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Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

As her burden leaves the room, curiosity gets the better of her and she jumps down from the window ledge, taking a moment to stretch and then sharpen her claws on the carpet. She heads for the door and then backs off as he arrives with the cage, her back arching.

So many concerns flip through her head. Is he giving her away? Sending her back to that place? Oh no, not to the man that looks at her teeth, sticks needles in her? And she had thought they were making progress.

But then he puts in down and heads for the door, encouraging her to go with him?

She is very confused now. Perhaps some dark magic has affected him? But she is curious to find out what he is up to and to protect him if she can.. and whilst she is not in that cage, she at least has a chance to escape if things go wrong.

Carefully skirting around the cage and giving it a look of disdain as she does so, she follows him to the door, wondering what will happen next.

Maybe her burden is like Soot's burden? Maybe he intends to spend time with her outdoors, rather than inside? That would be good.

Jayden


He opened the door and held it for her and then closed and locked it behind them.

Jayden walked along the walkway between his apartment building and the adjacent one, making his way to the complex parking lot, double clicking a button on the base of his Ford car key. A couple of answering clicks and the headlights briefly lit on a rather dinged, older tan Ford Fusion.

He opened the car door and gestured for her to enter.

"Up and at 'em, Dizzy."

[OOC See pics in Gallery, you live in a house! ]

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She follows him out, strolling down the path, her tail waving as she does. When they reach the car and he opens the door, she looks up at him as if to ask if this is a trick.

Then she jumps in, makes her way to the front passenger seat and curls up, a little unsure of what is going down.

Of course he doesn't know everything she can do...

[OOC: Oh well... I guess I slipped up there, but it shouldn't hurt anything.]

Jayden

Jayden slid into the front seat, fastened his seat belt and started the car.

"I hope you like walking in the woods," he said as he reached over and lightly scratched between her ears.

Then he pulled out into the street and headed out toward the woods where the boy was supposed to have disappeared.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

As the vehicle moves forward she digs her claws into the upholstery to steady herself but the ride does get smoother and she starts to relax. She feels better too as he scratches her head, maybe he is not going to put her in that place again. It would be ironic though as she was helping all of those other animals to escape yesterday.

She smells the air, which seems to be gushing in through a series of holes off to one side. Doesn't smell like town. Fresher.

This might be interesting..

Jayden


A few minutes later, they arrived near the woods and Jayden took a turn to the right on a small road which headed into the forest. He'd decided to park at one of the picnic sites (middle-east of the wood unless there's one closer to the suspected spot of the boy's disappearance) and walk a bit from there.

Close on to the picnic spot, he saw two police cars parked alongside the road and stopped to speak with the officers. He opened his car door, reached over to pick up the cat and put her on his left forearm which he held crooked along his waist, with her head at his hand.

He walked up to the policemen, left fingers scratching at Dizzy's chin.

"Hello, officers. Any word on the missing boy?"

The younger man eyed the cat on Jayden's arm and a small frown crosses his features. It is gone in a second as if it had never been there. The older man with grey hair and a paunch says "nothing no. Like the boy never existed, which of course is darn suspicious. We will find something, some sign of where he got off to, but so far we haven't. You out for a stroll?"

Jayden


"Yeah, me'n the cat here," he said. "Thought it couldn't hurt, ya know, one more person wandering the woods, looking out for the boy."

"Whereabouts was he last seen?"

The officer nodded in understanding. He and his little sister were playing down near a creek over there." He pointed slightly north and west down slope. "The woods pretty much extend north, south, and we'd of here. Not like it is a wilderness, yet there is a lot of open ground and critters. You keep going west up the hills and you run out of trees but it is even less hospitable up there. Definitely more than a day's hike." The other officer remained noncommittal.

Jayden


He nodded slowly, chewing lightly at the inside of his left cheek as he thought and continued to stroke Dizzy's chin.

"Yep, can't hurt to have one - or two," he said chin gesturing toward the little cat, "out looking for him."

Jayden smiled at the two policemen and headed off just west of north.

