[It's probably for the best that none of the neighbors stopped by to clean; if they had, and if they'd found anything incriminating from her father's research - though she's sure he wouldn't have left anything important just lying around where anyone could find it, surely he'd have hidden it away somewhere - it could have been truly bad. But the dust makes it clear enough that no one has been here for a long time.
(Is this really almost four years' worth of dust? She's not sure, but she doesn't want to get her hopes up.)
She bites her lip and looks down the hall.]
He had a room where he would store some of his references... perhaps there. Or in his own bedroom.
[She can't make him search with her, so she smiles a little.] Please, keep making yourself comfortable. I'll be right back.
[And she vanishes down the hall... only to return with an armful of dusty texts a couple of minutes later. She kneels on the ground across from him and immediately gets to work, scanning through the pages and setting them aside whenever she doesn't find anything useful.
...it might be faster, to do the looking in that room, but she would much rather be out here, where Shinpachi is nearby and she doesn't feel so alone in the house that was once her home.
Funny, how the Shinsengumi's headquarters feels more like home, even now that she's back among these familiar walls.]
Ah...!
[It's some time later that she comes across something that looks promising - an intense look comes over her face as she reads through it, and then she leaps to her feet and runs back for her father's clinic with the notes in tow.
dw can't handle the heartbreak
(Is this really almost four years' worth of dust? She's not sure, but she doesn't want to get her hopes up.)
She bites her lip and looks down the hall.]
He had a room where he would store some of his references... perhaps there. Or in his own bedroom.
[She can't make him search with her, so she smiles a little.] Please, keep making yourself comfortable. I'll be right back.
[And she vanishes down the hall... only to return with an armful of dusty texts a couple of minutes later. She kneels on the ground across from him and immediately gets to work, scanning through the pages and setting them aside whenever she doesn't find anything useful.
...it might be faster, to do the looking in that room, but she would much rather be out here, where Shinpachi is nearby and she doesn't feel so alone in the house that was once her home.
Funny, how the Shinsengumi's headquarters feels more like home, even now that she's back among these familiar walls.]
Ah...!
[It's some time later that she comes across something that looks promising - an intense look comes over her face as she reads through it, and then she leaps to her feet and runs back for her father's clinic with the notes in tow.
...you got ditched, Shinpachi.]