Okay, I was ready to deal. Somehow.
Falling over myself and practicing the fine art of ignoring everything around me wasn't going to work as an avenue of approach in this case, so I was kinda sorta out of my depth ... before I realized, I didn't really _have_ to deal with it myself.
Or, not directly anyway.
It was roughly two in the afternoon, and it looked like rain, when I was sitting down in a quiet corner of a teahouse - I wasn't about to risk giving in to temptation and hitting another coffee house - and I was in the process of trying to write a letter. Two, really.
Contingencies seemed like a very good idea at the moment.
Fortunately, the stalker tendencies of the former occupant of this body served me well in this. Distasteful as it was, knowing Tohsaka's address and just how to get there would prove useful. For one thing, I could just drop it by her place when she was at school or something.
And really, it was the easier of the two messages. Sprout off some random, semi-relevant lines about things not being how they seemed and impending danger, reference a War of Heroes, end it with a simple line of 'Beware of Kotomine', and write the whole thing in German.
The second one ... well, here's where things got tricky.
I mean, how the hell do you write an all-but-emotionless-assassin hiding away from the world, for all intents and purposes, that you need their help in a matter of life and death?
Without provoking a course of events that will lead to ending up dead in the night due to misinterpretation.
Well, yeah, very very carefully. That's pretty much a given.
It was a longshot, but I was sort of counting on the whole 'teacher' persona to be at least somewhat genuine.
I puzzled over that one for a while, in part because I needed to get it just right, and in part because ... yeah, I was being a gutless coward trying to avoid going back 'home' for as long as I could.
Do you really blame me?
Next, the prodigal grandson returns. Or, an evening at the Matous.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm