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The twins rapidly lumbered behind, making a rather odd looking silouette in the dark as they crouched low while moving, before scrunching up against the next wall, then scrabbling over it.

Veronica seemed quite perturbed by the guard apparently stationed on the other side. They could smell him of course, but he smelled like any other human. It was a little weird that she was talking at the night air without Doc present.

All the same, maybe it would help her not be quite so paranoid.

"Miss V'ronica?" Asked Rose timidly, slinking up beside her near the wall. "If'n ya worried, ya cu'd use dis.. "

She reached into her bag and pulled out the white bead bracelet, and handed it to her. "Uh's sees 'nuff, buh' mebbe yous kin use it. Jus' pu' it on, --sos Lil says.."

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"Is dat whos we smells?" asked Lily with a wrinkled nose.
"Smell like he half-rotten!" chimed Rose, just before the two began their descent down the wall.

"Who ya think 'is folks is?"
"We shud ask when we gits ere!"
"Mebbe he cuUUUUTEE--"

Lily's grip on the wall momentarily failed, sending her downward faster than she wanted, leaving 4 sets of deep furrows in the plaster where she slid.

Rose rolled her eyes, then just 'bounced' a little in her own descent to repeat the motion, quickly catching up to her sister.
"Ya leavin' ya mark ta le' 'im knows we was here, sis?" she chided, before hopping down.
"Veruh funneh Rose. Veruh funneh."

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The wall was worn and rough, but presented very little surface to grip.

Rose quickly and wordlessly passed the amulet she had worn all night back to her sister, the latter slipping it over her head, then the two of them considered the wall more closely...

They had never ... tried... to climb something like this. Trees, sure-- but.. Not a wall. Not like this.

It was a sketchy operation that left them very worried and frightened, but they took their time, and slowly ascended it, claws scratching and biting at the rotting masonry and finding footing they did not expect to gain, before finally arriving at the top and then looking over.
"Waow... Never woulda guessed..."
"-Me Neither.."

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"Lileh"

"Rose"

The twins smiled briefly, then looked around.

"Pleased tuh meet ya han'some bu' we gots work tuh do--"
"--Yup. Gotta save our idji't brudder naow... Buh come sees us la'er, hmm?"

They turned to the short lady, apparently named 'Yvonne'. Well, that's another name out of the bag.

"Pleased tuh meet yous too miss..." Lily stammered over the vowel-consonant slur that started the name, before finally finishing with the incorrect, but probably close enough "..Yonnie." Ursine mouths were not made the same as human ones.

"Hope we get all da rest'ya names la'er-- If'n yous bashin' in da door, whe'h we sneakin' in at?"

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"Gimmie muh bug back Rosie.." drawled Lily. She and her sister had stopped staring at Evan when he ceased his evening wash ritual, disappointed that the pants never came off. Now their attention was drawn toward the group assignments.

"Uh.. ok lil.." came the confused response, as she fumbled with it off her arm, then handed it back. "What ya gunna?.."

"Evr'eh buddeh else got a thingm'abob tuh shows emselves on at little slab o' hide 'cepts us. Uh's gunna fix 'at." She said rather determinedly, as she slipped it back over her head. The odd bubble formed around her again almost immediately.

"Don' hurt ya'self lil... we gots tuh has all we gots fer dis.."

"Dun' remin' meh.."

Lily scrabbled in the moonlight, selecting two different stones to work with, then unfolded her tool roll, and quickly set to work. Rose could see magic being subtly employed as the rocks got scratched, scraped, chiselled and shaped rather hastily into two more-or-less bear shaped figurines making obscene gestures, as the bubble finally collapsed. Rose couldnt help but chuckle.

"Why don' we tells em how we realleh feels, hmm?" She askeed her sister cheekily.

"Dun think they coulds handles it!" She joked back. "Dis'll has tuh do." She once more removed the pendant and handed it back to her sister. "Gunna has ta figure out hows tuh fill dis darn thang now Rosie, its run ou'."

