With the winnings from surviving the fog - she finds that a little funny and a little odd, but she's not turning down money and perhaps Sonja will take the job they've all been offered - Ilde does have a little self-indulgence money to spare, and she's made herself a list of things she wants more than needs to consider which of them she should start spending on. Books are near the top of that list, and on one of her more-or-less daily outings she finds her way into the same bookstore as Kriv.

Poetry is what first appeals to her, then sheet music, but she sifts through with delicate hands for whatever else she might find; she'll walk out of here with one thing, she decides, so she should decide carefully what she wants-

Hm. It's not Kriv's appearance that attracts her attention (although she finds it oddly soothing to see someone blatantly xenian, and she has the passing thought that like Hellboy, he's a very pretty colour), but his voice (a quality of it that she can discern with some attention, even without the option of turning the volume up on the CiD), and after a moment she says apropos of not much at all- "I remember you."