Taylor sparked up the joint she had as they pulled away from her home and headed on towards the lake. The song on the radio caught her ear, listening to the music as she very subtly bobbed her head up and down to the beat in the background. Although she loved a good beat, good lyrics won outright, in her opinion anyway.

"I got a hybrid just to be safe. I always forget whether you prefer indicas or sativas. This is sativa dominant, though. Really don't need to be getting all hyped up and paranoid." She said the last part with a bit of embarrassment in her tone, laughing nervously as she took another quick drag before handing it off to Josh. She turned and looked out the window to watch the scenery pass by. For a while, Taylor lost herself to the colors passing through her vision as they drove. Josh's question brought her back into the car. She peered over her shoulder, still turned towards the window to smile at him.

"She's got a good nose when it comes to food. Other than that, she doesn't really care to use it." Taylor looked back at Sadie and laughed, "I'dnt that right, Sadie?"

It wasn't long before they were at the lake. As they pulled in closer, there were many vehicles in view, but one in particular that stuck out to Taylor. Abe's car. 'Shit,' she thought to herself as she grabbed Sadie's leash and unbuckled her seatbelt. Taylor had a bad habit of unbuckling her seatbelt before the car could even be parked. As long as she saw they were in the parking lot and near a place to park, she'd get that sucker off in a heartbeat.



Declan nodded in agreement. They had wasted enough time. He looked down at his shoes and mentally bore his teeth at them. He wished he could duck into the trees and brush behind them and shift into his other form. It would prove so much faster, and although his endurance in his human form was great, it was exceptional as a wolf. Plus, there was nothing like the feeling of the wind through his coarse fur.

He glanced at Finley and rose an eyebrow to himself, wondering what her endurance was like. An inappropriate thought crossed his mind that nearly made him turning bright red before he shook his head to rid of the thoughts. Declan walked beside Finley, nudging her shoulder with his arm playfully. "Think we could speed this up and put us into a few gears higher?" He smirked and looked ahead, adding "If you think you can keep up, that is," looking at her out of the corner of his eye. He figured at least a simple jog wouldn't make too big a difference, but it'd definitely get them there a little faster in the long run. _{No pun intended.}



Tyler looked back at his truck where Dak was now seated in the driver's seat watching his owner protectively, ears perked up and eyes alert. He thought about going back and letting him walk with the two men, but didn't want to have to ask, nor did he want to make the other animals unnerved with a canine walking around. Not with the wilder cousins of Dak's that were terrorizing them during the night hours. Tyler shrugged off Dak's longing looks and followed Mr. Smith to the fields that weren't too far off from the main house. He looked around at all the other animals nearby, but focused his attention on the recently slaughtered animal that still lay on the ground.

He knelt down to get a closer look, and a better scent of his own. He inhaled quietly, but deeply, taking it all in. Death. Something he was quite familiar with, but it never dulled the horrible scent by any means. Tyler stood up, then. Realizing Mr. Smith hadn't answered his last question, he decided to repeat himself to the man. "Have they ever attacked any humans on the property, or just the livestock? And also, sir, I must say moving the animals into the barn at night is probably your best bet. Still be vigilant, though. These wolves, they're smart animals. People tend to think that because they are just that, animals, that they don't have any sense of real thinking or planning.. but they do. Take every precaution necessary."

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Clifford raised a brow as olivia growled toward Abe's car. He chose not to comment, but his hands did stay where he could easily move and move her away from people if he had to. That and he really did not want a fight between a werewolf and others to break out because then he would have to get involved and it was never pleasant when he had to step in.

Cliff then focused in more on the car and felt a rather goofy grin make its way onto his face. He did not answer the text as he did not even notice it with Leo being there. His heels lifting up and down while his eyes watched his witch get out of that car. His arms opened and he was pushed backward a step by the collision of the smaller teenager with him.

Clifford melted into the embrace for a moment, as if he hadn't seen leo for a year. He nuzzled the crook of leo's neck before straightening once he remembered that people were there. He paused then moved back once more to whisper back. "Of course. I can never not forgive you" He straightened again and smiled back before looking at olivia and her friend. Somehow the smile stayed...a rare sight on clifford.

James smiled at the receptionist as she came over and petted the cat, though he'd kind of wished she hadn't. Or, at the very least, had decided on taking her smoke afterwards. He hated the smell of tobacco, and the fresh cigarette scent still lingered on the woman. Still, there was no reason to be rude to her.

