[Oh. He's... extremely and incredibly touched, in a way he's not sure how to deal with. Other than to check the pillowcase as instructed... he finds the rabbit and carefully extracts it, holding it in both hands before heading back over to the kotatsu and setting it down on the table so he can look at it while he works... he's still working on Helena's gift last minute himself, even as he's going out and delivering other gifts (and playing post it note games) in between.
The Christmas party holds a strike of fortune he's very happy about, and he ends up staying up late into the silent hours incorporating that as well.
In the morning of the 26th, lashed to the doorknob of Star 1 with string, is a flat, rectangular package with Helena's name written on it and then... awkwardly poked into the paper in braille with a pencil-tip. It contains the laptop she's spent so long working with already, but Shin has cleared out all programs but the ones she's made or uses, performed software housecleaning on it, cleaned the outside thoroughly and then opened it up and cleaned the inside, carefully dis- and re-assembled, which turned out to solve the noise the fan was making. Finally, the keycaps have been replaced with new braille ones.
He copied Helena's game to his new laptop, and to his USB as backup, and the CD in the disk drive of this one still holds it but there's a new file next to it, labelled 'Nurikabe'. Inside is a program that generates 6x6 Nurikabe puzzles, the program itself as much for her to mess around with as the squares it creates, and a similar text file:]
H,
Loved the game, it worked all the way to the end! You've come so far and I can't claim the credit for that. You put in the hard work yourself, after all. I'm looking forward to getting to see what you do next.
Merry Christmas and thank you. For it all. I don't know if you've seen this kind of puzzle before, but I figured you might like it.
It'll be 2000 here soon, won't it? Let's see what the new millennium holds again.
S
[And a small ASCII art of a rabbit at the end. Using his initial like this... it's clever, he can't help smiling.]
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Date: 2022-01-01 04:53 am (UTC)The Christmas party holds a strike of fortune he's very happy about, and he ends up staying up late into the silent hours incorporating that as well.
In the morning of the 26th, lashed to the doorknob of Star 1 with string, is a flat, rectangular package with Helena's name written on it and then... awkwardly poked into the paper in braille with a pencil-tip. It contains the laptop she's spent so long working with already, but Shin has cleared out all programs but the ones she's made or uses, performed software housecleaning on it, cleaned the outside thoroughly and then opened it up and cleaned the inside, carefully dis- and re-assembled, which turned out to solve the noise the fan was making. Finally, the keycaps have been replaced with new braille ones.
He copied Helena's game to his new laptop, and to his USB as backup, and the CD in the disk drive of this one still holds it but there's a new file next to it, labelled 'Nurikabe'. Inside is a program that generates 6x6 Nurikabe puzzles, the program itself as much for her to mess around with as the squares it creates, and a similar text file:]
H,
Loved the game, it worked all the way to the end! You've come so far and I can't claim the credit for that. You put in the hard work yourself, after all. I'm looking forward to getting to see what you do next.
Merry Christmas and thank you. For it all. I don't know if you've seen this kind of puzzle before, but I figured you might like it.
It'll be 2000 here soon, won't it? Let's see what the new millennium holds again.
S
[And a small ASCII art of a rabbit at the end. Using his initial like this... it's clever, he can't help smiling.]