audio | backdated to after the Meet & Greet

[thxforthememories]

[Coming to you from the Police HQ roof... is a groggy-sounding ninja bot. If he were human, one might say he sounded hungover...]

I don't think I like... high grade.

[A beat passes, metal scrapes -- someone pressing a hand to his face.]

For what it's worth... I'm sorry. To anyone I ran into.

And... the Chieftain? [He hesitates again, this time for different reasons.] My offer to you still stands. Regardless of how I acted... afterward.

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[thxforthememories]

You want to come with me...?

[littlecrowgirl]

I...Is that okay?

[thxforthememories]

... Yes, Kay.

[oh wow that is a legitimate smile there.]

I think it's more than 'okay'.

1/2

[littlecrowgirl]

[Oh wow. She was not expecting that. Kagerou was smiling, and he wasn't even intoxicated. In fact, it was a smile while he was HUNGOVER.

He looked so cute when he smiled.]

2/2

[littlecrowgirl]

[Okay, she can't hold it in anymore. She leaps up from that hand and scrambles to his face, wrapping her arms around it and smiling widely.]

Thank you!!

[thxforthememories]

[What.]

[What is happening. Why is -- she's attached to his face. He's too startled to do much more than lie there, his optic suddenly very wide.]

Kay... what...?

[littlecrowgirl]

[She can't help it. While she'd miss Edgeworth back home for sure...there was nothing really holding her there. No one cared like Kagerou did.]

I won't leave you ever.

[thxforthememories]

I won't leave you, either.

You'll come home with me. Everything will be all right... we'll both get to see him.

[Because that's the most important thing, right? They'll be a -- they'll be something he doesn't have a name for.]

[littlecrowgirl]

[Just hearing that...

Sorry, she's got something in her eye. Don't mind her.]

O-Okay...

Together. We'll go home t-together.

[thxforthememories]

Yes.

That's a promise. All right?

[And she'll get to meet him. They'll get to be together -- and she'll be there. It makes him feel good, thinking of that all of the sudden.]

[Like it's all going to be all right.]

[littlecrowgirl]

[She nods furiously, hugging that face extra tight. You might notice it's...slightly moist. That's normal.]

Right. It's a promise.

[thxforthememories]

[He tries to peer down at her, which proves difficult, since she's holding onto his face.]

... Kay? Are you all right...?

[littlecrowgirl]

[She shakes her head up and down, nodding frantically.]

I'm just...so happy.

I have a family again.

[thxforthememories]

Family...

[It's the nearest thing to a foreign concept to him. And he repeats the word slowly, carefully.]

Is that what we are, now?

[littlecrowgirl]

[She gives a nod.

Please dad, let me have Kagerou in our family. You'd love him...]

And families always stick together.

[thxforthememories]

Then... it's settled. Isn't it?

We'll keep this promise.

[littlecrowgirl]

Should we write it down?

[thxforthememories]

If you like.

[littlecrowgirl]

I'll go grab the book Mr. Trion gave me!

[And as fast as she hugged, she let go, scrambling back to the beanbag, flopping over on it and reaching behind.]

Almost...got it...

[thxforthememories]

[He pushes himself up onto his elbows to watch her flail around for it. If it weren't so small, he'd try to help.]

The promise book?

[littlecrowgirl]

You know Mr. Alpha Trion right? He gave me a new notebook to keep track of everything I've learned here! And also to keep promises in.

[She finally grabs it, pulling it out. It's a lot more heavy duty than her old notebook, which she now keeps even more safe.]

This one.

[thxforthememories]

Yes, I do. They say he was the one who marked me.

[When she pulls it out, he peers a little closer at it.]

Do you write in it often?

[littlecrowgirl]

Same here! I have his mark too. Kind of funny how we didn't meet earlier!

[She opens it up, flipping through the pages. There's a lot of doodling and scribbles...]

Yep! Whenever I find out something new.

[thxforthememories]

I wasn't staying in his temple. [He hesitates.] Deckerd... came for me. And brought me to where he was staying.

[He peers at it, trying to see what she has in there.]

Like what?

[littlecrowgirl]

I still have some stuff there. But I haven't gone back in awhile since you have the nest here...

[She needs to get her axe and stuff still.]

Well, the information on how robots are made, for one.