A little laugh. "Mm, a little, but not in a scary way? Shinichi's my--" Brief cutoff, unsure how to refer to him. "Childhood friend." (Safe enough, at least?) "He's a detective, and he's been on a case away from home for a while. He'd been gone for a bit by then, and seeing what I thought was him walking across the street with someone . . . It really startled me."

And had caused a little twist in her gut at the time -- as though Shinichi had formed a new life elsewhere somehow, and hadn't been honest about it. (Maybe an irrational thought, but still there within that moment.)

Eyes coming back to rest on his face again, ". . . It almost seems like there was another place that I saw you, too? But I'm not sure where that would have been . . ."