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Skeena grimaced, flattening her ears. It was obvious mother was upset, but hopefully she would accept her apology and explanation.

Hoping to speak to Mother, she hurried to catch up to her, attempting to keep stride so they were nearly side by side. "I'm sorry Mother," she said, abashed. "I knew there was nothing we could do to convince them otherwise, so I thought it would be best if I went with them."

She licked her lips, speeding up to keep up with her larger Mother. "Besides, I don't trust this Collector. I think we should know what he's planning, what he is having the other Gembounds do."

@Giggle @Scorch @Glory @Thothaga @Felina

Ooh, The Collector. Nice and ominous, very dramatic. Or maybe that was just him. Scorch stared at the black figurine. Had the Collector just created that? Out of thin air? "Did he actually just do that?" he asked to no one in particular. "Is that... but there was nothing there before!" However, no one else seemed to be surprised at this development - or was he just bad at reading people's emotions? Maybe this was just another thing magic could do. After all, he'd once seen a cat light his own spit on fire. Nothing was impossible. Not even suddenly disappearing in a flash of blue light. The Collector had just done that, after all.

"Okay!" he said at Glory's suggestion, hopping up onto the eagle's back only to step back down at hearing Skeena's suggestion. "Oh yeah, good idea! We should do that too. Where is it?" Then, he realized that no matter how far the cairn, whatever that meant, was, he'd still probably be quicker if he rode on Glory's back. Oops. "Let's go then!" he suggested, trying to inconspicuously step back onto Glory.

@Giggle @Skeena @Glory @Thothaga @Felina

Glory followed the others, feeling Scorch stepping onto his back. He bent himself a little bit so that they wouldn't be sliding off, feeling a little ridiculous. But that wasn't what was important now. His mind was whirling with thought. Who was this Collector and why did they want items of power? And how did they have such power to create them themselves? He glanced towards Thothaga. She had an item of great power now - what did it truly do?

He stopped and turned towards Skeena, his brow furrowing. "I don't know...how could we find out that information anyways without asking them ourselves? And if they had malicious intent, they wouldn't exactly tell us, would they? Besides..." and this was where his voice grew firm and he stood just a little taller. "I gave the Collector my word that we would retrieve this gem for them. It doesn't matter how good or evil someone is. A promise is a promise."

His eyes rested on the Bonereader, his gaze serious and determined. Even if the others backed down, he would follow this through. "Please, you must tell me...do you know of any black dogs that look like that? You are the oldest and most experienced of all of us. You must know something." And even if Giggle knew nothing, he would go out on his own and search. Even if he was the only one that would do anything at all, he would see this through.

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@Thothaga @Skeena @Giggle @Scorch @Felina

A brief lick to Skeena's head, idle, and the hyena turned to listen. She gave her a little nod.

"Wise enough, but be wary," Giggle warned. "You know my warnings that these others can't be trusted." Grim, dry, a hint of her prior twitching and a break of her voice displaying clearly enough the hyena's distress.

To the eagle she gave her full attention, and her voice was dour as she replied. "Foolish, stupid," she chittered, as if upset by this. "Of course it matters if someone is evil, as you say. Malicious! They will hurt others and your fool promise might hurt them. Don't make promises, if it matters so much to you. Fool," she added, repeating the word, in afterthought.

A grunt, then. "I've known a few that look like that! None well. And I don't know where they are now," she added. She remembered little of the wolves, and the dog, she knew, had been with a fisher named, appropriately, Fisher. But that had been many cycles ago, and she had no idea where they'd gone, or if they were even still alive.

"If you go, daughter-... be careful," Giggle said, this directed down toward Skeena in a quieter, more solemn voice.

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@Glory @Skeena @Scorch

Mother licked her head, and Skeena knew that Mother wasn't angry. She was worried - concerned. This was dumb, she knew, but she couldn't, in good conscience, just let a bunch of Gembounds wander off on what could be a suicide mission. Besides, who knew?, this knowledge might help Mother later on, at some point in the future. "Of course, Mother." she agreed, licking the hyena's muzzle.

Then, she returned her attention to the others. The eagle, obviously, was a fool, had never had someone like Mother to teach him. Hadn't he been going on about goodness, and honor, and such things? But Mother reprimanded them before she could, so the hybrid settled for shaking her head, huffing an exasperated breath out of her nose.

