[EP/GP] Today is Check-In Day

[st_illunsmeared]

When the fifteenth of the month came and went without any new arrivals, most people logically supposed that there would be no new arrivals that week, or that the pattern they believed they'd found was false after all.

Kitty Pryde, Caroline Forbes, and Phryne Fisher were decidedly not most people.

Between them, they agreed it would be best to keep a watch for a few days following the fifteenth, on the grounds that, often enough, holidays interrupted regular schedules, which would reassert themselves again at the next instance. If "keeping a watch" had required them to do anything out of the ordinary, they might have been somewhat less sanguine about it. Might have, as they were not, after all, most people. Yet since their routines, almost invariably, had them in public places, working and people-watching, it required no special effort on their part to be alert for new arrivals.

So it was that Phryne had taken up a table in the lobby cafe to read and hold court, while Kitty took an extra shift tending bar, and Caroline tidied up and labeled the boxes of decorations from Valentine's day "for next year's residents" on the morning of the sixteenth and again on the seventeenth--and not one of them were surprised when, in early afternoon, newcomers began to arrive.

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Re: Jane Doe - Assigned Threads

[st_artingpoint]

Jane looked down at her arm, the easiest to see of all of her tattoos. To her, they didn't look intricate to her but then again, she wasn't sure if she'd know if they were or weren't.

"So maybe there's a reason in the tattoos." She was mostly just thinking outloud. "A message or something."

Re: Jane Doe - Assigned Threads

[st_eampunk]

"Could be." Molly agreed. "For me, my tats mean something even without the details yours have so I'm going to guess they mean something, too. I just don't know if it means something to you or whoever did them."

Re: Jane Doe - Assigned Threads

[st_artingpoint]

"Maybe if I look at them all, something will make me remember." Jane said half to herself and part to Molly. "Even if they only mean something to whoever did this, there has to be a reason. I was put in a bag wherever I was supposed to be before the hotel. They have to mean something to someone else, right?"

Re: Jane Doe - Assigned Threads

[st_eampunk]

"Yeah, I'd say that's a good theory." Molly had to agree with her. "Come on, the boutique is over here and we can get you something to wear. But, before we do that, let's take a really good look at your tattoos in the mirror in the dressing room. It's a three way so you and I should be able to see most of them at once."

Re: Jane Doe - Assigned Threads

[st_artingpoint]

Jane wasn't sure what a three way mirror was, but she hoped she'd at least recognize it when she saw it. Not unlike a sheet, towel and other things that had been handed to her.

"Thanks, Molly." Jane said sincerely. "I'm not sure what I would have done without your help with this."

Re: Jane Doe - Assigned Threads

[st_eampunk]

"I have a feeling that you would have found a way to deal." Molly said but reached over and squeezed her shoulder. "But I'm glad I can help. I do know my tats and I'm pretty good with figuring out how assholes thing." She shot her a quick grin. "Both because I've been an asshole and I've kicked their asses."