"Oh, he's not mine. I think the poor fella was being chased by a bigger cat when a girl saved him. She got herself scratched for her heroics though, hence the visit here." He replied, jerking his head towards the entrance. "I was in here myself about a fortnight ago. Wolf mauling, if that rings any bells." He paused at this, pondering something. Usually some of the best of people to pick up rumours were those working on desks; office work could be extremely tiresome, and when sat right in front of a waiting room of patients with interesting looking injuries, it would be the perfect place to pick up some gossip.

"When I was here last and spoke to a Doctor, he'd said that there'd been a couple of other maulings. Any stick out to you? I hear your Mayor got pretty torn up, but the news round town says it wasn't a wolf?" He asked, feigning slight ignorance. He knew fine well the Mayor hadn't been taken down by an animal, but it would be interesting to see if the woman had seen or heard anything out of the ordinary here.

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Joey eyed the number of vehicles parked by the lakeside. A surefire sign of a crowd.

Guess the rest of the town had the same idea. That or Olivia invited everyone. he mused as he picked out Olivia's Mustang from the assembly of automobiles.

One hand maneuvered the steering wheel while he reached for the blunt in Taylor's hand with the other. "I prefer Indica dominant, ideally, but we can't "investigate" trippin out can we. So, smart move there, won't catch me complaining." he said as took a puff and passed it back Taylor who was laughing,

Joey blew the smoke out his mouth and nodded slowly, the effect of the cannabis slowly starting to take effect. Saide wouldn't be much help in this case.

He pulled up too a desired parking spot and put his car into park. Already Taylor was on the move, leash in hand and seatbelt long since discarded. Something had her on edge. He recognized her habit of early seatbelt removal, but her gaze and sudden response peaked his curiosity. He tried to trace her gaze back to whatever she was looking at but she had long since turned away.

He rubbed his jaw in disappointment and stepped out of the vehicle, it was probably nothing anyway.

God, I need to stop being so nosey.

"Olivia invited a whole lot for this, she wasn't kidding." he called out too Taylor, scoping out the group stationed at the lake.

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@FantasyChic@Infamous Auror There was a trail going along from the back of town hall that would lead up to the silver mine in town, it was the most direct route there. The run would be pretty peaceful, Finley and Declan would occasionally see a wild rabbit or squirrel running along the trail and into some bushes. It was actually fairly relaxing, they would get there with no real problems but once they were at the silver mine Declan would sense the silver coming from the mine.

@Morose Jenna would hear a door to the main entrance of the town hall opening, and a few voices they were more officers most likely going in to grab some more evidence it was the same officers that Finley and Declan saw outside. "So what did we come in here to get anyway again?" One of them asked, as they talked. "The FBI chick wants us to grab the computer as evidence and find out anything else from it I guess." The other officer said giving a slight shrug, there were a set of old looking windows in the office that would be the quickest way to get out without being seen by the officers, luckily they were unlocked.

@BlueSky44 "It's pretty common, mostly kids coming in getting scratched by them ferals out there." He said as he grabbed a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. "This is gonna hurt like a bitch." He warned as he started to pour a bit onto a cloth and started to dab it down onto the wound. Once he finished he took a look at it, seemed that it would be infection free then he started to grab the needle and thread he gently started to sew the flesh back together. About five minutes later it was done as he ran over it with a cloth, and then started to grab a bandage setting it over the stitches. "Just make sure ya clean it nice and good once before bed and once in the morning, and if need change the bandages every few hours." He advised as he grabbed the medical supplies and started to put them back, Lydia was free to go now.

@Peridot The young woman nodded and remembered that actually. "Yes now I remember you, had your dog in the car and you paid me to feed her and all that while you were here." She said with a light smile as she continued to gently pet the sleeping kitten, then she started to try and remember any recent maulings. "Ah yeah there was one about two or maybe three years ago or something, the Johnson girl came in attacked, but when we checked her out aside from the torn bloodied clothes there wasn't much of anything to tend to." She replied, then heard her timer going off and sighed slightly. "Anyway gotta go back doc should be done with your friend." She said before turning around and heading back into the clinic.

@Dragoknighte The search through Riley's room was pretty much fruitless aside from all of the girlie products, and clothes there wasn't anything else that Harry would be able to find in Riley's room. Then there was a knock on the door, when Harry opened it he would see Riley's mother there. "Did you find anything?" She finally asked looking at him, in hopes that there was an answer in her room that the officers had overlooked.

