[even gentlemen have days off, she wouldn't hate. entering the apartment she immediately takes one of the freshly cleared surfaces and sets the bottle and a bag of stuff on it, so much for illusion of cleanliness.] It's funny, when I heard you had your own place I imagined it might look like this. Maybe with a cat.

I'm actually doing okay. Had a day off and I thought I'd surprise you, hope that's alright. It's been a while, after all. [she sounds appropriately sheepish for it has been a long one; a case had come up during the group's first formal reunion, and she'd kinda dropped off the grid after that. That said, she looks in good health and good spirits; hair cut chin-length and lab coat exchanged for a tweed jacket but no giant scars or eyepatches or anything, apparently piracy didn't happen in the last few years] What about you, what've you been up to, what happened to your hair?