It always makes Adia happy to help others, even with a small a gesture as offering someone a pen. She pulls one out -- a simple black ballpoint -- and gives it to Ash. She makes a mental note to clear out her messenger bag when she has a free moment. It's getting a little crowded and she doesn't like having to root around so much to find things.

"Oh... I'm sorry you haven't seen him in a while." It's a familiar story, one that makes her frown sympathetically. She's lost friends of her own like that. They stop showing up in the Nexus, and after a while their trail goes cold. "I'm afraid I don't know any detectives. What's his name? What does he look like?" It'd be pretty useful if she did know a detective, come to think of it. "Are you sure he's in the Nexus? He could have gone back to his world."