Foggy... [ The Cat murmurs, considering, tilting his head to join Charles in his surveillance of the little junk shop. It's looking so much less full of life now, years down the line, than it had when the Cat had first arrived here. In some ways, the Cat wishes there were things he could forget as easily as Charles has now. He doesn't, wouldn't, wish for total amnesia, but some kind of blurring at the edges of painful memories would be nice, at the very least. Instead, the Cat has a cruelly perfect sort of memory for the amount of years he's been alive. Perhaps that's why his loneliness eats away at him like a sore; it's so easy for him to recall everything that's been lost.

And, speaking of lost... ]

Well, then, you clearly need some sort of lighthouse.

[ Edwin would, of course, be the ideal option here, but since the Cat is doing as he told himself he would when Edwin left Port Townsend and resolutely not thinking about Edwin, he opts for the next best thing. Or, at least, the next best thing available to him; himself.

He tries to think of what Edwin would do in this situation. ]

I'll guide you through it. You came here to look for something to solve a case. The owner is a guy who used to be a Walrus. Kind of depressing, hence the name. He didn't have what you needed, but he gave you a consolation prize. Do you remember what that was?