Rose took it and wrapped it back around her arm and rolled her eyes as her sister scampered up to the knot of people by the map, and dropped the two offensive tokens in the sneaking infiltration team.

"At bitch aint gittin' away!" She barked, then sauntered back to her spot again.

"Hope ya know what ya doin'.."
"Oh, uh does Rosie, She goin DAOWN."

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"Paps taugh' us not tuh kills peoples-- Purdy much." Ventured Lily; her eyes engrossed and her ears forward watching Evan performing his "nightly ritual."
"Only ifn' 'ere aint no odder way-- er fer insuff'rble assholes as wont learn." chimed Rose, her gaze fixing in the same location half a second after her sister.
"Same thang-- realleh.."
"Mmm..Hmm.."

The two just stared, ears forward, -- very attentive.

('dya thank he gunna take i' all off?')
('Onleh one way tuh fin' out---')
(chuckle)

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Well this just made less and less sense, and Cedar had a **LOT** of explaining to do, when they got him back.

Mr "Only wants to feed the birds" had MORE THAN ONE woman out here with eyes on him, and he DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING!? This business about "Important positions" didn't make any sense at all so they spaced it-- He was just their stupid older brother-- (who apparently could knock down a whole damn town-- ANOTHER thing he hadn't said a damn thing to them about! Oh, but he was GONNA! He was going to sing like one of those birds he feeds when they were through with him!) But really now, if this woman was that hot and heavy for him, all she needed to do was ask! They'd have arranged THAT meeting! Sure as shit, HE wasn't going to without some kind of nose-twisting, the way he acted!

... Maybe that's why she hired thugs?...

They looked at each other in confusion, then furrowed their brows. Wanting him was all fine and dandy, but zapping him in the middle of the night, then holding him hostage just because she wanted some fun was just uncalled for, and un-neighborly!

"Wait-- Lemme git dis straight---- She WAN' OUR BRUDDER... FER DAT!?"
"Lissen lady-- Ain't nuttin' wrong wit' want'n a lil fun-- But 'at lady think she kin just haul off, an STEAL OUR BRUDDER--"
"Instead just ASKIN' US-- We'd a helped a ladeh out!--"
Rose once more body-checked her sister, then cut her off.
"--SHE GOT 'NUDDER THANG COMMIN'! We gunna kick 'er ass!"

Rose glared at Lily a moment, asserting wordlessly that this was NOT the time to be making jokes about their brother's love life, or rather, "Complete Lack There Of", and was serious business.
"Asides-- What dis' Delvin' Fella get outta it nohow?" asked Rose, with her sister losing the battle to keep the cheeky commentary bottled in right behind.
"Dun tell us he da kind as likes tuh watch!"

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The sisters stopped munching down their dinner, the moment the intelligence briefing started, and were well focused by the time their brother was mentioned. However, several things did not make sense to them.

Who was this "Dutchess Stritzel", why would she want to steal their brother, who was this "Delving" person, and why would he have hired thugs to help this stritzel woman? Could their brother have really pissed somebody off this badly?

Was this related to the town that was blown up?

After a moment's pause, in which Jazdia made her report about this Delving person's involvement being confirmed, they raised their questions.

"Es'cuse us-- Buht-- Uhm..--"
"--We's is Cedar's sis'ers-- and some thangs dun make no sense tuh us."
"Yeah-- Who dis "Stritzel" woman, and what she want wit our brother in da firs' place? Why grab 'im in da middle a da damn nigh' while he takin a sheeit for nohow?"

They looked at each other, and at the people making goggle eyes at them.

"Well dey did! We done seened it!"
"--Pay no attention tuh 'er--" asserted Rose, giving her sister a body-check. "But yeah, why dey takes him, and who da hell dis Delvin' fella? Why he sendin' dumbsheeits ta keep us out fer?"

