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Well, it was nice to see that some people's characters remained consistent. Shooting a grateful smile at Sammy's direction for inadvertently driving off the slacking waiters, Amaryllis marvelled at the bombastic confidence the child exuded, from her cutesy outfit (undoubtedly some form of cosplay, cause no Penrose private schools had that sort of uniform) to the sheer mass of her eyes. Children did have that sort of confidence though, didn't they? The fearlessness that allowed them to blow past societal expectations and ignore whatever dark and dastardly thoughts their surroundings were made of. She leaned forward slightly, sipping her ice water...and then realized that her plan of shoving all this free food into Sammy's direction was going to be foiled if this keeps up.

[color=778899]"No no, I insist,"[/color] Amaryllis replied, one hand motioning towards the small mountain of appetizers, [color=778899]"I was the one to invite you, so please, go ahead and enjoy. Hardworking super sleuths need to eat lots to keep up the good work, right?"[/color]

Well no, not really. She could just have this to go if Sammy was really that resistant to the idea of free food.

Shaking it off, the blue-haired bombshell recentered herself, before pulling out the laptop from her backpack and turning it on. A couple seconds later, she typed in a couple keys, pulled up an application, and slid it to the side of the table for Sammy to see. What shone on the screen was a collage of browsers, each of them pointing to a different news report on a crime or incident within Penrose City over the last couple of weeks, the connection between them all being the mysterious circumstances in which they occurred. Some were random stabbings that happened in broad daylight, the perpetrator escaping without a trace after the fact. Others were more subtle, from the almost-instant disappearance of children being caught on CCTV to sudden, unexplainable spikes in aggression of predators housed in Penrose Zoo. [color=778899]"Well, so,"[/color] she paused, wondering if she shoulda opened up with more banal small talk first, just ti get them both comfortable with talking, [color=778899]"Thoughts?"[/color]
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