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[Hello network! Today we have a pretty excited looking Molly who's keeping the camera turned around on herself as she's walking through a busy Goldenrod street. Her Natu is perched on her shoulder, on occasion chirping quietly to herself.]

This city is really big! I mean, I knew it'd be big, and I know it's not as big as New York, but it's really big compared to Violet.

Anyway, I bought a map, and I saved up some money, so ... does anybody know any good places that I should go to? Like your favorite spots or something? Everybody has those.

Okay, bye!

[She waves at the feed before she turns it off.]

[Action: she is anywhere and everywhere throughout this and the following days, having fun in following that tourist map of hers to well known stores and coffee shops and craft stores and town squares and yes she wants to see everything. Feel free to run into her anywhere.]

Audio, private to Jimmy: Hi Jimmy, I'm in Goldenrod now! If you still want to fly here.

Audio, private to Rin: I'm here now! Where are you? Can I come see you if you're not busy?

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[Kaneki blinks, pushing his book aside for the moment. He'll have plenty of time to finish it back at the hotel, and now it's his turn to be surprised by her offer.]

Well...sure, I guess.

[He turns the pen around once in his hand, looking up at Hide still leafing through his big picture book. It seems that he's been looking at the same one this whole time.]

What do you want to draw?

_{[She pulls out her sketchpad from her backpack and picks up a number more coloured pencils that she just kinda drops in the middle of the table. It means help yourself, Kaneki. You can borrow them if you want.]}

I don't know. I just want to draw.

_{[... BUT WHAT IF]}

We could draw each other!

[Well that causes him to smile, even as Hide bends over to grab one of the pencils to examine, his picture book momentarily forgotten.]

Alright, we can do that. I'm...not all that great, but my friend and I used to draw some back home.

_{[When Molly notices Hide reach over to take one of them, she shoots him a smile and a quick "hang on" before she tears out a paper from her book to give to him. In case he also wants to draw.]}

You draw little houses all the time!

_{[Teasing, in that very friendly way.]}

I bet you're good at it.

[Kaneki exchanges his pen for one of the pencils as Hide takes the paper excitedly from Molly, putting his book aside and immediately getting on his belly on the table to start to draw.

He chuckles good-naturedly, starting to draw lazy circles on his paper again.]

Yeah, I guess you have a point, there.

_{[Molly, on the other hand, throws herself right into the drawing. She picks up a black pencil for starters since Kaneki has black hair, and watches him as she draws and starts carefully drawing the shape of his face.]}

Well yeah. I'm really good at points.

_{[Just nonchalantly, but again in a friendly tone, even as she gets a little distracted as she starts mapping the drawing out.]}

[He notices a bit too late that he picked up green. Molly's hair certainly isn't green, so that will just uhh...be the grass. Yeah. So he starts busily coloring that in while she talks, glancing up slightly at that quip.]

You know...you remind me of someone I know back home. A little.

[Molly definitely has a lot more of an outgoing personality than who he's thinking of...but they still share similarities.]

_{[She's surprised by this, but not as much as she probably would have been half a year ago. Pausing from one of the straight lines that would be his neck, she looks up at him, tilting her head a little.]}

Really? Who?

[He finishes with the grass before answering, moving to pick up another pencil so he can actually start drawing her.]

Her name is Hinami-chan. I helped teach her how to read kanji, sometimes.

_{[She nods, a little more serious on this topic for some reason. Maybe it's something in the way he's talking about it that just seems to be that way. She darkens a line a few times to make it stronger and then draws a half circle for his shirt collar.]}

Were you friends?

Mhm. We were.

[Well, they are. Nothing has happened to her, after all...at least, he hopes not.

He is silent for a moment as he starts drawing Molly's hair.]

I think she would like it here, if she ever shows up.

_{[So he misses her. Molly gets that. There are a few people she really misses, too.]}

Are any of your other friends here?

[He pauses, his expression shifting just slightly as he draws her shoulders, lightly.]

Well...yes. ...sortof. They're from home, and I do know them...I just don't know them very well yet.

_{[She frowns a little, looking up at him for a moment from where she's filling in his shirt.]}

Do you want to?

[...he couldn't tell Molly, but it was...a bit more complicated than that. Especially with one of them.]

I think so. It might take a little while, though.

Okay. I guess even if you don't get to here you can talk to them back home, right?

[Kaneki's grip on his pencil tightens, causing his line to grow dark. He doesn't stop drawing, though.]

I...I suppose, yes. Things are...a bit more complicated back home right now, though.

_{[Oh. .. oh. Even if she doesn't quite catch that, she can tell by his tone that something changed there, and she gives him an apologetic look. A little nervous, too. Hoping she didn't say something wrong.]}

Sorry ... is it really bad?

[Kaneki glances off to the side, only just catching the look she gives him.]

It's alright, you couldn't have known. But...yes, it is.

[He takes a breath, leaning back in his chair.]

There isn't any point in worrying about it right now anyway...now that I'm here, at least.

Well ... maybe you could find a way to fix it.

_{[Except no, and she frowns down at her drawing, drops her voice.]}

Except you won't remember. So it doesn't matter.

[Kaneki smiles, just slightly. But it's...definitely sad.]

This isn't something I can fix, I'm afraid. But you're right. It wouldn't matter, would it?

But...that's okay. Like I said, I've been trying not to worry about it.

_{[She nods, and changes her black pencil for another color.]}

Okay.

I hope it works out, whatever it is.

Thank you, Molly-san.

...I'm sorry. I didn't mean for our conversation to get so somber.

[He laughs weakly, lifting a hand to scratch the side of his face.]

_{[She simply shrugs, apparently a little stuck in the mindset now even if she's not that interested in staying in it for long.]}

It's okay. It happens.

[Kaneki nods a little, returning his attention back to his own drawing for a moment before glancing back over at hers, briefly.]

Hey...that looks just like me.

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