Connor gave a nod as Paige told her name and gave away that she was a hunter. “It does make me feel better, and even more that you’re a hunter, and I’m assuming the one that doesn’t hunt animals,” he said, keeping his voice particularly low. He looked over as Phil gave a harsh comment to Paige, but seemed to suddenly become distracted. Connor looked at Phil strangely, then turned to Paige. “Now, will you help me? We need to figure out what’s going on before whatever that beeping summoned comes-” A sudden howl quieted him. Connor gave a curse and looked at Paige, giving a “follow me” motion. If that was a lycan, they were in trouble.
As he walked through the crowd, Connor noticed Sai’tioula behind the group, but she didn’t seem so panicked. Connor kept his gaze on her for a while, wondering if he should stay near her, but decided against it. Connor went inside the crowd, doing his best to calm down the others in the group and keep them moving forward.
The Manager listened intently to Isaac’s report, giving a nod when he was done. “I suppose I could contact them. Maybe after this event is over, but for now I’m distracted by the hunting event. Your ‘souvenir’ though is most interesting. I’ve heard of the creatures but never seen one myself. I suppose it could be quite useful,” he noted, looking at the container.
The Manager looked back over at Edward as he gave a retort to their conversation from earlier, then left. The Manager frowned, but didn’t let it bother him. Let Edward believe his own claims.
Do you know if it can retain the memories of its host?” He asked, looking back at at Isaac.
Rand cocked his head as Phil approached him and Penny. Without realizing, he got into a slightly protective stance. Phil’s “advice” was not very helpful with keeping the group calm. Rand gave a look over to Penny before speaking to Phil. “I’m fairly sure I know what reality is, and keeping our hopes high is fairly important for all of us,” he said sternly. Phil could potentially ruin Rand’s goal for keeping morality high with his strange talks. “In fact, I’d recommend for you to to understand reality instead. We’re in a forest and probably far from potential weapons, and I’m fairly sure we’re not going to find a magical rock that bestows them. Shelter would be nice, but I think distance would be better currently.” Rand was telling the truth about that. He would be finding weapons if he could, but this was a forest. Sticks would be useless if he was right about what was hunting them. “Now, if you want to help us get out of here, I’d talk to Connor if I were you,” he said, jerking his head and giving a also-please-shut-up-or-I’ll-have-to-box-your-face-in look, doing his best to hide it from Penny.