BAUplan

The dreaded dinner scene is finally done (mostly).
I'm still debating whether or not the actual meal needs description, or if referring to it the next morning will suffice. The latter would be the more concise story-telling.

Edit after 4 hours: Nope, the actual meal is needed. Too much stuff to discuss for doing that in retrospect without ending up declamatory!

Statistics still don't make sense with too much old stuff left in the file, but here's an excerpt of today's results:

"Subaru had expected them to head up towards the hotel restaurant, instead they left the hotel through a side entrance, entering a maze of smaller streets lined with small shops and offices that were almost deserted this late on a Saturday night. The area became soon even more industrial, with a fish processing factory taking up half of a city block next to a carrier company, its yard filled with trucks.

"Are you sure about the direction?" Subaru asked finally, when they left the sidewalk to head diagonally across a wide´, empty parking lot that held only three small cars.

Seishiro laughed. "Absolutely." He nodded ahead at a low building with a green-tiled roof occupying a corner of the parking lot as if somebody had forgotten to tear it down when the lot was paved. "We're almost there."

"Here?" Subaru asked skeptically.

"You don't get real thing in the tourist districts." Adding, after a moment, "And we can be sure that there are no surprises from the local section here."

"Too remote?" Subaru guessed.

"Too extraterritorial," Seishiro corrected and held the door for him.