Who: Aoko Nakamori, Crow Hogan, Harry Mason, Heather Mason, Henry Townshend, Kaito Kuroba
Where: Route 38
When: Nighttime, August 31
Summary: Campfires are interesting places. Even more interesting when the people sitting at one are a detective's daughter, a guy who plays card games on motorcycles, an internationally-wanted jewel thief, an
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I suppose so.
[Heather you may have to prompt him.]
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[Still, Heather leans over and elbows him, still holding onto Hazel.]
C'mon, Dad! You know some good ones! I remember!
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....Well yes. I know lots of stories...
[Uncertain face.]
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[Heather just grins.]
Ooh, tell the one about the babysitter, dad! That one from those creepy books you used to not let me read as a kid!
[... Yeah.]
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Sometimes I wonder why I even bothered with that.
[A small smile though.]
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But c'mon, how about that story?
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Alright, alright. What story was that....right the babysitting one.
[Just give him a moment to think back. Right...that one. He takes a breath and enters story mode. So suddenly less awkward.]Well, that one's actually one of the stories I collected for one of my books. It was a little bit before you were born Heather. Your mother and I drove quite a bit to hear it ( ... )
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[When he's finished, she turns to the rest of the group with a serious nod.]
That story?
Made me turn down every single neighbor who ever tried to get me to babysit for them when I was in high-school.
[... NOT... THAT THERE HAD BEEN MANY. Mostly folks from the church trying to reach out to those shy quiet people in the Daisy Villa apartment who didn't get out much.]
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I told you not to read them.
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[Since coming to Johto and spending a year in the company of a Growlithe, dog metaphors spring to Heather's mind a lot more readily than before.]
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[... She doesn't really mind that much, judging by her too-serious-to-be-serious tone.]
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