That definitely explains the headaches and moment of uneasiness.

So I made it to Vancouver. Customs went surprisingly smoothly and quick, cabbie was cool, and got me to my hotel no problem.

...That's where the smoothness of the trip comes to a grinding halt. As I got my room key, I couldn't help but be taken slightly aback at how...familiar it looked.

Then, a few minutes ago, as I found myself locked out of my room while grabbing a bite to eat (...disturbingly similar to what happened at FanExpo, now that I think about it...maybe Canada just hates me?) with my key refusing to work time and again, I realized why it and the lock looked so disturbingly familiar, something that drewtiggy, anher, and valkyreace will be more familiar with...

It's the same model our barracks rooms at A School had. D:

Flashback status: DID NOT WANT

Coo coo cooo! Coooo!

(What an amazing first day in th--)

**DYNAMIC DOVE DEFENESTRATION** Sorry 'bout that. Anyway, first day here in Vancouver's proving that this trip was a good idea, even if my choice of hotels wasn't. (Seriously, on top of the door problems I mentioned last time, if this room were any smaller it'd be a closet!) The Telus Science Center was my first (and so far only) stop today, and I can sum the 3 hours I spent there up in a word:

AWESOME.

On the way back, I ran into what I can only describe as Ryouta, Sakuya, and Yuuya, all fighting over a bit of a hoagie that someone had dropped. Not sure what those three are doing so far from home, but at least they didn't bring a certain psychotic doctor along for the trip.

While on the subject of food, though, that reminds me that I haven't had a thing to eat all day, and my stomach's beginning to take note of that. I'd best go remedy that situation before making any more museum stops.

Anyway, catch you guys la--

**WING ATTACK'D** Grgk!! (TRANSMISSION TERMINATED)

A rather stunning Hatoful revelation.

As I was walking down the street to grab some dinner earlier (intended on a local pizza place, couldn't find it, settled for Subway instead), I found myself with pigeons on the brain once again. More specifically, Okosan and the whole ordeal with Lord Pudi on his route.

Then it occurred to me...Lord Pudi is never mentioned on the Bad Boy's Love route at all. In fact, the entire subject of pudding is avoided entirely. As I was thinking about this, all I could wonder was "why?" ...And then a perfectly valid (and, mostly oddly, understandable and believable) reason hit me:

What if Lord Pudi was simply another creation of Anghel's fantasy that he thrust upon the world, and, by proxy, us? What if Okosan is actually just a normal, if simple-minded and impossibly fast, pigeon, whom our favorite bleeding-heart luzon saw as being the cosmic lord of gelatinous confections?

In his true ending, Anghel's hyperactive imagination could have combined with Okosan's hyperactive self and, at a point that would make a reasonable crescendo in the kind of RPG world that the Crimson Angel of Judecca lives in 24/7, cascade into a bout of trans-dimensional hysteria.

...You know you're involved with something weird when something like all that doesn't seem all that weird.