@Infamous Auror Mr. Smith shook his head. "Nah there hasn't been any attack on the farmhands or my family here, we make sure to send everyone home before sundown, just the livestock." He answered and if there was an attack on any of his workers he would have called the police by now. Then he turned his head seeing a jeep coming down the long driveway and instantly recognized that it was his daughter coming back home from work. "Is there anything else?" He asked as Kayla came out of the car and made her way straight towards her father and gave him an instant hug.

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"Yep, no problem kiddo." Abraham said as he watched Leo running off and hugging Clifford and the others that were there, then he noticed Taylor pulling up as well giving her a slight glare, before turning his attention towards his niece. "Well we keep our distance for now from the others so that they can go about their business here." Abe knew that they were outnumbered by the amount of wolves there, and he wasn't going to risk his life or his niece's. Abraham grabbed his cane and started to close the car door and started to make his way towards the woods.

Abe looked over his shoulder at Kosara as they were slowly getting away from the group, he wanted to do his own search and he also wasn't really in the mood to babysit just about everyone there. "I guess we start with where they found the girl's phone for anything." Abe suggested as he continued to walk there was then a trail that he could see which was where they had found Riley's phone. Once he was there he kneeled down to look at the ground then noticed the wolf paw prints in the dirt which were a lot bigger then a regular wolf's looking over at Kosara. "Well got us some prints." He said pointing down into the woods there was a small trail of prints leading deeper into the woods.

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Olivia watched as Abe and Kosara turned and headed down into the woods, grumbling and muttering something under her breath about them, her attention turning back over towards Clifford and then suddenly being hugged tightly by Leo. She smiled seeing Clifford's smile she hadn't really seen him smile like that before which was a first for her. "Well good afternoon you two lovebirds." Olivia said with a light laugh as she heard another car coming up the road and spotted that it was Taylor's car. She was really glad to see her friend there as Olivia moved over to Taylor's car.

She walked over and gave Taylor a hug the moment she opened the door, and then smiled towards Jo. "So how was the drive up here you two?" Olivia asked, she was curious on how their little time alone together was. Then she instantly picked up the scent of cannabis from the two of them and backed up slightly. "You two not gonna get high on me are you?" Olivia asked teasingly and saw Sadie in the car as well and reached over to gently pet her.

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Finley mocked shock. "Did you just challenge me? And call out my skills? It's on. Get ready to have your butt kicked." Part of her mind worried about Declan's asthma, but a jog should be fine. The path is the most direct route there and it would be simple enough. She got into position and readied herself. "Ok, we'll go on three. Ready? And...THREE!" She said as she took a head start.

As she jogged, she appreciated the nature around her. If she had the time she would start taking pictures out here. As much as she disliked the place, it could be beautiful in its own way. Wildlife ran around her as she jogged. She looked back to see if Declan was following her, was mad, was getting tired, or all of the above. "What was that about keeping up?"

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“Question is... who they belong to.” She said with rather low voice as they found the rather obvious wolfpaw prints train that was left at the supposed place of disappearance.” Might as well follow them before someone else stumbles onto their source.” Kosara added with a smile. She carried some pretty well sealed up wolf's bane just in case. Usually on a hunt she'd make sure it's well applied to let's say her clothing just in case, but given now she had no way in knowing who was what an who might be involved, she chose to withhold the thing just for now.

“What if... it's too late for her to come back?” Kosara asked Abe eventually. It was clear werewolves lived among the town for a while now probably among other creatures, but it didn't mean all wolves were safe to leave. This seemed a lot bigger than a simple abduction, something else was at play too and she wasn't too happy with it.

” We should silvercoat some chains once we return.” She added with a frown.

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Under the bed was as much of a disappointment as inside the pillowcase and on top of the doorway. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Seemed like his only lead from the room was the diary. Rather a disappointing occurrence, but not an insurmountable setback. Looks like he was going to have to go to the lake anyways, despite it being the most searched location in the entire town and its surrounding areas.

"You can come in. I believe I've found all I can for the time being," he called to the voice on the other side of the door. He rose from the lying position and quickly brushed off any errant dirt or hair that stuck to his suit. While the information he found from Riley's diary was likely a key part of this entire case, there was nothing definite that he'd be able to report, if asked for any solid leads.

Futhermore, from the sound of things it was sensitive information for the family and he'd try to avoid unsettling them if possible. On top of that, the fewer people who knew secrets, the less likely something would spill over to someone he wouldn't want alerted to his action. So he resolved that he wouldn't inform the Walkers of what he'd learned until doing so became prudent.

