[ She gives a rueful scoff at Bull's completion of her sentence--that was much more tactfully put than "a boy at least ten years my junior is freaking terrifying." ]

Yeah. That.

But I didn't find anything--not on the map itself, at least. It did lead us to an abandoned research facility... I could take a look into it, see what I can find. He went in by himself and told me to scram, but I stuck around and hid just in case. He came out with something after a while. I don't know what it was.

The whole thing was pretty shady, and--I don't know, but Tetsuo doesn't strike me as the type to be snooping around for things on his own like that. Someone sent him to retrieve this thing.