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Jayden


Suddenly the woods began to grow dark and cooler and Jayden looked up, tilting his head right and left to see if it was getting cloudy, that perhaps a storm was approaching, but he couldn't get a clear sight line through the trees.

He looked back down at the cat and again settled onto his haunches. It occurred to him that the cat suddenly looked taut, perhaps nervous or scared.

"You okay, Dizzy?" He reached a hand out toward her.

"Want me to hold you?"

She suspects that a ward would protect them both if she has time to create it, and if she can keep her burden inside of it.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She doesn't know how much time she has or how quickly this thing can move. She has to protect her burden first and foremost but she wants to survive too to report back to the others.

Suddenly she darts out of sight into the undergrowth and once in cover goes invisible. Then she emerges and starts to work her magic as quickly as she can hoping that her burden will stay still or she can entice him to her just as she finishes the circle.

Jayden


And then she was gone, darting so quickly into the underbrush that he'd barely caught a glimpse of the movement.

"Dizzy! Hold up there!" Jayden called out and took a couple of steps in the direction in which she'd disappeared, pushing some limbs aside and leaning over to get a better sightline underneath the low hanging tree limbs.

"You damn cat! Come back here!"

The little car had obviously gotten spooked. She was no where to be seen in the undergrowth.

Tiger-Lily begins her working.

Jayden


Thrashing about in the undergrowth wouldn't help, he decided after a moment. She was too little, too fast; he'd never find her that way.

After a few moments worry, Jayden squatted back down on his haunches and began to call her in what he hoped was a compelling voice.

"Dizzy, come back, little girl."

Tiger-Lily is able to complete a ward. Though she still needed prey to solidify it. For some strange reason the prey seem to have become scarce. Her magic will help a little, but to really work it needed sacrifice.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

No prey. Not good.

She has another look and scents around in the undergrowth but if she doesn't find something quickly she will have to become visible and move back to her burden who seems to be needing her. Understandable really.

Jayden


He almost yelled at her, but even he knew you don't do that with a cat, so he continued to call out her name softly.

It bothered Jayden somehow that he cared so much about a pet he didn't even like.

Just as quickly as it had started, the clouds that they couldn't see, must have moved on. The dark forest got lighter, and warmer. It was as if whatever had just happened, hadn't.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She feels the change almost before the clouds start to move away. Not sure if it was anything she had done, unlikely, but it has gone which is the main thing. Back in the undergrowth, she becomes visible and then appears looking tentative, moving towards her burden.

He had behaved pretty well considering, She rewards him by rubbing around him. Her mother always said you should reward good behaviour. It is the only way burden's learn.

Jayden


Jayden found himself relieved, still somewhat surprisingly, when the little cat reappeared and started circling him and head bumping his ankles. He reached down and rubbed between her ears.

"You feel better now, Dizzy?"

The returning of the sun and warmth didn't completely erase the feelings of oddness. Yet the pair seemed alone in the little clearing next to a burbling brook. It also indicated that time was passing and they had learned precious little.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

It seems like he has accepted the reward and accepts his caress in return. She isn't sure what to do next. There is something here as that did seem to be a warning. Venturing on could put her burden at risk. This might be better handled by the others cats. She isn't sure though that her burden is well enough trained to behave yet.

She can try.

She heads off towards the large noisy metal object (car) to see if he will follow.

Jayden


He levered himself to an upright position, grunting as his left knee popped with the movement and turned to let his eyes follow her.

She was heading for the car.

Jayden shook his head and frowned, then shrugged and followed her, stopping alongside his car and cocking his head to one side to look down at her.

"So what now, Dizzy?"

The parking lot was even more deserted now that some time had passed. There was still a lone police car and the two officers who were sitting and talking. They gave him a nod, but didn't get out of the vehicle.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

Why is he waiting? He must know she cannot open the doors. But at least he has followed her which is definite progress. She decides to talk to him even though she knows he won't understand the meaning. Maybe the tone?

**Need to go home. Open the door.**

Of course this is a series of small meows.

Jayden


He tossed the cops a quick wave and looked down, frowning, at the cat.

"I thought we were going to look for the boy," he grumped and then opened the car door.

Jayden wasn't sure why he knew she wanted to go home, but somehow he knew that he knew.

Once the cat was in the car, he climbed in himself, hooked his seatbelt and started the engine.

"Home... right?"

Once the doors were shut, even before it had started out of the parking lot the weird feelings started to get even better. They had improved with every step away from that clearing. Yet in the car isolated away from whatever it was, it seemed better, almost as if it had never even happened.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She settles down on the seat, curling up and closing her eyes. She is pleased with her burden and also very pleased to have removed him from danger. Now she is thinking.

She must go and report this.

Then.. how did her burden know to go there..?

She opens one eye and looks at him.

Jayden


He glanced over at the cat just as she opened an eye and looked at him.

"Ah... caught you peeking there," he said as he reached out and stroked her head, dividing his attention between the road and his companion.

"What we gonna do when we get home, Dizzy? I thought we were going to go look for the kid?"

Or that he was going to look for the young boy. Jayden couldn't decide just who was making the decisions on what they were doing.

"Damn cat," he muttered.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy


She rubs her head against his hand, enjoying the caress.

Of course she has no idea what he is saying. But she is thinking.

Thinking that maybe there is magic for understanding human noises? That maybe there is a way she can put a ward ON her burden but he wears so many different outer layers and they are always changing? Thinking that once she has her burden back in his den, she needs to ward the place to keep him safe. Thinking that she needs to go tell the others.

A cat's life is just so full of responsibilities..

Jayden


A few minutes later, they arrived back at his modest domicile and Jayden got out and held the door for the cat, then made his way inside.

"So... what next, Dizzy?" he asked after checking and filling her water bowl.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She is pleased to see that her burden's first thought is for her welfare. He is responding well and she is beginning to feel comfortable here.

In encouragement, she moves over to her bowl and laps at the water. Then she heads over to the door and meows. She has things to do, wards to set and cats to inform.

Jayden


One eyebrow quirked upward and he stood there, hands on hips for a long moment as he looked at the big-eyed little cat.

"Just got back inside and now you want out again?" He rolled his eyes briefly ceilingward and then shrugged, walked to the door and opened it.

"Yes, your majesty," he said, gesturing for her to do as she pleased, "who am I to argue with you?"