"You know, you could always call me Yukiko.." she said in a small voice, finally reacting to the nickname he had decided on for her.<br/>"I already told you paranormal things never- ..<span style="font-style: italic">almost</span>never happened in Fukuoka. Most of the knowledge I have about the paranormal is purely technical," she explained as they started walking again. "This is.. only the second time I've encountered a spirit in person."<br/><br/>The fact that the devices they were using went haywire around Kenji was still bothering her. His opinion of the paranormal seemed to be that it was entirely non-scientific, but he couldn't have been more wrong. Even a field as unpredictable as this had constants; rules to follow, patterns to watch for, and more importantly, reasons for everything, if you dug deep enough. Those devices didn't freak out for no reason, although the only explanations she could come up with were so obscene even<span style="font-style: italic">she</span>wasn't willing to believe them.<br/>"This factory can't be<span style="font-style: italic">that</span>big, can it? It's just a glass factory, it shouldn't be hard to find our way out. If we have to, we can just find the exit and wait for Hoshi there.. although I'm worried he would be too excited and never come back if left to his own devices."