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Leo relaxed quite a bit when he felt Cliff nuzzle into his neck as if all of the stress and worries of the day just disappeared. He glanced around the lake only to see Olivia heading over to greet yet another car that had pulled up and parked. "Sure is a popular spot today. Planning on doing some searching for Riley or something?" He wondered for a brief moment how he could have been so stupid to even think about leaving before his thoughts strayed to Riley. Would a locator spell work if the person was dead? And even if it did, he would have to have something that belonged to the victim. He sighed and just leaned against his boyfriend again, not wanting to remove himself quite yet from the embrace.

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Jenna paused for a moment as she heard the officers entering. A simple text wouldn't be enough to make them go away and while she could come up with a plausible explanation for being inside, she didn't want to try her luck any further. She needed to get to the shop across town and learn more about what exactly Mayor Ryder had gotten himself mixed up with. No helpful ghosts were around to give her hints as to her next move, but she spotted a set of windows. She could probably climb through those and slip away. She'd just need to hope no cops were waiting outside.

It was a toss up as to whether or not it'd be better to get caught inside or outside. Deciding to try her luck, Jenna made a quiet dash for the windows, feeling relieved when she found they were unlocked. Opening up the window slowly, she tried to avoid it creaking, imagining that no one had oiled the hinges in ages. It seemed like the type of cleaning task that would be neglected. Once open, Jenna then carefully hoisted herself up and climbed out of it, hoping that she had been fast enough to avoid the officers finding her.

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Clifford blinked at the love bird comment and realized he was smiling. He never smiled. The smile faded away, but there was still a hint of it there, like it couldn't quite entirely leave his face with Leo there. He continued to hold leo as if he didn't quite want to release him just yet. He gave a shrug as leo spoke.

"Yeah I guess. Though....lot of people" Cliff was already feeling awkward. He had expected to not be dealing with a search party, but that is what he got for not paying full attention to everything. "What do you want to do?" As in how did he want to go about everything. Cliff was fine...mostly fine as long as leo was there to be his grounding point. Otherwise he would be imitating a statue once more.

Cliff was still aware that he had his arms wrapped around leo, but he was not really on the side of caring about it anymore. If they were supposed to move then he would break off the embrace, but until then...he would enjoy holding leo for as long as he could.

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She looked away as the doctor dabbed the peroxide on her leg. Lydia had to stop herself from screaming out, and it reminded her why she usually didn't care much for clinics. They could hurt like crazy depending on the injury. She kept her eyes from looking at the cut as he stitched it up, since looking at it generally made it hurt worse. Lydia let out a sigh of relief when he had finally placed the bandage on her leg, now she could go and see what that letter was all about.

"Thank you," she said as she walked out the door. Her leg was still a little sore, but at least now it wasn't bleeding all over the place. She passed the woman as she exited the clinic, and looked over and saw James with his dog and the kitten. Lydia realized that if she was going to be carrying it around, she might as well name it. She had no idea what to call it though, she would have to come up with something later. "Ready ta get goin'?" she asked him.

Taylor spotted the lot of people standing around, too. It surely had turned into quite a gathering. Why Liv.. why? Taylor thought to herself, pinching the bridge of her nose. She shook her head and looked over at Josh lazily, starting to feel the effects of what they'd smoked on the ride over. "I really wish she hadn't." Taylor frowned slightly again at Abe's car, then looked back over at the group and looked directly at Olivia as they approached. "With just the three of us, it's a gathering as it is. Like they say, 'Two's a party, three's a crowd.'."

As they parked, Taylor opened the door and got out to reach back and get Sadie but was suddenly attacked with a hug. Something she wasn't the best at, but she still turned halfway around in Olivia's arms to hug her properly. Once they broke it off, Taylor ran a hand through her hair as Olivia asked her a question. She simply smirked, gently smacking Olivia's arm with the back of her hand. "There's no getting high when you're already on Cloud 9." It took Taylor a second, but she suddenly turned a bright red at the thought of the other potential meaning to what she'd said.

She mentally shook her head and reached back to let Sadie out, grabbing her by the collar as she shut the door and locked her dog between her legs so she could put her harness on. Once it was on, she snapped her fingers near her side at Sadie to let her dog know she wanted her at her side, which she followed obediently. She snapped her fingers again and pointed to the ground, having Sadie sit down. Taylor looked back up at Olivia, then at Clifford, Leo and Amanda before turning back to Olivia. She could smell another wolf, a fresh scent. Taylor mouthed to her friend, 'Who's the other wolf, Liv?'



