[Date: Saturday, February 28. Time: 8:30 PM.] [Kyon arrives home, wearing his regular jacket and dark blue jeans, and carrying his sports bag. It's a quiet evening outside... but what about inside?] [Session start!] * Kyon opens the door and reflexively calls out "Tadaima" as soon as he sees that there are lights on here. * Katie looks up when Kyon comes in. She's seated at the kotatsu in front of her open laptop, which is plugged in. Also on the kotatsu: her sketchbook, an open notebook with notes, an empty plate, and a couple of mugs. Katie, herself, is still in her sleep shirt, her hair mussed, and... did she even bathe today? "Kyon! Where did we go for dinner... December? Your editor called about a Christmas reading and I was really upset." * Kyon blinks once, and sets about taking off his shoes. "Cicada. In Aoyama. * Katie nods, and she tugs at her notebook, writing something down. * Kyon drops his shoes, and edges up into the apartment, picking up his bag again. "What's going on? You stay home today?" * Katie looks back at her laptop screen, flipping through something, and says, "Yeah, Kaede sent me some files and I've been looking some stuff up. Have you checked your e-mail? I need to pee." * Kyon nods curtly, and smirks. "Do that while I'm reading. I'll boot up the computer." Okay, good. * Katie hops to her feet and tugs down her shirt before she heads for the toilet. No, she's not wearing slippers. * Kyon pads the rest of the way into the room, and drops his bag by the computer, leaning down to start it up, and then turning to survey the table and what that's looking like in more detail as he waits for that. [Katie's laptop has a browser window open with what may be over a dozen tabs, as well as a media player and a number of additional, minimized files. The sketchbook is open to a picture he's not familiar with, of a person hunched over a laptop with his face obscured. He looks kind of familiar, but he isn't Kaede. She's also been taking notes in what looks like English at first and then Japanese later - something about the Liberal Democractic Party? "Kazuko Yamagata" is written down, with an arrow to "Cicada in Aoyama."] [The plate has crumbs, and the mug has the milked and sugared down version of what Katie calls coffee.] * Kyon doesn't look as if this is particularly edifying information, although at least she did eat something. He goes over to his computer to make with logging in. "When did you eat?" he calls out, just to check. * Katie calls back, "Around noon, I guess? I had toast." And then she closes the door. * Kyon shakes his head curtly, but he's not going to say anything until she gets back. He gets into his e-mail, and searches through for ones that are also addressed to Katie. Finding a couple of likely sets of messages, he starts reading through. * Katie returns after a few minutes, scratching at the back of her head. "Did you get through them?" * Kyon holds up a finger, not turning away from the screen as he reads. He does ask, though, "You hungry?" Yeah. * Kyon nods curtly. "Want me to make something?" Not if you're still reading. * Kyon smirks slightly. "When I'm done?" * Katie snerks. "Yeah. Okay." She looks at his monitor. * Kyon clicks over to one more, from Haruko. It looks like he's nearly done. * Katie shifts slightly, then heads back to the kotatsu. She starts cleaning up after herself, at least clearing away the plate and mugs. * Kyon doesn't pay attention, and he reads through to the end, checking that he's got it all before turning around in his chair. * Katie is washing plates and mugs when he does that, possibly for something to do. * Kyon looks at her stuff on the table. "So a lot happened." Not *happened*, really... * Katie checks a plate for spots before setting it on the drying rack. * Kyon shrugs quickly, and smirks. "Two things happened." He unfolds himself from his chair. "What've you been researching?" Kaede sent me a couple of files from Shuffle's premium service. Promotion-welcome stuff, with Yorihisa and Remi Okui. I've been figuring out what I can from them. * Kyon nods quickly, and comes towards the kitchen, opening the fridge to ascertain what he can do. "Which is?" Well... * Katie washes a mug. "I don't think Remi's mind controlled or anything. And she's a lot better with her powers... not more powerful as much as... focused? More controlled." * Kyon crouches a bit and narrows his eyes. "Probably good." * Katie shakes her head. She sets