> "Ah."
> Take a look over to see what she has. Hopefully it's the boar trap!
>One of the things she has in indeed the Steel Trap, which she drops on the ground to lighten her load. "Firstly," she says, "Here your trap, Crown Prince. It was lodge in a tree."
>She then presents the other thing she was carrying, a horn nearly as long as your leg. You immediately recognize it as one of the behemoth's, having dodhed around them a few times. "Secondly," she continues, "It seems that at least a couple of these have not dissolved into ash with the rest of its corpse."
>Seiga then quickly places the horn into some nearby brush, "Thirdly," she says as she straightens back up, "We have some-"
>"What the heck do you idiots think you're doing!?" comes the voice of Reimu from above, causing Futo to jump. Looking upward, you can see the shrine maiden flying over the tree line, glaring down at you with talismans in one hand and her gohei in the other.
>"-company..." Seiga finishes, frowning.
>ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD: Youmu.
>Dinner has been pleasant, all in all. Kotohime has all but demanded that she cover the bill, and has urged you to eat generously as a reward for bringing a dangerous criminal to justice. The pub has been lively, but slowly quieting down as the two of you dine and talk about idle thing. Kotohime, over a sizable bowl of udon, talks animatedly about whatever seems to pop into her mind; objectss in her collection, day to day happenings she's observed in town, a bit of gossip about some of the people she deals with. She jumps from topic to topic in a manner you could have previously thought only of Yuyuko. However, whereas Yuyuko changes subjects general to make subtle points and allusions, it seems that Kotohime is just a bit scatter-brained. Or perhaps she simply has deeper memory issues than it might seem? Generally, it seems she can be coaxed back onto the original topic, but other times her train of thought derails entirely.
>Still, you've learned a few things. Collecting definitely seems to be near and dear to her heart. Perhaps greed plays some role in it, but she seems to take joy out of completing patterns that only she understands, having full sets and such. You haven't been able to detect a mean or spiteful thing in anything she's said. She seems to be fascinated by animals, but also uncomfortable in dealing with them for more than a few minutes. From what you can gather, she has lived in that bunker for nearly a year, and before that lived in a small shack near the edge of the farmlands. She claims to have defended them from faeries, but you suspect that is more incidental than anything.
>Dinner is nearing its end, or at least you have both finished your meals. You suppose there's no particular reason to finish it at the moment. Kotohime has taken to looking out of the window, and worrying at her sleeve with more and more frequency.
>_
