[ooc: Sorry, I just needed to type something. Any longer and I'd have cobwebs.
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Town was bustling, and Aura felt lost. She’d nearly been stepped on half a dozen times –
clumsy damn oafs, should watch where they put their damn stupid clumsy feet – so wasn’t in a very good mood, and to cap it all Jan had simply vanished. At first she’d been a little concerned he’d gone off and got himself killed, but there wasn’t the undercurrent of thinly-veiled panic that had followed all the rest of the killings, so that was at least a little reassuring…
After a good two hours aimlessly roaming, she gave up in disgust and sat on a treestump to watch the passers-by for familiar faces. Maybe Blue would be along, sometime… Frack, maybe even
Jan would emerge back out of whatever woodwork he’d been hiding in…
She slumped onto her chin and sighed.
Lonely lonely… should of stayed in my tree, she sighed, and dozed…
Someone poked her in the arm. “Hey – hey! You Aurora…?” A voice asked.
She opened one bleary eye and focused it on the speaker – mudokon, youngish, looked excitable. “What you want?” she asked, gruffly.
“Jan told me to come find you-”
She pushed herself upright. “Where is he?” she cut in, sharply.
“Um, well – he’s been arrested.”
“What?!”
“He got in a fight with the police – well, kind of – and they-”
“I get the picture,” she groaned and covered her head with her hands. “And he says
I’m a pain in the arse…”