"You let me know," he said to the cat, "if you want to get down and walk."

Tiger-Lily

She is quite content to be carried. Jayden is supporting her well and she feels safe and secure. And it is interesting. The woods are a place of special interest to her and she is very much at home in this domain. She had intended to scout out the area at some point and her burden is helping her do that. Perhaps he is more intuitive than she had thought.

So she looks around with interest, looking for anything out of place, any sign of any dark magic. If she sees anything of interest she will wriggle and then jump down but until then it was safe and warm where she is.

The walk was pleasant for awhile. Downhill, flat ground, however uneven, it still was pretty nice. Eventually they come to a small stream. It is obviously a run off from the larger river off in the woods that they saw on the map. Here it is quite small and meanders rather than runs over the rocks. Perfect place for a boy and his sister to play. In fact they spot one little bit of mud where a partial track of a child's sneaker might have been. But no obvious sign of any children here. Also no sign of where he might have gone. The sister as they know was discovered and is home safe.

Jayden


Jayden enjoyed the walk and paused to rest and look around when they reached the stream. When he spotted the possible track, he squatted on his haunches close beside it and peered down at the displaced mud.

"What do you think of that, Dizzy?"

Tiger-Lily

Although scent is much better developed in the canine species, she has a better nose than humans.. and better eyes.. and well, the list is endless. So she jumps dow to take a better look and to scent the area.

She has no idea what Jayden has said but he does seem interested in the print in the mud. Maybe they are working together.. in a way...

Her nose can tell the boy was here as suspected. But the scent is mixed with men, dogs, and days past.

It is her keen eyes that spot something over by a tree. She spots a few bleached bones of a prey animal.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She sniffs at the print and around it. There were others here. Were they looking for the boy or did they take him. She sniffs again at the print so as to commit the scent to memory.

Looking around, she spots something over by a tree. Tail waving daintily in the air, she saunters over to see what it is.

The bones of prey laid out in a ritualistic fashion. Exactly why wasn't clear. It wasn't a ward as near as she could tell. But it was a larger prey, a wood rat which would provide some strength to whatever working was used. It was relatively near the tree where the girl was supposed to have napped when her brother disappeared.

Jayden


Jayden arose from where he'd been squatting on his haunches, grunting as his left knee popped, and followed Dizzy over to the tree where she seemed to be inspecting something.

"You find something there, Dizzy?"

Tiger-Lily

She is clearly concerned and wary about the bones she has found, circling them so she can view all the angles.. but also keeping her distance.

She isn't sure what they are. Perhaps they were the basis for some sort of magic?

She doesn't want to leave them like they are and she doesn't want Jayden touching them as he doesn't know what he is doing and it is her job to protect him. So she suddenly pounces, landing close to them and smacking down a paw on them to disrupt them whilst leaping away again, watching to see if anything happens.

Jayden


He cocked his head slightly to one side as he watched the cat and tried to determine just what she was doing but, when she suddenly pounced, he was startled enough to take a step back.

"You okay there, girl?"

The bones spin apart flashing in the dappled light. But nothing obvious happens. It would seem whatever magic they had been used in, had expired.

The forest as if responding to whatever it is the cat is doing becomes completely silent.

Tiger-Lily

She looks up as he speaks to her wishing that humans could communicate properly, all this guesswork makes her head hurt.

Then she becomes aware of the quiet and head up, she looks around sniffing the air, worried in case there is a threat. She should be more careful when she has her burden here.

Jayden


Responding to the cat's actions, Jayden looked around, unconsciously copying Dizzy's motions.

"Got quiet all of a sudden, didn't it."

The shadows became longer and the dark colder. The forest seemed to grow closer together. The silence grew quieter if that could be said.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She doesn't like this. There is something going on here, and maybe more than she can tackle on her own. She considers her options. She can protect herself with magic but do nothing for her burden.. and that was the big issue. She could not lose another one.

Would wards work on him? Did she have time to create any?

Maybe she should just try to herd him back to the metal thing? Or run away, would he follow?