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"Told you he was coming back!" Jalie seems happy with herself as she starts looking through cupboards and drawers in the room. She eventually finds paper towels and grabs them. She walks back over to Camry and wipes off the blood. Jalie hands him the paper towels. "Here, in case you need to plug your nose. I'm glad you're back... and that I'm not crazy.." She mumbles the last bit to herself. "Hey, wait.. you helped me out of my nightmare.. I'm guessing you could see it? Or at least hear it?"

Camry took the paper towels from Jalie. “Yeah, I could see and hear most of it. I’m not sure how though..” he replied. “But I mostly just felt your emotions in the moment. So…what happened after I… took a quick nap? And how long was I gone?” He hugged her. “I’m glad to see you…”

"Oh... Yeah, I'm not really sure either. I have a feeling it might be because of my power." Jalie looks up at Camry, thinking. "Camry, I'm not in your mind. I left it a while ago. And yet I can hear you speak to me, out loud or in your mind. It's almost as if my power has made a connection to you... I'll have to work with it more later."

"I pretty much passed out a little after you disappeared. Sirius took me to a room so I could rest. You woke me up and I found Sirius's drawings and brought them here. I'm not really sure what they're talking about. Something about wards and dream casters.. or catchers? I don't know, I'm still weak from the sandman, which makes it hard to focus. And I still have a headache." She sighs and rubs her head gently. Jalie is surprised by the hug, but she hugs back nonetheless. She feels small hugging him, especially knowing he's younger than her. "I'm glad to see you too."

Camry steps back and taps his chin. “You know, I figured you wouldn’t have been trying to contact me in your nightmare but I was still able to hear…” he shook his head. “We’ll figure it out. But for right now, let’s see what we can do about your headache.” He placed his hand and her forehead as his hands glowed a gentle gold color. He drew power from himself so that the power she drew would be replenished. He lowered his hand and tilted his head. “Did that help?”

The dog seemed to be wandering, bit he wasn't. He was on a mission and he would not be deterred. He would sniff and mark certain places to make sure to know if he was in a new area or not.

About an hour of tossing, turning and screaming...Well that sounded very unpleasant. Still, that was what happened. However, Ashley was a little appalled to learn that there was possibly a second Sandman. As if one was bad enough. This led her to wonder which one invaded her nightmare and turned it into a rather...graphic one. Unfortunately, there was no real way for her to tell. Then Jonathan proceeded to inform her that more information was needed and the use of dreamcatchers. "The dreamcatcher may protect us in our dreams, but what'll protect us out here when we're not sleeping? And if we can find protection against him in both aspects, we may be able to defeat him as well. Maybe leave this...hellish place and return to wherever we came from." She responded. "He has to have a weakness too. But what is the question."

Slowly, she swung her legs off the bed so that she could get to her feet, stretching both her arms before putting both hands on her back. "And I may as well make myself useful. I may be pregnant, but back in my world, I'm a Paramedic, so if anyone's hurt, I can help treat their injuries."

Jalie looks startled and she blinks. "Yes, it did. Thank you."

"Now that I'm better, I'll help Jonathan find the new people here. Since I know their locations." She waits, ready to leave with Jonathan.

Camry scowled. “More people? How many people will this sandman bring in? We’ve got to find a way to stop him.”

The started sniffing around. Suddenly the smell of human caught his nose and he started trotting a bit quicker in the direction of the humans. His ears were up signifying that the Malinois was fully alert to everything around him. Maybe they could him get back to his home, or worse: maybe they were in trouble. In his mind, he was the only one who could help. Thor trotted along faster and followed the scent of the people.

“Before you all do anything ward your selves. Also take a small bottle of holy water, pray to your divine who ever have your light Magics ready. Do not engage we can not win. Then run back here as fast as you can take extra holy water. I did say to leave me do the outside… but you all are determined. I can not stop you.”

"Oh, yeah.. sorry. I don't know how to ward myself, much less what it is." Jalie gives a small shrug.

"Hey, the animal is getting closer to us... it seems like it knows where we are."