Declan smirked at her playful, defensive questions. "Maybe, but you're not gonna do anything about it!" His eyebrow raised as she got herself ready, waiting for her to countdown. He didn't bother getting ready, he knew he'd beat her, although.. she did catch him by surprise when she took off after completely skipping numbers 1 and 2. He shook his head and laughed, pivoting into a different direction than her. He'd run the treeline and make her think she left him in the dust. Once he saw her stop, he did as well, but a bit ahead of her. She turned around and asked about keeping up, but would see he was nowhere behind. He popped out from the trees, non-chalantly leaning against one with a charming smile trying to hide the fact he was kind of out of breath. "You were saying?"

James' brow furrowed ever so slightly in confusion as the woman talked. He could have sworn he had bribed the nurse who had given him a shot, not the receptionist? Writing it off to him just being delirious from pain and then morphine, James listened on to what the woman continued to say. Again, his brow furrowed, but in confusion of something else. An attack, with no wounds? That didn't make sense.

Thanking the receptionist for her time, James remembered the surname "Johnson" for future reference. Not helpful, considering how widely used that name was. Still, Red Lake was a small enough town, and if she was local, maybe be could find her and ask some questions. Which questions, he didn't quite know yet, but he was sure he'd come up with something. As soon as Lydia exited the building and met him, his curiosity spiked once again. Handing her the kitten back with a smile, James glanced at her leg, glad to see she had got it sorted so soon. In most hospitals, you had to wait a good couple of hours to get something that minor seen to. Again, Red Lake was tiny, so chances are their clinic was near empty on most days. He just hoped they'd given her some shots; rabies, or at the very least tetanus. Lord only knew what kind of disease that cat was carrying.

"I hope you know where that address is. I'm itching to investigate!" James said with a playful grin as he untied Allie, his dog jumping around him energetically as his excitement was contagious.

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"Don't let it nag you too much, hey, the more people we have, the more people we get to outrun if shit gets hot." Joey yawned over at Taylor. He glanced at and approaching Olivia; he actually approved of her efforts. There was strength in numbers.

"To late for that, Liv. Hey, you need someone high to give you a birds eye view, we got you." Joey chortled as he slid his jacket off his shoulders and tossed it into the back seat of the car. Underneath he sported an iconic red and black Jordan jersey; that of his would be hero. This coupled with a pair Jordan 1.5 Retro Bred sneakers and Joey's outfit for the day was complete and ready to marketed. A man had to be looking good in any occasion, even during an investigation into the kidnapping of a girl. It was principle.

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@FantasyChic@Infamous Auror Finley and Declan make it to the mine with no real problems at all, but once they were there Declan would instantly sense the silver coming from the mine, and he would feel slightly weaker then he normally would be. There was some really old mining equipment that looked like it hadn't been used in a really long time. There was a rusted old mine cart and rusted tracks that would lead down into the mine. However on one of the trees they would notice some kind of claw marks on a tree, it looked like it could have been caused by a bear or maybe even a wolf. There wasn't anything else that would be of interest, other then the old equipment.

@Morose Once Jenna had climbed out of the window the two officers entered Mayor Ryder's office, they knelt down and started to unplug the computer and the monitor as well. Looking over towards the front of town hall she would notice Jeanna's car parked a few feet away from the building and see her climbing into her car before driving off heading in the direction towards the B&B she was staying at. The shop would be on the other side of town and there wouldn't be any problems getting there. Once Jenna had gotten to the shop she would notice Andrew looking around at the shop that she was intended on trying to find out what was going on with Mayor Ryder and what was in his desk.

@BlueSky44 @Peridot The kitten instantly perked up when it heard Lydia's voice the kitten seemed to have taken a liking towards her as it climbed into Lydia's arms mewing at her. When Lydia looked at the address it was on the outskirts of town, it would have been hard to see due to the tree cover when going in or out of town. It was pretty hard to spot from the road, the walk there would just be following up the main road out of town.

@Dragoknighte Mrs. Walker gave a slight nod. "Well let me know if you see or find or if you need anything else." She said before turning around and started to head back down the stairs and went back to work, sitting down at her desk and started to go over some paper work. Then he could hear Jeanna's voice speaking to Mrs. Walker, saying hello before making her way up towards her room to do some of her own work there.

