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Jayden


Entering the room, he paused and looked around, and there was Dizzy. Jayden squatted and lightly rubbed her head between and behind her ears before picking her up and holding her in the position to which they'd both become accustomed.

"Where have you been, you damned cat?" he asked softly, his tone one of affection.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She purrs softly to him, essential in training which seems to be going well. If not for this burden crisis she would be very content.

She notices with satisfaction that the spirit is still with Jayden, which does a lot to alleviate her former concerns. And she casts her eye around for Shadow's shadow.

"Not sure if there is anything else to see around here?"

She is speaking to both spirit and Shadow.

"Jayden seems to know something is up, specifically with regard to you. Just as a heads up. He is asking too many questions to not figure it out before long. I can't keep lying to him." The grandfather spirit informed Tiger.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

"Maybe he is cleverer than I gave him credit for?"

She looks up at her burden, reminding herself that she had contemplated letting him know earlier, if she could have found a way to do so. And with this emergency and communication via the spirit possible, it may be a game-changer.

She will need to think on this.

Jayden


"Maybe you are more than just a cat," he muttered as their eyes met.

"This is some really weird s***, Dizzy."

With that thought an alarm sounds down off the corridor as some patient's machine started screaming. The nurse jumps up and runs off down the hall.

Jayden


The alarm caused Jayden to flinch and probably disturb the cat he was holding.

"Sorry, Dizzy," he said, staring off in the direction the nurse had gone.

"Didn't mean to startle you."

Shadow

He saw no merit or need to revert to a fully three-dimensional form whilst still deep in a vast Burden place of stench and pain, nor any great need to reveal himself to, or even acknowledge, the younger cat's Burden. Nonetheless, he followed, commenting to the Spirit,

"If you let it know the truth, it will likely break it. We do not tolerate spirits harming Burdens."

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

**What is that squealing noise?!**

She is immediately tense as the female burden jumps up and her own burden reacts in surprise. But of course being tense is to be prepared to react.. not a sign of being startled...

Perhaps they should go and see?

She jumps down, ready to head out the door.

Jayden


"Dizzy!" he called out, reaching for the cat as she jumped from his arms but coming up short.

"Damned cat."

The nurse hurried down the hall a half dozen rooms, before opening one and entering. When the door opened the noise of the alarm was much louder. In a moment it had stopped ringing so was much more palatable to sensitive feline ears.

The woman was leaning over an older burden in a bed. The woman was obviously in distress her breath panting out and hissing in. She was slightly blue in her lips and pale.

Both the cats can see that her breath is being drawn from her, though where it is going? Where is her energy being siphoned off to? Isn't clear.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She stands staring at the woman in the bed. Something is going on! She extends all her senses to see if she can tell where the source of the problem is, using her eyes, her ears and her nose.

[OOC using preternatural senses]

Shadow

Nimbly, the shadow of a cat leapt up, looking to get a better angle on where the energy was being drawn to, and if need be distract it with a faceful of incorporeal claws and teeth.

Tiger's senses told her that it the energy was being drawn up and out of the room through the wall.

Shadow didn't see a force he could offer teeth and claws, yet he could feel something was there, now that he was closer to the burden in the bed. The force extracting her energy was almost palpable.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

Her head turns and she looks at the wall to determine if it is an outside wall in which case she will try to find a see through wall (window) that might allow her to see further. If on the other hand it is an internal wall, she will try to find a way to the other side.

"The life is being drawn through that wall."

Shadow and the spirit are informed.

"We need to see where it goes from there."

Shadow

Time to see how 'Almost' it really was. The shadow leapt to intercept the path of force, to get between it and the burden, see if he could sever it with the equally insubstantial means at his disposal.

The wall was an internal wall, though the energy was going upward, so possibly on the floor above would be a better place to seek knowledge. Though this thought is interrupted by the energy suddenly cutting off.

Shadow leaps into the air, and his insubstantial form blocks the energy draw for just a moment. Yet it seems to disrupt the effect.

The woman immediately takes a deep breath, that isn't panting, and not labored. The nurse nods as if something she had done with the hanging bag contraption had any effect at all.

[OOC: 1 Fate point to Shadow.]

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

As the energy suddenly ceases, she looks around to see if the burden is still alive.. and catches Shadow in mid flight.

"Oh well done Shadow! Are you OK? I think it was coming from upstairs. Wanna take a look?"

Shadow

He landed on the shadow of all four paws, then briefly paused to clean one.

"Unlike Burdens, our kind are much better at withstanding that sort of thing. They have no defence against it, worse than still-blind kittens. Never be afraid to get between a Burden and a threat. Let's see if we can get the source before it runs away."

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

Well she is learning which is what she hoped to do. Shadow is both wise and brave.

"OK, let's find the stairs."

She assumes the spirit will tell her burden what he needs to know, and she turns and heads out back through the door looking for stairs.

Jayden


As usual, he had no idea what the hell was going on as Dizzy first ran toward the hospital bed, then turned and scampered out of the room. Jayden rolled his eyes briefly ceilingward and then followed the little cat from the hospital room.

As he left the room, he glanced back over his shoulder, hoping the patient was doing all right.

Shadow

With Tiger visible, he stuck to her shadow as she went.

The nurse seemed to be much relieved as she worked on the woman. It was clear to Jayden that the crisis had been averted.

Tiger knew the closest stairwell was the quickest way up, but it would require the assistance of a burden.

As Jayden followed his Damn Cat, his grandfather's voice said, in his head, "follow, and assist, but stay out of their way. Whatever it is they are confronting it is likely to be dangerous."

Jayden


"What? Who? You mean the cats?" he asked the voice in his head. Then he shook his head and rolled his eyes briefly ceilingward.

Of course he was talking about the cats. Who else was there he could be talking about?

Assist them how? he mentally asked as he followed the cats out of the room.

[OOC What assistance is required for the stairs? ]