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Investigating a Missing Fae in Two Parts

[Part 1 - Sirius and Evie]

He'd started at the shop. Seemed like the most obvious place. Trying to see if he could smell anything or find any leads as to why this Fae was gone. Not left, just gone. It definitely seemed odd, and weird things with Fae seemed to be happening all over, or at least, more than usual.

To continue with unusual things, Sirius was keeping to human form. Typically, he kept to his dog form for stuff like this. It was normal for a dog to go around sniffing things, not so much for a human. But he figured this was safer in case he needed to talk his way out of a situation, or needed to dig for more information.

Finding a promising smell, he followed it, making his way down the street until he found a park. He paused on the edge of it, seemingly appraising the dinosaur structures and glad that no one was using the park. Though he got the feeling he wasn't entirely alone.

[Part 2 - Reporting back to Eames.]

After the successful interrogation of the imp, it was time to report back to Eames.

"So, uh, do you want to take the lead on this or shall I?" Sirius asks.

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She pauses, looking the man over.

"Yes- I am. I don't suppose you've heard of any witnesses?"

"None so far, but a couple of scents led me here, so I was hoping I might find someone. I'm assuming you're in the same boat?"

He glances over at the dinosaurs and points.

"Haven't searched them thoroughly though. The fae's trail ends there, but there's a few others still hanging about."

Sirius gets a curt nod.

"Let's get searching, then. See if there are anyone here that may have noticed something that day. I'll leave it up to you to decide which you'd rather- I don't exactly have the friendliest first appearance." Vampires + Fae = Tasty Snack.

Sirius nods, considering the structures for a moment.

"How about I take the tyranosaurus, and you take the triceratops and, whoever finishes first can take the stegosaurus and we'll move on from there."

He sounds fairly impressed with himself, both for taking charge and remembering the names of the dinosaurs. Without really waiting for agreement, he heads off towards his chosen dinosaur, finding steps up the back that lead to a slide.

"Sounds like quite the plan to me." She says with a nod. It was a perfectly reasonable plan. The only problem was that, unfortunately, her dinosaur knowledge was a little... rusty, let's say.

So she hesitates, waiting to see which one Sirius moves to, before attending to the triceratops.

One of the first things she noticed when she arrived at the dinosaur was that there was a distinctly thick sweet scent in the air. Fae- she knew it anywhere, her nose practically twitching. Delicious- but not food. Not a chance- she refused to partake in fae blood. Especially not if it was unwillingly given.

No, the scent seems to move away from the triceratops, moving closer toward the stegosaurus, and the edge of the woods. "Hullo?" she called out quietly, hoping to keep any outsiders from hearing.

It doesn't take long for Sirius to inspect the slide, finding nothing but only the faint scent of fae, leading back towards the other structures. He ignores the brief urge to go down the slide, in favour of moving towards the stegosaurus (if only because the more rational side of him spoke up, pointing out that there would be a rather likely chance for him to get stuck. Which, if nothing else, would be horrifically embarrasing.)

The scent is stronger over here, Sirius notes as he approaches the tail. Stronger, and slightly different, with something mixed it. Ignoring the fact that he'll look completely strange to outsiders, he leans in to get a stronger whiff while Evie calls out. Something that was hiding under the dinosaur stiffens, so Sirius figures it's his turn.

"Is someone there?"

Whatever was hiding under the dinosaur takes off towards the woods with a yelp.

It takes off, and Evie's fast. She's dealt with fleeing people before. "Stay here!" Evie tells Sirius, before taking off after the whatever it is. Fae.

"We just want to talk to you! I promise, neither of us are going to hurt you!" Evie calls as she runs after the thing. It doesn't take much to overcome it. The imp is small, and Evie has long legs and vampire strength on her side. Her hand closes over it's arm.

"We'd like to ask you a few questions, imp. If you'll come along with me and my associate, I'm sure I can reward you for your patience."

This seems to change the imp's mind, and in a few moments, Evie and her new friend come walking out of the woods. She glances at Sirius and nods.

"I'm guessing this is who we were looking for?"

It's a rhetorical question, unless they were completely wrong. But nothing smelled fishy, so Sirius figured they were on the right track.

Of course, what would be the best way to start off this interrogation?

"So, what were you doing here?"

"I live there," the imp says, crossing his arms. "What are you doing sniffing around my house?" he demands to know.

Evie listens, nodding. But she doesn't dare speak.

Sirius resists making any comments about the "house", but he doesn't answer right away. He has to focus on this, word his question right.

"We're looking for someone. A fae, goes by the name of Nemed, I think?" He glances at Evie for confirmation. "Word is, he was last seen around here."

Evie nods, yes, that's correct.

the imp, meanwhile, recognizes the name. "Nemed- yeah, yeah, haven't seen him in some time. Last I saw him here, he was right on top of my house!" The stegosaurus.

"Was he now? Did you happen to talk with him, or see where he went?"

Any sort of lead would be helpful at this point, with the trail having gone cold.

"I haven't seen him since!" The imp said irritatedly, placing his hands on his hips. "He just POOF! into thin air!"

Evie looks at Sirius.

"He was summoned."

Well, that would explain why the trail suddenly goes cold. And why he can't get a lead.

"Summoned? By who?"

"Hell if I know!" Says the Imp.

Evie, meanwhile, keeps her look on Sirius. "All they need to summon is a name. It could be anyone." Could be Samantha.

Sirius nods, suppressing a shiver. Hadn't that been something he'd been doing recently. Collecting names? He was pretty sure Nemed wasn't one of them, but who's to say he wasn't the only one doing it. He didn't feel all that great about it, but he wasn't going to mention it in this crowd.

"There's no way of telling? Guess that ends that. Thanks," he says to the Imp.

"Thank you," Evie tells the imp, before reaching into her pocket. There's a quick moment of movement, and she pulls out a few bills and hands them to him. "We're sorry to have interrupted your afternoon. It won't happen again."

From them, at least.

The imp takes the money and disappears, back into the forest. Better to wait until these trespassers left.

With the imp out of the way, Evie turns to Sirius. "What are the chances it's a witch?"

"I'm willing to assume pretty high? They seem to have been poking around in fae populated areas recently."

To say nothing of his involvement in Bromley.

"I think it's a safe bet to make."

"Fuck." Evie swears low. She tries not to swear, but now is as good time as ever.

"So anyone anywhere could have him." She presses her lips together.

"Looks that way."

Sirius doesn't blame her. It's frustrating, knowing that the trail's gone cold and picking it up again is definitely not going to be easy. And certainly not fun.

"Guess I better go report this. I don't know what else there is to do."

It's beyond his level of skill, that much is certain to Sirius.

"Of course." She nods. She's got some research to do, though undoubtedly there'd be little information available.

"Thank you. For your assistance."

"No problem. Glad I was able to be of some help."

And it had probably taken less time than if he'd been on his own. Negotiations had never been his strong suit after all.

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