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Abraham turned his head to look up at his niece as she asked who or what made the paw prints and gave a slight shrug. "It could be one of those kids, or it could be another wolf in the area." Abe said as he stood up stretching his back slightly and coughed ever so slightly before turning to face Kosara. "We will find the girl don't worry." He said reassuring his niece before turning off and started to make his way down the woods following the trail. "I got some silver chains back at the house, but didn't really think about bringing them with us." Abe said giving a slight shrug.

As he walked he stopped for a moment and looked at a tree as he noticed a few claw marks going along the bark, which looked to be the same as the ones from the crime scene back at town hall. "Seems that its been here, or marking territory." Abraham said taking his hat off tucking it under his arm. "So if you were a wolf why would you kidnap a young girl?" He asked wondering what was going on, they didn't usually take people, they would just leave a body in their wake.

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"I'm sure the two of you have been on cloud nine since I left you two alone back at the café." Olivia said with a slight smirk when Taylor gave her a slight smack on her arm. "So you two gonna give me any details?" Olivia teased once more looking over at Sadie and kneeled down and started to pet the dog and gave her a friendly smile. She always did love dogs, then turned her attention over towards the others as she thought about what to do. "Well I guess we all should split up, cover more ground that way?" Olivia suggested.

Then she caught Taylor mouthing who the other wolf was, she looked around for a moment eyeing Clifford for a moment though she never had any proof that he was one or not. She did sometimes get the wolf smell from him, but still didn't have anything to go on before turning her attention back to Taylor and gave a slight shrug. "So how shall we go about splitting up or staying together?" Olivia asked everyone else that was there.

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"I'll be sure to do so, Mrs. Walker." Harry said, addressing the adoptive mother's concerns. After that, he left Riley's room, no doubt passing by the FBI agent on his way out. He would give her a brief nod in passing, but nothing that would invite more conversation from his part. He needed to get to the next hotspot for investigation: the lake.

Armed with new knowledge, he had a better idea for what to look for while at the lake. The vast majority of the people there were searching for clues as to where the missing girl could have gone, but for him the actual search parties were his leads. Chances were that if one of those people weren't actually the special someone Riley had been meeting than they either knew the person or would know something that would allow him to narrow down who the mystery (wo)man was. Red Lake was a small town, and no secret would remain secure if somebody truly wished to learn of it.

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Finley turned around and didn't see Declan there. She was confident in her lead. She felt almost bad about smoking him so badly.

That is...until he materialized in front of her.

If she didn't like him so much, she would be incredibly pissed off. How the hell was he that fast? Sure, she cheated, but she wasn't out of shape by any stretch of the imagination. Did he take a shortcut? That was cheating! (Calling a spade a spade...)

She took a few deep breaths before speaking. "You're gonna have to tell me how a guy with asthma that can't stand in a dusty room for more than a few minutes is able to outrun someone with a head start. What are you, some type of animal?" she said it jokingly, of course. She observed her surroundings and looked for Jenna. She didn't see the girl, but perhaps they got there quicker than she thought. Either way, she sent a quick text to Jenna

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Lydia laughed as the kitten crawled into her arms. She liked the little cat, since she was still carrying it around, and it stilled seemed to like her, her mind seemed to be made up for her for the cat to stay with her. A name would be needed for it, and her mind had yet to be made up on the subject. She scratched the little guy behind the ear before she pulled out the letter to look at it.

"The address is jus' outside of town. We should be able t' reach it if we follow thuh main road here. It is kind of hard to find, but we should be alright if we look hard enough," she said as she started heading down the road in the direction of the address. It was going to be a long walk, but hopefully things worked out in their favor.

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"Seems rather new all things considered." Kosara commented seeing the marks in the bark. There was much unsettling about teh whole situation. She made sure her sword and gun were a easily accessible as she frowned at Abe's question.

"Back in the Balkans I had a case where a wolf had a bright idea to turn as many people as he can. Preferably younger females... Moron figured he'd get himself a harem of his own personal killers..." She stated." Could be similar... just decided on her for a mate? Could be it's a ploy to infect her and then release her in town as sleeper agent of sorts too." The huntress mentioned." Or it could be one of the countless other possibilities, take your pick. THough the fact a body's not showing at least indicates there's a chance she's still living... in one way or another."

"If she's infected..." Kosara started saying and looked at Abe." We cannot simply allow her to return to the town. She could be out of control, those instincts aren't easy to control from what I know and especially if you are fresh wolf who lacks the self control and is not used to it."