[ The brief message is enough to indicate Mashita is done talking for the moment, and it prompts him to tidy up his desk to return to later rather than squeeze a few more minutes of research in that might distract him enough to be late himself. Which would inevitably result in a similar, if not more awkward, conversation than the phone charging blunder.
While Mashita was late, six minutes wasn’t too bad. It was just enough to have him checking the time and let the slight concern over what Mashita might have had left to ‘wrap up’ cross his mind, but not long enough for instinct to fan the flames into a full-blown worry. He knows the detective preferred to wander in when he was good and ready outside serious situations, and if he needed ‘a drink or six’ then he also probably needed a smoke on the way.
Yashiki used the time to save them a place to sit and put in an order for the first round of snacks and drinks a few minutes before the man arrived, to save time and start on making up for his mistake.
It’s fairly obvious when he spots the detective’s arrival. Head perking up slightly where he’d been slightly distracted by his own thoughts until then, only to give the man a slightly searching look out of habit, probably checking for signs of anything the other might have neglected to mention over text.
But once his concerns were put to rest, he raised a hand to wave the other over. ]
@kekkin
[ The brief message is enough to indicate Mashita is done talking for the moment, and it prompts him to tidy up his desk to return to later rather than squeeze a few more minutes of research in that might distract him enough to be late himself. Which would inevitably result in a similar, if not more awkward, conversation than the phone charging blunder.
While Mashita was late, six minutes wasn’t too bad. It was just enough to have him checking the time and let the slight concern over what Mashita might have had left to ‘wrap up’ cross his mind, but not long enough for instinct to fan the flames into a full-blown worry. He knows the detective preferred to wander in when he was good and ready outside serious situations, and if he needed ‘a drink or six’ then he also probably needed a smoke on the way.
Yashiki used the time to save them a place to sit and put in an order for the first round of snacks and drinks a few minutes before the man arrived, to save time and start on making up for his mistake.
It’s fairly obvious when he spots the detective’s arrival. Head perking up slightly where he’d been slightly distracted by his own thoughts until then, only to give the man a slightly searching look out of habit, probably checking for signs of anything the other might have neglected to mention over text.
But once his concerns were put to rest, he raised a hand to wave the other over. ]