Nicole and I made it back to base after a short hunt in the sewers. We weren't very successful, likely because the nessies had claimed the area in a several mile radius and scraped the walls clean. Still, walking and talking seemed to cheer Nicole up, enough so that she wasn't completely adverse to what Mikey and Cindy had in store. We were going on an outing. "I don't know about this guys.""It'll be fine, Nicole. We won't go anywhere you aren't comfortable with," replied Cindy. I could tell she was quite confident in her plan, as she'd already changed her voice using her inhaler in preparation."Still, wasn't there that lockdown? Wouldn't it be safer to stay in for a while?""I think we'll be fine," said Mikey. "The super vampire is dead, and Tofu handled the smaller ones fine.""Oh, I'd heard about that from... Wait, you were there?""Yeah, we were in E12 for a job yesterday and got caught up in it. Didn't you tell her, Tofu? While you were out, uh, hunting?" he said, turning to me."He didn't!" said Nicole, giving me an exasperated look. "We talked about waffle irons and brunch history the entire time." I shrugged, to which everyone rolled their eyes. "Anyways," continued Cindy, "That's exactly why now is the perfect time to go out if we don't want to run into a lot of people. No one's going to want to be out after sundown when there (...)