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Sahm: Relating the News

Sahm and Lial, having discerned that the demons had left and taken the others with them, spared no time, but ran at their top speeds back to the Fifth Leaf Den. Sahm was faster than Lial, but they weren't very far. What had taken them three hours out took them only thirty minutes back in to camp.

Of course, Sahm was so winded that he couldn't speak when he burst into the otherwise calm kitsune encampment. His arrival, and Lial's shortly thereafter, scattered the kitsunes like a kicked anthill.

Kyrre was dragged over, with no explanation, to the stump where Sahm sat, drinking water and trying to regain his voice. Lial was sprawled out on the leaf and pine needle covered ground, breathing heavily. He was still a ways away from speaking.

Sahm looked at Kyrre, and flashed a few hand signals.

Royal-Fox girl.

Demons.

Nearby.

And Sahm paused as Kyrre's eyes narrowed. He bent in close, almost as if to allow Sahm to lean on him. His hands flashed in front of his chest, though, and only Sahm's eyes could catch it. Sahm nodded once in response, and simply flashed back, when Kyrre straightened;

Others gone.

Kyrre nodded.

"She's been kit-napped. Demons again. But nearby. I think we have a good chance at recovery here. Need three teams. One with Sahm, one with Lial, and one with me. Now!"

He turned on his heel quickly, and was back in a moment, with his chakram with him.

"I'll lead the advance party. Lial, you come next- secure the perimeter. Sahm, you follow inside. Follow soon."

And with that, Kyrre led over fifty kistunes at a flat run, following Sahm and Lial's return scent, and keeping a nose out for Rose's scent, as well.

Within five minutes, another two hundred kitsunes, with Lial and Sahm, were on the same trail.

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Rose: Prisoner

Rose awoke, but was really groggy. Her head pounded, and the light hurt. Part of her mind was sure that this was happening way too often lately. The rest of her was just confused.

The ground was cold concrete under her, and she rolled over, trying to get up. Halfway through her turn, she was stopped by cold metal bars.

Opening her eyes fully, she saw that she was in a cage. Only about three feet wide, and five feet long (Rose was over 5 feet tall, and could not stretch out fully, she realized), and was only four feet high.

It was also very, very dark. And her kitsune eyes were not being that helpful in allowing her to see in the dark after all. Part of her knew she should be able to see better than this, even in this light.

Rose sighed loudly, and heard a small scuffle nearby. She froze in panic, until she realized she heard more than one other person breathing quietly in this... dark room of unknown shape, size, or purpose. All she knew was that she was a prisoner. A soft, slightly furry something brushed against her side. It felt along, and Rose moved her hand to intercept it- a little anxious. But when she touched it, the furry thing moved to interlace her own hand, and Rose realized. It was another fuzzy hand. Another prisoner.

Rose held on to the hand, and it held on back. There was no sound for quite some time again, and Rose tried to clear her foggy mind. She couldn't, and all she could pin it to was that there was some other magic behind this. She was not happy about it, either.