32: Theft
'Satoshi,' I sat up as a foreign thought brushed my mind 'I don't know if our link reaches this far but I'm on my way home.' 'Where are you?' I sent back, 'On my way back from Tokyo, by air.' Amusement colored this thought and I snickered, so he's flying home on the wing huh, be a good chance to see how long we can sustain flight without landing, the only things that have made us land have been sunrise, because people would wonder where we are, or magic exhaustion because we over did it on our magic practice. 'See how long you can fly without landing would you? It would be nice to know how long we can stay airborne.' A feeling of assent touched my mind and I expected him to pull away now, but worry and unease seeped across, though I doubt he was trying to convey anything. Curious I asked 'What has you worried?' 'You felt that?' 'Yeah.' 'Well… have you heard about the Kaitou Kid, Tokyo jewel thief?' I began to have a bad feeling about what came next. But I answered anyway 'Yes.' 'Guess who it is.' My bad feeling solidified. 'The heir?' 'Yes, I watched a heist and recognized some techniques, that was how I knew I'd found the right Kuroba family. But that's not what has me worried Satoshi. Kaito is looking for Pandora.' I felt ice shoot down my spine at that. If the gem of immortality is known to be more than a legend we need to find it fast. If the idiot who made it is still around every magic user in both our clans wants to have a word with him. 'He wants to be immortal?' I questioned. 'I would've thought better of someone whose family learned from Dark.' 'No, he doesn't want immortality. He wants to destroy it to keep it out of the hands of someone who does want immortality. And given the fact that Kaito is nowhere near old enough to be the first Kid, and the death of his father, I think that whoever he wants to keep it from is willing to kill for it.' I swallowed hard. 'I'll hit the books; look for the last known sightings of Pandora, as well as just what it looks like. That one should never have been made, even my clan agree on this, and considering my clan's attitude to magic artifacts runs something along the lines of there are never too many…'
'I get it. I'll hit the books as soon as I get back too.'
'Daisuke… if we can't find much on it in writing… we may need to network.' 'Network?' 'Your clan may leave most of the sealing to the main line, but they are all over the place.' 'Surprise', hummed along our link, and then 'thoughtfulness, consideration, acquiescence.' I closed my eyes for a moment and steeled my nerves, hoping I wouldn't need to do what I had just thought of, even if it was a logical next step from the Niwa network. 'Satoshi' He caught my unease it seems, but then I caught his. I answer his unasked question 'I may need to search the clan library and see if anyone there knows anything.' 'Oh.' Concern, rippled across to me, and then, determination. 'If it comes to that… I'll go with you.' 'Thank you'