“Shall we head down there then?”

Rithrynn peered down at Kathlin. The Night Elf sucked on her lips while furrowing her brows, gently shaking her head.

"No... not yet at least. There is one more thing that I'd like to get before we embark on our girlhunt." Rithrynn said with a thoughtful expression, seemingly deep in her own thoughts.

"What's that?"

"Transport."

*

Seconds later, Rithrynn and Kathlin were passing through the main level hallways and corridors of Sharon's house, the human having to skip to keep up with the Night Elf's long strides. Counting the doors that they passed, Rithrynn suddenly stopped at one of the guest rooms.

"Here we are. Alright, you stay outside." Rithrynn warned Kathlin, before the Night Elf opened the door; revealing a guest room occupied by three large nightsabers that instinctively turned their heads to look at the newcomers. Their eyes seemed to ignore Rithrynn, and instead gazed at Kathlin with a predatorial instinct.
The room around them was a mess. Tables had been flipped, books lay strewn around, and the queen sized bed in the middle was occupied by a white nightsaber with black stripes. Said nightsaber had also apparently torn whatever sheet and mattress had been in the bed to shreds, what with feathers and ruined cloth filling almost half the room. There were also bits of flesh and bones covering parts of the room from a butchered pig carcass that had been dropped in there earlier.

Eying the biggest nightsaber, the white one in the bed; Rithrynn went down on her knees before extending a hand.

"Heeeeere kitty kitty, come on!" Rithrynn said with the most adorable, cute voice she had. The white nightsaber merely reared its head at her, before it lazily dropped down into the bed again.
"Dammit, Nisha. I said come here!"

Rithrynn cute features quickly grew darker as the lazy nightsaber seemed to much rather continue to sleep in the bed than venture out in the snow outside. Having grown tired of Nisha's disobedience, Rithrynn let out a huff before she marched over to the bed. Grabbing the nightsaber by its tail, Rithrynn channeled all the might she had to suddenly pull the rather surprised Nisha out of the bed with one swift, decisive yank!
As Nisha fell out of the bed, the other two nightsabers immediately leaped off the floor and onto the bed where they collided into each other; and a fierce fight broke out between the two large predators that caused feathers and scraps of cloth to fly in every direction.

Nisha let out a ferocious growl as it lashed its head back to Rithrynn, but Rithrynn merely glared back down at her.

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!" Rithrynn growled back, before she pointed towards the exit with her thumb.
"We're going out, whether you like it or not. And don't give me that sad look, you're not the victim here, so go!"

Letting out a soft groan of complaint, Nisha eventually lowered her head and walked towards the exit of the room. When she reached the doorstep, the large Nightsaber suddenly stopped to turn to look at Kathlin who was standing there, brandishing its teeth at the human girl. But another shout from Rithrynn made Nisha quickly ignore the human again, and walk down through the corridor towards the atrium.

"Bah, that overgrown housecat can be quite a pain in the ass sometimes, but she is the closest thing I have to my own mount." Rithrynn said as she walked up to Kathlin, closing the door to the room behind her. The noise from the two competing nightsabers inside could still be heard out into the hallway, as the queen-of-the-bed battle had seemingly just started in there.
"Let's hope that owl of Liaena actually finds her. Otherwise I'm tempted to give her to Nisha."

Rithrynn said as the two girls began to head for the atrium as well, with Rithrynn walking in front.

...

"Or maybe not. With all the chocolate that feathered ball has eaten in her lifetime, she might even be poisonous to her... "

*

Arriving outside after having installed a saddle and blanket on the rather unwilling Nisha, Kathlin and Rithrynn ventured out into the snowy garden with their new nightsaber companion. As as she mounted Nisha, Rithrynn was suddenly approached by the watcher Falaani from the gate, who by now seemed halfway on her way to becoming a walking snowelf!

"Hey, where are you going?" Falaani quickly called out as she hurried over to Rithrynn.

"Oh, I'm searching for the lost prisoner." Rithrynn quickly explained, but Falaani threw Rithrynn a suspicious gaze in return.

"The prisoner is hiding in the house... 

"No, as far as we know, he could be outside already."

"I have to ask the mistress before,-"

"Fal, I am a LIEUTENANT remember?"

"A temporary lieutenant! "

"But still a lieutenant until the mistress says otherwise!"

Falaani paused, merely glaring up at Rithrynn. 

"Fine then, but be back soon. Have you heard anything about my relief? I've been waiting for hours!"

"Nope. But since a prisoner escaped, it's probably been delayed... "

"Goddess, I hate this night!" Falaani exclaimed as she gritted her teeth, before turning and walking away; tucking her arms back under her cloak as she headed back to the gate.

As Falaani had left them, RIthrynn peered down at Kathlin from Nasha's back as she signaled for the human to come up to her.

"Mount up, human. What are you waiting for?" Rithrynn called down to her with a rather impatient voice while the Night Elf pulled her hood over her head to shield herself from the snow and the wind. The nightsaber, Nasha, turned her head as well to growl threateningly towards Kathlin!