[Action | Store]
[In the evening, Kitty is filling up a basket with odds and ends that don't seem to relate to each other. She'll pick up something like an alarm clock and flip it over in her hand inspecting it for a moment before taking it too—anything she thinks might be useful in construction or wiring. Take a little circuitry from Item A, the covering from Item B, the energy source from Item C. Do the hokey pokey, and you turn yourself around and... Well, right now she's just toying with things in her spare time. She'll see where it goes. It's always good to have plans in the works, right?]


[Private | Tyki]
[Later that night...]

Hey. Let's do something. I'm feeling restless.

If anyone would like to join me for dinner, I made too much! [she laughs a little; it has a tendency to happen.] Lloyd won't eat it all, and I'd hate to let it go to waste! I'm in the shelter.

[Cecile has made dinner in the shelter! It looks innocuous enough... And she's made more than enough for one! Would you look some? The smell is a mite strange, but it certainly looks delicious! There's a shrimp pasta, fresh baked bread rolls, and a chocolate cake for dessert!

...of course, the shrimp pasta is filled with strawberry jam and one of the main seasonings is cayenne pepper, the bread has wasabi and soy sauce baked into it, and the chocolate cake has pickled plums strewn casually into the mix.

Eat up!]

[So they'd waited to pull the meeting they'd concluded was probably needed - to be honest, as much as she'd said she was in favor of filling her ersatz roommate in before he got too curious? She still valued her privacy, and every extra person that knew who she was, was another way she could end up dead very fast when they eventually got back home.]

[Still, Conan had a point - they could use all the help they could get in the absence of their usual (if mostly unwitting) support structure of Agasa, Ran, and the others.]

[This is why Saguru would be coming home that evening to a few of the lights on, and two small children that were waiting in stony silence with expressions entirely too serious for eight year olds.]

[Post is basically joint - thread order Hakuba -> Conan -> Haibara]

[ After talking to Euphie, Neil felt drained. Drained and helpless. Useless. Tired.

He sighed, tossing his headset down to the couch before standing and stomping into the kitchen. If this was a proper house in a proper neighborhood, he'd have something strong to drink in the cupboards. Alas, this is still Marina, so he'll have to settle for a bottle of soda.

Now he just needs something to keep him from throwing the bottle violently into the trashcan when he was do--

Too late. ]

Damn it!

[He can't quite say how, but Cross made his way to the door of one Idiot Apprentice without passing out. But he'd really like to get on with it, and so when no one answers his first pounding he gets a tad irritated:]

I know you're in there, brat. Open up! [And yes, this kicking of the door means now!]


((OOC: Backdated to after Euphie's Brain Surgery Part II: The Revenge. Anyone in Allen's residence can tag in if you wanna))