"It'd be easier if we had more details, but I guess we'll just have to comb the place...You were writing. Have you got any ideas as to where to start?"

It was a good guess more than anything else, but Yuki seemed the studious sort. To Isabel, that was no bad thing. She herself was a bit more analytically minded than either of her parents--but it also meant that no one who knew her parents really expected that of her. And really, she liked it that way.

"Maybe we should start by looking at shops that seem really esoteric. Like if it has a stuffed alligator hanging in the window." Like really old-style apothecaries, back on Earth. It was a thought, even if it didn't exactly pan out.