Suki grinned, poked her tongue out at Umichi, "You've corrupted me" She said, rising, brushing herself off, and flicking her hair back. She smiled, and tried to appear non-threatening to the girl. She watched Umichi try and coax the girl up, and wondered what type of life the girl had had in here. Her heart went out to the girl, who didn't appear to be much older then ten. She had probably come to play for fun, and ended up stuck in the game, unable to reach her parents, unsure what to do. 

When Umichi checked the time, and grabbed her hand, as well as the gilrs, Suki had to laugh. "He does this a lot" She said to Timi, "I like it" She smiled at Yui, and said "Hi". But when she saw the situation, her smile faded, seeing the theif from earlier, and wincing as Fujiwara seemed to want to rip his throat out. Suki shifted, putting herself in front of Timi, as Umichi walked up to Fujiwara. She turned to Timi, kneeling down so she was eye level with the girl. "I'm Suki. We're just having a bit of trouble with someone, nothing serious. Come on, I'll get you a drink and a sandwich. You must be starved" She settled Timi at a table, and grabbed a drink and sandwich for her, slipping in beside her, so she wouldn't see any confrontation. Timi was quite, pale, but accepted the food and drink with a mumbled "Thank you, Nee-Chan" and Suki smiled. She couldn't imagine what the girl was thinking. 

Suki brought up her friends list and added Timi, thinking that it would be good to keep track of her. "Maybe we can take you back to the town of beginnings" Suki said after a minute. Timi tensed up, her hands squeezing her sandwich slightly. Timi shook her head, "No, please...the other kids...they're mean to me..." As tears filled TImi's eyes, Suki didn't hesitate, pulling the girl into a hug. "It's okay. You can stay with us, if you like then, Timi" Suki didn't know how she would convince the others, but she was prepared to fight for Timi. Suki had always had her older brothers to protect her from bullying, or other kids just being mean. Timi deserved that too, so Suki would provide it. "Come on now, you have to eat, and then I can take you to a room, to rest some. It sounds like its been a long day for you" She coaxed Timi into eating, glancing up as Umichi stepped out the inn with Paka. When Timi had finished eating, Suki took her up to the room she had claimed, seeing the two double beds, pretty much taking up most of the room. Timi's eyes were wide, and Suki imagined that she hadn't spent much time in inns. She smiled at the girl, "Go on, claim a bed. We can share, cause we only have three rooms with enough beds for the rest of the team" Timi quickly claimed the bed by the window, and Suki sat down with her. "Just rest. You're safe" And even though she knew Timi was too old for it, she began to sing softly

"nchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic, you'll probably go far.
Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you'd stop and see how beautiful they are" 

Suki thought it would offer the girl a sense of comfort, and Timi closed her eyes, after burrowing under the covers. Suki smiled, and stayed where she was. 

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Paka looked up as the thief from earlier appeared, talking to him, and he was about to say something about stolen goods when Fujiwara came barging in, and began to yell at the theif. "Fujiwara" Paka snapped, "You would go far to save and protect Ayame, wouldn't you? this game is about survival, and you yelling at him isn't going to affect him. So take a deep breath, calm down, and shut your bloody mouth, because your judgement is clouded by the fact he stole for Ayame" He said, just as Umichi game up. 

Paka sighed, shaking his head, and rising when Umichi asked him to step aside and talk. "They're going to rip him to shreds, so lets not linger long shall we? The kid seems okay, except for the stealing part. There's worse he could have done to get items off from people, and you know it. He could have just attacked solo players out of safe zones and taken their items that way. Yes, the gifts he has everyone is probably brought with stolen money. But in this game, we should be helping all those we can. Just because we aren't in the real world, doesn't mean we should leave our basic human morals behind. The kid needs help. We can offer it. Fujiwara is just ticked off because he stole from Ayame. Look, we'll be going up against the boss soon enough, and I imagine we could use all the help we can get, considering it's probably a tough one. We can team up with him for that, and then if everything's still rickety, we can say goodbye to him. We can't knock back help when it's offered, not this early in the game" 

Paka crossed his arms over his chest, and leaned back against the wall. he wasn't worried about anyone listening in, doubting anyone would have a high enough level to do so just yet.