( Another fun fact that doesn't get announced: dude totally pieces together the Japanese script is, in fact, Japanese, and is a name. Can't parse what it is exactly, but for reasons that will stay personal — cough, a deep and intense love of Asian cartoons — he gets the formatting. But yeah, that English side is where he focuses. )

Kimiko.

( He reads, and then shoots her a vaguely questioning look — he get that right? After that comes a tight but otherwise more or less sincere smile. )

Well, howdy Kimiko. Hope you're ready for some unsolicited bonding, because we got a hell of a walk to Cadens.

( It's more matter-of-fact than bitching. Inconvenient, sure, but in the grand scheme of things it's hardly the craziest or worst thing like this to happen to him. Not even in the last few weeks. In all likelihood, they won't run into anything on the way, considering the road between the outpost and the city is one of the more travelled and therefor more patrolled. Should be an otherwise boring trip, he just wasn't willing to risk it. It's kind of his job to do what he's doing right now: making sure the civilian (whether she actually is one or is just temporarily civilian status) doesn't get hit with a rare run of bad luck and stumble face first into a Chaigon. )

But first... you wanna tell me what the whole Black Widow escape act was all about?

( It'd be pretty friggin' nice to have a heads-up for if it's gonna happen again. He really doesn't wanna have to chase this chick down through the hot ass desert. After a certain point he'd just seem like a stalker. )