>Okay, NOW we can leave.
>Wait, did she leave a tip? Waitress was pretty promt and friendly enough.
>If Kyouko-chan did not, leave 2 extra guilders and then catch up with the yamabiko.
>Follow her home.
>You decide to leave those 2 guilders of yours here after all, giving them as a tip to the waitress, then follow after Kyouko as she departs the restaurant.
>The streets have emptied noticeably since you first arrived here and there is a cool note in the night air, a little surprising given the season. Kyouko keeps a light pace as she heads west, humming to herself as she walks and cheerfully swinging her arms back and forth in time with her steps. To your attentive eye, her footwork looks a touch uncoordinated, though she never actually stumbles. All in all, it would be a pretty good night - you've had good food and unexpectedly good company and a whirlwind tour of the city you'd long hoped to see. But the fact that your bittercress has yet to bloom weighs heavily on your mind, and the quiet night air once again gives you pause to reflect on this.
>Though the city has quieted from the bustle of the afternoon, you still pass a decent few people along the stone streets - a scattered lone youkai moving quietly about their business and the occasional band of louder ones. None of them show the ostentation of dress that was evident on your first forays into the city and you're growing to understand that you may be too far from the richer neighbourhoods to observe this, at least at this hour; even a city as prosperous as Val Razua does not apportion is prosperity equally. But the environs here are still pleasant by any measure and you can hear the river flowing somewhere not so far in the distance.
>"It's a nice night," Kyouko declares to no one in particular.