Asuka crossed through the gardens, intent on taking in the sights there before she headed further into the ruins. She paused next to an overgrown tree and tugged her coat a bit tighter around her. Cloud cover or not, it tended to be chilly here. The sheer amount of green around her reminded her a bit of some of the farmland around Tokyo-3 - but this really was the only spot of green around here, wasn't it?

She frowned, about to move on, when the sound of someone playing guitar drifted to her ears. She perked up and carefully began to pick her way through the undergrowth. Her wnadering feet (and attentive ears) brought her around the bough of a tree to find a kid playing the guitar. Well, not just any kid. That weird mute she'd met once before.

She listened to him play for a little while longer before she gave him a little round of applause.

"So, you are pretty good at it, after all."