Weeks pass, and he doesn't catch a single card.
When cards become active, he goes looking. They just disappear before he gets there.
He's getting worried, and he's not sure he's satisfied with Kero's explanations.
He tries to focus on school.
"You gonna try to just spread the breadcrumbs around there? What if you get stuck, too?"
"Uh, Scott, mind sitting at the table and pretending we're supposed to be here for a minute? I have some rope in my trunk."
"I'm sorry, do you have lots of experience with space-warping bathrooms you aren't telling me about? Give me a minute."
"Okay. Fine, I'll wait at the table."
With a glance at Sadde, he sits.
...okay that boy was kinda hot who's he.
She relays this to Alistair, though, the other hot boy.
"Try not to be alone with them. The cardcaptor is somewhere between incompetent and dangerous."
"He... doesn't seem either of those things?" she says as if she's asking a question, looking at the two of them assessingly.
His friend is trying to walk to their table with rope and no explanation for the waiters.
Nope, he cannot, they are at the door and are entirely too suspicious of—
"Oh, you remembered, thank you!" says the girl, walking up to him. "I loaned him this a while back and he kept forgetting to return it," she tells staff, "so I guess he decided to just leave it in his car so next time we ran into each other he'd give it back." Right? her glance does not quite ask.
And now they have a rope.
"Okay. I'll go in, you hold onto the end?"
"Unless you'd rather go in, yeah. He likes you more, but I don't think we should risk losing both of you."
He gives her the rope, and ties the other end around his wrist.
"Ready?"