headintheclouds — Roleplayer Guild

Claire was relieved to see that he had at least gotten a folder; she wasn't sure what information she had gotten since she hadn't actually had a moment to look at her phone.   "You got a name, at least. All I got was a state." She said,  sliding into the driver's seat after stowing their bags in the trunk and locking it before putting the keys into the ignition and turning it to the proper setting for it to be a flying,invisible car, rather than a Muggle road car. They had been testing working with cars that had a push button start, but they hadn't managed to find a way to make it have different settings just yet. 

Once they were both settled in and buckled up, Claire started to drive, going around the back of the headquarters just in case before going through the procedure to become airborne and cloaked from Muggle view. Any other witches or wizards could see them, to prevent traffic accidents, but they prevented Muggles from having a conniption fit upon seeing flying cars. 

"I have information on my phone, apparently, but texting and driving is bad, and texting while flying is worse. Do you at least have a hotel address I can put into the navigation here? If not I'll unlock my phone for you to look; they reserved a hotel that we should go to first, set up a base camp and figure out what the hell is going on."

Claire felt like her head was going to burst even though she hadn't been looking at the photos for very long. Cross referencing with the digital creature database had gotten her absolutely nowhere, since nothing they had on record even came close to matching the size and intensity of the claw marks they had seen on the walls. And even with the claw marks, there was nothing that dealt with fire other than dragons, and there was no way one would have gone undetected, especially by children. They simply didn't have the power to do so. 

Giving up on the digital database, she saved the photo files and got up, going into the library for the office. "I need a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them a transcription of Monster Book because I don't feel like wrestling with the real one, Magical Monsters of North America and Mexicoand if we have Secrets of the Darkest Art, that would be great too." 

The library wasn't manned; they had a librarian but she was only there a few days a week and this wasn't one of them. Instead, one merely had to speak their request clearly and wait for a few moments for their order to be delivered. Requesting transcripts took longer, but it was worth it to not have to chase ones research across the office. Within five minutes, a stack of books topped off with a binder clipped stack of papers flew towards her, and she accepted them gratefully, carrying the entire stack back to her desk and starting to look through them to try and find any mention of what they were dealing with. 

One chapter in, Walker approached her desk.  "You're being sent out on assignment with the new guy from the other branch; while you were gone we picked up a lead in Arizona that you two have been assigned to check out."  She tossed a set of seemingly normal keys at Claire, who caught them without thinking.

"We're not flying Muggle style?" Claire asked curiously, putting the keys in her pocket and starting to pack her things up, including the laptop and the books she had pulled. 

"That will take too long; besides you'll need a car when you get there. Brant already made hotel reservations for you when you get there; the information is on your phone. Bring a Muggle ID; your partner is getting told now. Leave as soon as you can and report when you get there."

As her boss walked away, Claire packed up what she needed from her desk into a rucksack that she had gotten permission to cast an Undetectable Extension charm on, then went to a locker room at the back of the office. All Aurors were required to keep at least one 'go bag' on hand in case they were stuck in the office or sent out on a case with no time to pack, and with a wave of her wand, her locker popped open and she pulled a duffel bag out, slinging it over her shoulder. 

Satisfied that she was ready to go, she walked back out into the main office to try and find Abram so that they could get going.

Claire blushed lightly as he suggested that being her constant companion would cut down on trying to get him approved to enter the building; it amazed her how he was able to focus (so far!) on a case and on flirting. This was certainly going to be an interesting case no matter what happened. 

Abram gave her a heads up that he was going elsewhere for a bit, to update his team, and would meet her back at her desk and she nodded.  "That sounds like a plan; I'm going to get some work done with these photos so everybody can have a copy, and see whether or not I can find any other details that might help us, like what exactly this thing is. The children's witness reports should be coming in sooner rather than later."

She went back to her desk and began to do just as she said; downloading all of the photos onto a muggle computer and using basic programs like photoshop to highlight details and zoom in, cross referencing with a creature database as she tried to figure out just what was going on

I regret to say it but I think I'm going to back out for now!

@Doublemy apologies; I didn’t realize it was a link!

@Double I'm interested! What fairy tales are you thinking of?

Bumpin for old times sake; I would love to do this with someone!

@pyroman I'm interested in your writing vibe; perhaps we could work something out!

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