her mug on the drying rack. "She's learning from someone." She looks at Kyon. "I think from one of the people I saw in a reflection in the video." * Kyon frowns, and starts pulling out a few vegetables. "You can tell who?" I don't know who she *is*, but I saw her. I was... I need to draw a picture of her. I've been trying to enlarge and sharpen the image but it just looks awful. * Kyon nods curtly, takes out some kimchi as well, and closes the fridge, going over to the table. "Probably wasn't made for that. Think you'd know her if you saw her?" * Katie nods. "Yeah. I'm pretty sure." Pause. "I couldn't make out her facial features really well, but she stands like she owns everyone in the room." * Kyon scowls, and crosses over to her to get a knife and a chopping board. "Right. So she should be easy to spot if we run into these people." Hope so... * Katie glances at her laptop. "So, yeah... also, Yorihisa's gotten a speaking coach or something." * Kyon blinks, and looks down at her. "Yeah?" * Katie nods firmly. "Yeah." She crosses back into the living room, wiping her hands off on her shirt, to get her notebook. * Kyon takes the chopping board, and goes over to the table to get to cutting things up. "So he's in whatever you were looking at?" * Katie looks up. "Huh? Oh..." She picks up her sketchbook. "Yeah." And flips it over to show Kyon the sketch. "Yorihisa Murimura. Also in the reflection in the video." * Kyon looks over at it. "Which is the extra thing Takeuchi sent just to you." Yeah, the video with Remi and the voice over. He wanted me to see if anything was off about it... I think he was kind of hoping she was mind controlled. * Katie blinks once, maybe gathering her thoughts, then says, "So in the voice over that Kaede sent me, with him talking, his speech patterns were off, like... weird, and then I did a bunch of reserach and figured it out. It's kind of old-timey, and he shared a lot of phrases with speeches from the Liberal Democratic Party about education. Which... kind of ties to rumors I heard about Aka Uehara dating someone in politics." * Kyon frowns again, and chops away, looking down. "Got some connections in the LDP. Politicians with a profile on education? I can follow up on that." * Katie raises her eyebrows in surprise. "You can?" * Kyon smirks. "The Soratas are an old, wealthy family from the country with deep conservative values. We are the LDP." I'm putting that on the wall, too. * Kyon snorts. "How big are you making this?" * Katie grins. "As big as I want." I've got a name for you to look up, too. * Kyon looks up at her, stilling his knife. "Who?" * Katie looks at her notebook. "Kazuko Yamagata? She was in Cicada that one time and ended up in my bubble. I thought she looked kind of familiar but..." * Kyon nods curtly. "You know how to write it? Mountain shape peace girl? I can look." * Katie blinks at Kyon, and then she nods. "Yeah. I found some stuff about her online, but not much." * Kyon nods quickly. "Should be able to find out more. Can also get in touch with a couple of other people. See if they got involved in this thing. How much whoever was trying to isolate us went." * Katie smiles a little. "Thanks." And, um... another thing that Kaede told me is someone or something involved in Shuffle is keeping us from getting official invites to it. He mentioned me and Akemi and himself, but if you haven't gotten one, and Haruko hasn't, I wonder if it's all of us. * Kyon shrugs quickly, and gets back to chopping. "Probably is. No idea why. But we'll find out." * Katie sighs. "Yeah." She looks down at her laptop. "I should tell people about all of this." Right. Did enough research on your own. I can add on. * Katie nods. "Tomorrow. I should try to get more sketches done..." She yawns, covering her mouth with one hand. "Gotta try some tarot sites, too." * Kyon nods quickly. "You want to write to them first? Or me?" Whichever? * Kyon cocks his head, and finishes up the chopping. "Eat first, and then we'll work it out." * Katie nods twice. She looks down at her laptop again. * Kyon gets up, and gets out some rice. "Fried rice?" * Katie perks. "Please." * Kyon goes to grab the rice and some eggs. * Katie sits by the kotatsu again, peering at the time on her laptop before she lets out a small yelp. "Hi Kumaguro," she greets the cat as he brushes by her on his way to the kitchen and Kyon. * Kyon smirks, and gets to cooking! [And soon, there is dinner and more e-mails!] [End!]