Yeah, and I owe some overdue replies X.X including yours. It'll get done, no worries.

Chicken and Pasta sounds great to me, just eagerly anticipating the method in which he approaches her when she's finishing up. And Lin having an estate I can't specifically recall, I think it was modest to kinda reflect the loneliness that came with her, kind of like how you described her feelings to having no one to welcome her home? But heck I'm cool with anything, I just don't want a nice estate to tempt Meelo to destroy something :P