There washing himself in the sink, was Tobias and he looked like shit.
Why is he here? she thought as she watched him, her tail twitching.
While she hated him, she could tell from his condiction that he was no threat to her or Hunter at the moment, so she decided to leave him be...for now.
She motioned for Hunter to follow and the pair of them moved to the darknest corner of the room and waited. Weak or not...she knew she couldn't risk Tobias finding out where Spider was hiding, so it was best to wait until he left.
Soon enough, Tobias staggered out of the kitchen, dripping wet and wandered back toward where the inns rooms were. Dementa waited a moment, to make sure he was out of ear shot, then moved back to the trap door. She tried to lift it but got a shock as it was stuck.
Snorting with annoyance she knocked on the door. No response. She knocked again, a bit more ergent this time.
"Hey!" she growled as quietly as could through one of the cracks of the door, "You no longer like my company or something?"
At that point there was the sound of someone rushing over to the trap door, some mumbling about tieing knots too well and then the door opened. Blue's head sticking out.
"Dementa..." Blue said happily, "About time you came back...we were getting worried." Blue spotted Hunter behind Dementa and startled, "Hunter...you're back!"
"Shhh! Not so loud." Dementa hissed softly, "Let us in and I'll explain."
Blue nodded and disappeared, clearly the way. Dementa nodded to Hunter and climbed down, Hunter following after her.
"Hunt o'buddy!" Spider said happily, his tail wagging, "Good to see you again!"
"Quiet!" Dementa barked, "Tobias is still up there."
Spider's face darkened. "Does he know we are here?"
"I don't think so...he looks like shit."
"Good...so what did you find out."
"Well for starters...the only 'hard' evidence I found was that the Mayor's office now sports a lab a lot like Olm's here."
"Most likely due to the Vykker being here." Spider said with a nod.
"The only other thing was that I saw and overheard the Mayor and the head of hte slig guard here arguing. Sounded bad...someone killed a few sligs and stole grenades...powerful ones at that, ones that can level this town."
"Eep." Blue squeaked.
"There's more...the slig captain...Trey I believe his name was, wanted to pull out of town due to that insident, but the Mayor said no. Trey said he was going to leave anyway with his sligs and then the Mayor killed him!"
"Oh Odd...oh Thunder Moon..." Spider mumbled, it wasn't often something caused him to utter the names of gods, "We have to stop him...and stop the one that stole those grenades..."
"Hold on a mo..." Hunter piped up, "Just what the heck is going on here?"
Dementa looked at Spider and they nodded.
"Long story old friend.." Spider said with a sigh, "One that starts back when Malice was still here..." At that Spider proceeded to tell Hunter all that had gone on since Hunter was last in Pyke....
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