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Lily was busy horking down her stew, which made working on the silly thing she was wearing near impossible. Further, the amulet was not accepting any of what she was trying to push at it.

"Hol' still Lil! How's yous es'pect meh tuh try an 'charge dis crazeh thang with you movin' roun' like 'at!?"

Lily made only a momentary pause in her rapid consumption of her dinner to address her sister with a cheeky snort, shimmy out of the pendant, then hand it to her for further, uninhibited study.

"Ya gunna e't 'at!?" she asked greedily, pointing at Rose's pot of soup.
"PAWS OFF LIL' 'ATS MINE!"
"'Ats da Rosie uh knows!" Lily chuckled, then dug back in to her own pot.

Rose pulled her helping close and made a leer at her sister, then started slopping it down herself, putting the amulet around her arm like a bracelet with the chain wraped around a few times to hold it on, to avoid losing it in the shuffle, and enduring the odd feeling of "expansion" it offered.

She'd see about refilling it later.

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Rose huffed at herself. If the old man had already known, then so be it. She could smell the stew cooking, and figured she should go get some of it before her sister ate it all. Sharing was caring, but you only had to share when others were at the table. Those were the rules at home. (Granted, a lot of that was to please their mother, but it seemed a perfectly good rule to her too. Sadly, it did have its down-sides, when you were the one not at the table.)

At a decent trot, she paddled up beside her sister, who was still nursing her dizzy head. She always got that way after really using her powers. She wished she had the head for magic-- She'd help her sister out with this kind of thing as more than just 'her other half', but every time she tried to study, her head just swam, and rebelled against it. She could direct energy just fine, but bending it to DO something besides just push, or pull? Nope. She much preferred her potion making.
"Yuh's doin' a'righ sis?" she asked, dropping in along-side her. "Worked it tuh har' din' ya?"

She was referring to her sister's stooped over, distressed posture. It was obvious she had pushed herself too hard. It wasn't a truly bad thing; she'd be better in the morning.
"Yeah.... uh did.... But i's wort' it Rosie-- Dis thang's amazin!"

A gleaming set of white teeth shown in the moonlight as her sister smiled brilliantly.

"Ain't seen you dis happeh since paps brough' 'ome at jar a honneh when we's 3. 'Member 'at?"
"Yeha... Yeah uh does!"
The two of them giggled, then nestled close to each other. Rose looked at her sister, and noted that the 'bubble' around her was substantially smaller than earlier.

"How much ya think 'at thang hold? Look like ya used a good bit o' it up--"
"More an' I has muhself! Uh knows at much! --- At Good'nuff fellar wanned us tuh buy magic potions--"
"Said yuh'd git a 'hangov'er' if'n ya didn't... buh uh ain't got no blueburries, nor no wat'r wasps Lil, caint make ya none."
"Uh knows-- but when I delv'd it, it were thirsteh-- mebbe ya coul' give it push?"

Rose rolled her eyes at her sister. She always had the dumbest ideas sometimes. "aright-- uh'll give it a shot... Bu' no promises naow!" she said, gently clasping the blue bug looking pendant on her sister's neck, then gently funneling some of her own power into it. Shortly after she started, Jazdia broke her concentration, but only for a moment.

"Everyone, can I have your attention?" she inhaled a deep breath and smiled." Relax, feel free to continue with your meal. This will be long, so I suggest you get comfy."

"Look like we's gots more friends.. "
"Hope she made 'nuff!"
"Dun worreh, she lef' you at bit o'er yonder."
"Well.. Hot dayum..."

Lily of course, had pointed out a rather large tub of stew, much like her own, indicating that this was the serving reserved for herself. It was quite a serviceable helping. She gave her sister a loving bump on her shoulder, and a nod of appreciation for her role in getting food cooked, but said nothing more. Instead pulling her portion near herself to keep it claimed, then set back to work on trying to refill the strange pendant.