She looked back to Mother, offering her a smile in an attempt at reassuring her. "Of course, Mother. Always." Skeena twined herself around Mother's legs like some sort of overgrown cat.

@Glory @Dark @Scorch

Felina took in the tableaux before her. She observed The Collector. She watched the statue being given to someone in their group. She heard Giggle's opinion...and warning. She saw The Collector vanish.

"If I may...I think we should continue. I would suggest keeping our guard up. Be prepared for...well...anything. We all have Majicka within us. If we do this together, we can solve this mystery. For good or for ill, it's the very least we can do."

Felina took a deep breath. "I, for one, am ready. There *is* an answer. All I can do is try."

The runty bobcat lowered he head in respect: "Thank you, Lady Giggle. The advice you gave us will be helpful. I also assure you that, as your daughter's friends, we'll look after her."

@Glory, @Dark, @Scorch, @Skeena, @Giggle, @Thothaga

((OOC: Sorry for the long wait.))

as a maiden she tiptoes shy with her light...

Thothaga flinched as the Collector vanished in a flash of blue light. She groomed her sensitive eyes for a bit until her vision grew back. "Ugh! You could have warned me of the flashy bits!" She called back to Collecter, annoyed, even though he had long since disappeared and probably couldn't hear her.

By the time she regained her vision, the other gembounds had already gathered around Giggle. Thothaga hung in the back, listening to their conversations as she fiddled with the Fate's Throw die with her other palp. She tried to study the runes on its 20 something sides, but now that it was smaller, they were harder to make out. "This stone must not be wrongly-used. It has the chance to rewrite fate itself... for better, or for worse." The Collector's warning rang in her head. She began to feel overwhelmed with this responsibility. I must use this wisely, but when is wisely? She drew her attention to Giggle, who was preaching caution to her daughter about the Collector. She is a wise one, she will know. Thothaga thought. Besides, I want to read the bones too.

Thothaga quietly hung back from the party, waiting for them to disperse. She would catch up with them later, but right now, she wanted to speak to Giggle privately.

*Exit into the thread "To See"

"Thothaga speaking."
Thothaga thinking.

@Glory @Scorch @Skeena @Giggle @Felina

Giggle listened to the others, features remaining troubled. Her daughter's actions worried her--but Skeena's decisions were her own.

She glanced to Felina, too--the reassurances, coming from a feline maw. Bones, but she hated cats. At length she huffed.

"Well. ...Good luck, then, all of you. I'll be at my bones, if you need me." The hyena then turned, pacing up the path toward her bone pit proper. The others would go and do as this Collector bid, it would seem--regardless of her warnings. Well, hopefully they bore them in mind, at least; heeded them.

Hopefully, beneath his strange cloak, the Collector wasn't a cat.

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exit Giggle

Glory looked at the others and was disappointed to know that the hyena did not know where to find the black dog. The others, it seemed, didn't know so much either. Where would they start looking, then? The caves were big, after all. If they split up, they could cover more ground. But then how would they be able to communicate if one of them found something? It was an interesting question indeed.

But, to be honest, Glory was wholly convinced that he would be able to find the black dog alone. Yes, he would be rewarded, probably amazingly, if he came back with the stone all on his own! He had wings, after all, he would be able to fly and see from above. He could do it faster then the others, even with Scorch on his back.

He looked back towards Scorch and nodded. "We'll fly to Polaris." He turned back to the others and spread his wings. "We should start in the main cave. That might be the most likely place for him being. It's a good place to start. I will be off, if you wish to follow me, and I will start the search!"

With a jump and a few flaps of his wings, Glory was airborne and he turned himself so that they were on their way to the tunnel that would lead them out of Canis.

*exit

After listening to Miss Giggle talk, Scorch was a lot less convinced that the Collector was a good guy. Sure, he might be actually good, but what if he was just pretending and they'd just promised to help someone evil? "I think we should listen to Miss Giggle," he said to Glory, shifting his wings anxiously. "If we find out he's bad - well, no matter what we won't hurt anyone, okay? I don't want to hurt anyone and I don't want you to either."

He was sure that Glory would listen. Yes, a promise was a promise, but surely if it became clear that the Collector had deceived them they wouldn't have to keep it anymore. Glory was a hero, after all, and heroes didn't hurt people. Besides, the Collector might still be a good guy! If he was then they had no reason to not help him. With that thought firmly in his mind, Scorch dug in with his talons and was lifted into the air on Glory's back.

-exit

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