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Desiree had been working on something new, that much Agatha knew. When the option to help came up, she accepted. It sounded simple enough, and in all honesty, the task was simple. She just had to meet up with someone named Akito at the small home in the city, then follow the information that had been sent to her phone’s map app. It was a lot of walking, from what she could tell, but it was simple enough, and everything was marked with pins.

With a ride in the car to the city home, she took some time sitting inside and looking over all the shelves and the piano. The books here were all sheet music, something that she didn’t exactly know how to read, but knew that all the inhabitants of the manor had an interest in.

Sitting at the piano, she opened it and tentatively pressed on a few of the keys; the sound was clear, if not a bit clumsy, but she thought it amusing as she passed the time waiting for the other assistant to arrive. If they were meeting here, it must mean they didn’t know about the other home, or this one was closer to things. She had her suspicions, but given the fact that she was left to her own devices most of the time, she was alright with continuing to ignore Aloysius and his questions.

Hearing the door, Agatha stopped mid melody and stood. She pushed the piano bench back in before heading toward the door. The person she could see through the peephole seemed to match the description she’d been given, so after another moment, she opened the door a bit and looked at them.
“Hello, are you Akito?” Asking quickly as she stood mostly behind the door. She preferred not to let anyone else in, if they weren’t who she was supposed to meet up with, but then again, she was certain she could handle them if they were just a regular human.

Looking at their hand for a moment, she stepped outside with them and closed the door behind herself, locking it up and tucking the key away. “Yes, I am.” Once she was sure everything was locked up tight, she turned back to face their outstretched hand and shook it once. She was getting used to humans being shorter than her, especially the one blonde she’d met before, even if their name escaped her now.

“Yes, Desiree sent me a map with some locations marked.” Holding her phone up as she checked it now, she was pleased to see they were marked with a nice path to follow from this place. “She wants us to access things and then see how tamper-proof some places are. She’s keeping tabs on things with something that she mentioned. As to be expected for her.” Smiling slightly as she commented, she started walking at a leisurely pace.

“Follow me then, as I’m not sure how to forward this to you as well.” While the device had been explained in part to her, she still didn’t exactly like it. It buzzed and made noise far too often for her liking, especially when she was engrossed in a book or while writing in her own special little book.

“No, no need for any of that. It could bring some unwanted visitors,” she said coldly. There was no need to power up, from what Desiree had said, and she was fine doing just that. She preferred looking around at things as they went, taking in the different buildings and names on each of the street corners. It was odd to see things laid out as they were, but she’d read enough to figure out that was just how things were done here.

Within fifteen minutes and a bit of looking, her phone beeped, and she started looking around. “The first one is here somewhere. She didn’t say what it looked like, but if these storage containers are meant to be left undisturbed by others, then they may not stand out?”

Nothing looked out of the ordinary; there were phone booths as well as various planter boxes next to a bus stop. There were a few trash cans that she nudged gently with her shoe, but what caught her attention was what looked like a loose brick on the side of the brick wall that held the planter boxes.

“Oh? Perhaps this?”

Kneeling down, she pulled at the brick and found it not coming free, but instead pulling a section of the wall open. It was a small door, or hatch, she supposed, and inside it were some medical supplies as well as a small light at the back that blinked a few times rapidly as it was opened.

“So these are what we are looking for, I suppose.” Shuffling through the items, just to see what was there, she heard her phone buzz and looked down. A text had come through from Desiree. “Looks like she knew we opened it, so now to put things back and move on.”

It was easy enough, and she was certain that this little trek was so that the team could learn what these caches looked like. This one was hidden enough that most people would overlook it, and that seemed to benefit them.

Pushing the hatch closed, with the brick still misaligned as before, she then stood up and dusted her stockings off. “So it seems like we need to check through them, though it sounds like you have seen them before?” She wasn’t surprised that Desiree was working with multiple people on this, even if the woman handled all the tech herself.

Looking back at the map, the next one looked like it was near the reservoir, another place she had heard of but had not been to yet. “The reservoir next, it looks like.” Showing him the map for a moment, she had to really think about what direction to head. This was further out than she had usually gone, but perhaps that was why Akito was here.

Well it seemed that they knew about a few of these storage areas, which would be helpful. As was the fact that they knew where things were in this city. “Alright, then you can lead the way to this next one, and we’ll go from there. There are 15 markers on the map, she said, they were newer locations that needed checking.”

How many there were aside from the ones marked, she couldn’t exactly tell, but with as big as this city was, it would make sense to have more of them. Though as they spoke of haunted sand, she looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

“What? That’s ridiculous.” It seemed far-fetched to say the least, but it would seem like she’d get to find that out tonight. She was already taking note mentally of the distance between things, which seemed vexing to walk, but by staying like this, it meant less attention and fewer annoyances, so it was an alright enough trade off.