[As a homicide detective, Takagi had some overlap with Reid's area of expertise, but not much. Profiling wasn't as big a thing at the MPD.]
[Figuring out who was new to Nautilus, though, didn't take profiling skills. If his own entrance to the City of Change had been normal, he imagines his face would've mirrored the other man's.]
[But how to breach the subject? It hadn't been too long since he'd arrived himself, and there were days he was pretty sure that this was all some sort of mass hallucination while dying on that board.]
Ah, I'm pretty sure there's no one by those names currently here.
YOU ARE BEING AMAZING. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
[Figuring out who was new to Nautilus, though, didn't take profiling skills. If his own entrance to the City of Change had been normal, he imagines his face would've mirrored the other man's.]
[But how to breach the subject? It hadn't been too long since he'd arrived himself, and there were days he was pretty sure that this was all some sort of mass hallucination while dying on that board.]
Ah, I'm pretty sure there's no one by those names currently here.
[...That probably wasn't a good opener.]