." He picks up his kaban and gestures his head to Soleil. "Were you coming?" [Soleil blinks a few times. She grabs her own back and gives a goodbye to Izumi, then hurries after.] * Kaede walks down the hall! [Soleil follows!] * Kaede waits till they're out of earshot of Izumi, a ways down the hall, before he speaks again. "Reiji's been back since then. I have a bad feeling about all this." [Soleil turns her head to Kaede. "'Ee 'as? Where 'as 'ee been?"] * Kaede keeps walking. "Do you want to try checking out that bridge again? It may be a good place to start." [Soleil nods. "I 'ad been theenking zis... But we must be careful. If zose boys are around we could get attacked."] I'm not afraid of being attacked. But we do need to figure out what their involvement in all this is. * Kaede glances back at Soleil. "Do you have transportation?" [She shakes her head. "Normally I take ze trains."] My bike's stranded here... * Kaede sighs and rubs his chin. "I guess we could meet there. Unless you'd ride tandem." [She shakes her head. "I do not know.... You'd get zere faster by yourzelf, but eet would mean you run ze greater risk. Eet ees up to you."] You said you wanted to come. I'm not going without you. She's your friend. I wouldn't do that without you. [She nods. "Zen we take ze train?"] * Kaede shakes his head. "You can go ahead. I'll meet you there." [Soleil nods. "Zo be eet."] * Kaede nods and heads out! [Soleil also heads out!] [At about 4:40 p.m., Kaede arrives on the hill above the bridge. It's raining, hard. Soleil comes by not long after, carrying a cute widdle light- blue umbrella with panda heads on it.] * Kaede doesn't have a cute widdle umbrella. But he does use one. He looks for Soleil. [Soleil approaches. "I remember... zere was someone here before, bezides ze two boys zat attacked us."] * Kaede calls out above the rain. "Do you remember where?" He then glances at the sky. "Perhaps this wasn't the best day to come investigate..." [Soleil walks along the street. "'Ee.... or she... whomever eet was, 'ee was under zee bridge. So I didn't get a good look at 'im."] It's a good place to check. Heck, right now it's even shelter from the rain. * Kaede starts heading in that direction. [Soleil nods, and the two of you head that direction. Beneath the bridge is one of those barrels fire might be burning in, except there's no fire right now. But there's certainly no shadowy figure, either.] * Kaede glances about and then checks the barrel. * Kaede is checking the barrel. [The barrel has a number of burnt newspapers and other papers inside. More than likely some homeless bum lives under this bridge. There's also a few beer bottles lying around.] * Kaede searches among the litter. Just in case. ( Perception roll! ) [Burnt trash... Mostly. Kaede sees a note that looks kind of unusual. It starts with "King".] [Soleil asks, "What are you doing? Looking through zee trash?"] * Kaede stares, glances at Soleil for a moment, and then picks up the note, unfolding it to read it. There's almost always something. ["In zee garbahge?"] Sometimes. Because who in their right mind would look through the garbage? [The note is burnt rather badly. Kaede makes out: "King, I think I may have found what we're looking for. The other Arcana probabl.... *blackened* ..eet me Saturday night, at the usual spot."] [Soleil looks at the note sorta over Kaede's shoulder, but more from the side. "... Eet ees... 'ard to understand."] * Kaede nods and sighs. "We don't know the usual spot. And we don't know if it's even *this* Saturday..." * Kaede glances at Soleil. "Do you think it's here?" [Soleil furrows her brow. "Eet... would seem unlikely. But eet could be... But why would zee note 'ave been burned?"] That's a good question... We could wait here Saturday, or set up something to catch this "King" leaving...just in case. But that's a long-shot... still, it's our only real clue... ["... Today ees Saturday, ees eet not?"] ["We could wait 'ere and see if anyone comes." She frowns and looks around, "Alzough zis ees not ze best weather..."] * Kaede stops. "... you're right.." Check and see if there's any muddy footprints outside. [Meanwhile, Kaede's phone beeps.] [She nods. "I will do eet." She walks off to check.] * Kaede stops and then looks at his phone. [It's a text message from Haruko: We protected Yuki Ijumi from Akari's bullying. No fight, but Jackals may want one later.] [Soleil returns some time later. "Zere is none but ours. I theenk zat if zey are coming today, eet will be later."] Possibly... Should we wait out the storm? It's not a good place to really wait, but I don't want to face the water again. ["I am not sure... if we wait here and zey come, zey will see us. But if we move, we might miss zem."] * Kaede shakes his head. "Let's just wait." [She nods. And wait they do.] [Session End!]