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[white_warlock]

Ah... let's see, what am I missing. Roots of an aloe plant, a feather from a crow

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[just_dont_look]

[Just walking along, mind her own business. Then she passes by the hall Hakuba is in and freezes at the end as there was decidedly a rather strong and abrupt pull on all her senses.]

Wha...?

[She looked over at Hakuba and STARED.] ....Hakuba-san?

[white_warlock]

[The voice isn't familiar, but Hakuba turns to face it anyway, bowl and book gathered in his hands up against his chest.

He blinks. That face looks familiar... only because he's seen it all over the newspapers back home. What is she doing here?

Nevertheless, his demeanor is polite as he greets her]

Detective Toyama-san, correct?

[just_dont_look]

[There was something about Hakuba that was...drawing. She found herself walking over to him before she could even think of what.]

Detective...? Um, no. That's Heiji. [Detective? Why would she be a detective? She hadn't even been sure if Hakuba caught her name, so why would he think she was a detective?]

[white_warlock]

Heiji?

[Now that's a name he hasn't heard of before. Poor Heiji doesn't have fame all the way in Tokyo in his world.

And what more... she had said his name]

Have we met in person before, Toyama-san?

[just_dont_look]

Hattori Heiji. High School Detective of the West. Well....more like ghost hunter right now.... [Stops in front of Hakuba. Why did it seem like he was....really, really handsome? Sure, he was, but he never had an affect when she met him before...]

Yeah. I convinced him to go to the Detective Koshien. A fraud, but still...

[white_warlock]

High school Detective of the West? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that a title you earned? [Or so said the newspapers. Surely they hadn't gotten the story wrong.

The wizard didn't move as Watson perched herself on his shoulder, peering at Kazuha with her sharp gaze]

I don't recall attending anything called a 'Detective Koshien.' I don't know why I would, either. [he held up his book with a frown] Considering I'm not one.

[just_dont_look]

....oh!

[And she's gotten the realization.]

You're not from my world.

[white_warlock]

[Hakuba stared at her for a moment, before he turned to his book with a frown]

Odd. I'm certain I wasn't working on the dimensional travel spell when I found myself here.

[just_dont_look]

That's just what this place does. It doesn't matter if you're normal or not and....wait...

If you're not a detective...what are you that has dimensional travel spells?

[white_warlock]

[He shakes his head and... looks kind of reluctant to admit this, but he was never the type to lie]

Warlock. It's on my mother's side. [He sounds a bit strained as he says this, too]

[just_dont_look]

....

[And that's a facepalm.] I guess that explains what felt like a bulldozer....

[white_warlock]

[He lifts an eyebrow]

Bulldozer?

[just_dont_look]

...psychic.

[Well, since he admitted the warlock thing.]

[white_warlock]

... of course.

[There's a small bit of sarcasm in his answer, though her explanation was a better explanation than the one most girls gave him. He sighs and fiddles with the bowl in his hand, eager to put it down]

[just_dont_look]

What? You can be a warlock and I can't be a psychic? Would you rather I bug you about why it is you seem so much...well, you're different from the Hakuba-san I met before and it's NOT just you not feeling...normal.

[Now she was blushing. Quite indignantly. But does notice him fiddling with the bowl.]

...maybe we should find a place for you to put that down. And your...bird to roost.

[white_warlock]

[-- there it was. Hakuba sighs, and Watson ruffles her feathers on his shoulder. Maybe if he ignores it, it will go away]

Yes, I would... greatly appreciate that, thank you Det-- Toyama-san.

[subject changes were always best in this situation]