"...Yeah, quite," she mutters when the idea of not involving the police in this comes up.

And out they go. Megi seems... A little tired, if anything.

"If I remember correctly there's a decent cheap inn... That way."

She starts walking, with a little sigh.

"...You seem ready for today to be over."

"Cities remind me of how... Tangled up people can get. Face, politics, money, law, bullies, busybodies. It's all the good parts and bad parts of life in a hyper-concentrated dose. I've given out twenty three blessings while you were gone, each of them a glimpse into a life. A few sob stories, a few hopeful ones. They blur together."

Well.  That calls for some nice comforting headbonks.

"Humans - and presumably all the rest of us who came from that evolutionary line, however we ended up getting here, as well - weren't built to process knowing more than, like, a hundred fifty people.  Even that was probably more people than our ancestors would have encountered day-to-day when we were still foragers.  And then a few thousand years later - which is so absurdly tiny on these scales - we have cities of thousands or millions.

"Which is all a long-winded way of saying - yeah, that overwhelmingness comes from a very real place.  And that's not even getting into the things people twist themselves into knots over, you know?"

Scritching!

"I know, I know. I know these things intellectually, but it helps to have them said."

That building up there seems to be the inn- A large, smooth-walled tan building with geometric-pattern paint and a large sign with a picture of a bed and a piece of bread. Megi walks inside to reveal a rather nice little courtyard with a glittery little waterfall at one end, and rows of doors facing it up to three stories up.

"Yep, same as I remember. Good beds, quiet, good clientele. Pricey but worth it."

"Mmmm.  Good to know."  It's really very pretty.

They go through the rituals of asking for a room and getting the key and so, and walk up to the second floor and find the right room and-

Megi just flops on the bed.

"Gonna sleep just like this. Right now. So I'm awake at night to check out the place..."

"Good plan.  Do you want me to come with you?"

"I'll be going as a fox, and I think two foxes are more notable than one fox... I wouldn't stop you but I don't see a need for it, dear."

"We don't have to be in the same places, I should think.  But if you think you've got this under control, just...  Leave me a note and someone I should take it to if you do get eaten by some old horror?"

"Galasa's tits If I get eaten, tell the fuckin' Inquisition... Cannibalism's a bad sign... I'll leave a message for you with the innkeeper here... She's... Reliable..." 

zzzzzzzz

"That was metaphorical but that's good to know...  Oh.  Sleep well."

Is Alicia going to do anything in particular in this inn room? Or just also sleep?

Probably also sleep, yes.

Megi wakes up around midnight and prepares a note and a snack and an exit route for Alicia, and then... Will be off.

Hopefully it will really just be paranoia!

And with a reassuring paw wave, she's out the window.

And she is eating the snack because one simply Does Not turn down free-ish food and waiting nervously for Megi's return until sleep takes her.

Megi is back at... A time, certainly. There aren't any convenient clocks.

"It's just communism and edgy art. Back to sleep..."

Alicia bursts into giggles upon hearing that it's just communism that got everyone so riled up.  "Hell of a coincidence - and good for them, if I might say so!  I should've gone!"

"It might get them into trouble if they get more into it but whatever. Sleeeeeeep." She noses under a pillow and curls up under it.