And since she was watching him, Yulia was going to end up seeing Hikaru Shinta delivering his report and managing to snag a nice quick-dry cum clean-all towel and some nice grape-flavored cigarettes.

Charm could get one very, very far in life.

"Here."

He handed his offerings over to Yulia the moment he broke off from the operative, and smiled.

"Gifts for the road."

Besides: he could not have Yulia not looking pretty. They were going on a pseudo-date, after all.