He saw the group of people and he would cautiously approach. The closer he got, the slower he went until he was about ten feet away from them. He would pace a little bit; he was trying to make sense of the group. He would let out a few whines and a bit of a muffled bark until he saw Camry and his tail began to wag. He slowly approached the young black child with his tail wagging until he saw Jalie and he stopped and looked at her before sitting.

(( Well I certainly missed a fair bit... ))

"Well, I think we do have better chances with the wards than me trying to make the dreamcatchers...but, anyway, I suppose we can go and look for those people now..." said Jonathan

And that's when he heard the dog barking, and immediately got into high alert...only to soon find it, and lowered his guard upon seeing the dog...

"Oh, so it's just a dog... Whew..." said Jonathan giving off a sigh of relief...but then... "Wait a minute though...like Jalie being able to transform from rabbit to part-human...does this dog have a transformation too...? It can't just be a normal dog..."

Jonathan then looks at the dog with suspicion.

"We also have to find the other person too while we're at it..." said Jonathan

"We'll help", Ren and Azumi told Jonathan in unison. However when Azumi saw a dog pass by, she yelped in fear. This reaction caused Ren to groan out of being annoyed.

"Kitsune fear Dogs", Ren noted, "As a dog person, it sucks 'cause now I can't own one without her crying about it..."

"Excuse me!", Azumi scolded Ren, "I had good reason to fear such animals back in my day, thank you very much! Would you like me to ground you after this horrible situation ends?"

"I'm 24..."

"So?"

"...You're still my mother", Ren blushed.

"Good", She smiled back at Ren's obedience.

Ren then turned to Jonathan before asking, "Who're we after then? Turuilla? Or another victim?"

Azumi also remembered Sirius' reminder of warding themselves. So the fox spirit did, along with her summoner and Jonathan.

"This should be enough to protect us from any psychic influences that the sandman may inflict on us"

He wiggled a bit before going to Jonathan wagging his tail and doing a bit of an excited dance and he offered Jonathan his paw.

"Awww, hi!" Jalie coos at the dog and her ears perk up as she crouches down to his level. She holds her hand out to Thor for him to sniff.

"No, I'm pretty sure he's a normal dog." She tells Jonathan. "How in the world did he get here though? Poor thing.."

"Kitsune are afraid of dogs?! How--er...never mind..." said Jonathan as he shakes his head "Better not press the issue, something tells me I'll be in for it...especially what I'm getting off of Azumi here with Ren..."

"Jalie said there were two, so this dog is one, and now we need to find the other person...or this other sandman... I've mapped out, and seen a good deal of the city here already, but I have no idea where we should look for this person... Jalie, can you try and pinpoint where this second person is? I hope he or she is close by...and not in that underground shelter which is definitely locked tight..." said Jonathan

Then Thor tried to play cute with his little dance and offered his paw to him. As suspicious as he should be, seeing Thor act like that has pretty much won him over.

"Hey, now...aren't you a bit cute and talented, huh...?" said Jonathan with a smile as he shakes Thor's paw and rubs and scratches his head "Hmm...caring for him is going to be tough without meat...I did find a few frozen chunks when I was out exploring earlier, so I can thaw and let him have that..."

"Huh? Oh yeah." Jalie moves closer to Jonathan to look at the map. "Wow, reading maps is not my forte.." She looks at the map for a while before she slowly points to a spot. "Right here, I think. They're just inside the building on the map. It's odd, they haven't moved for a while."

"Alright then, we'll check out this area and see what we can find. Let's not stay too long separated, we haven't tested the wards to see if it'll really stop the sandman from chasing us...and worse we could fall into an eternal slumber how what happened with Turuilla, so everyone be on guard... Anyone who's willing to come with, follow me; the rest can hold down the fort while we'll be gone for a short while." said Jonathan

Jonathan would then head in the direction where Alice is likely located thanks to Jalie's help...assuming if he or they can find her before something bad happens to her...

Thor would trot alongside Jonathan. The look in his eyes was as if Jonathan was the only thing in the world. He would look at Jalie and went to her and rubbed his head against her leg as if saying "I like you too" before he reclaimed his position walking next to Jonathan.