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Raven smirks; she likes calling her Little better. She also likes the idea of getting to her Lisa, her real Lisa, but knows that may have to wait. "Let's go find you some new clothes." The realization that they'd probably be snatching the clothes of some other deceased child doesn't yet cross her mind. When it inevitably does, she tries her best to bury it. Those thoughts don't belong to someone like her.

As she trots toward a new house, leaping over a carcass mangled beyond recognition (she tries hard not to stop and stare at it), she hums a little melody. The tune is both upbeat and eerie. At one point, she stops, turns and stares at the house with the flooded cellar. Raven resolves to return there later and look around. Make sure Tsi'ka is dead.

Hopefully the building won't have shifted on them when they come back. Wen she goes in, she'll also need someone to stare at the building for her; she'll talk to Seo about it later.

And now, with morbid curiosity mounting over fear and horror, her tune feels a little less forced as she walks.

"Yeah i need some new ones."she stood slowly back up , she was still a little sick. "Seo where do we need to search?" Seo looked around and noticed dead bodies "I am not going to where clothes from dead bodies!" "No no , ofcourse not." "There are many houses here , maybe also stores and then we can get you new clothes."

Liliath nodded and followed after Seo who was following Raven.

Here, a different thing: ozone? yes. ozone. a sign. presence. more hate. hate hate hate. saccrifice willingly, find her, HER! kill. KILL! KILL!

[The bursters have failed to find Vincent, but there is another thing to hate. If they could feel emotion, other than hate, and could think well enough to realize it, they would be happy there were two of them, and disappointed there weren't three]

Seo walked to the cat "How are we going to give her clothes?" she noticed a store "Ehh kid , come lets go to the stores." The girl followed after her

Ah, store robbing. That sounds good.

Raven's not adverse to stealing stuff, especially when everyone who might possibly stop her has been tragically struck down by a shapeshifting abomination or the local malovant architecture. She follows Seo and Liliath wherever they go, not doing much to look out for stores because she basically has no idea what to look for.

As they stroll through the dreary, corpse-laden streets, she starts telling stories again, like she did when she went looting with Victi and Sage. She has a new audience, so she feels she can safely recycle some of her tales, and again she's rambling about dragons with fire licking around their jaws and fuzzy-earred people that turn into "giant angry cats with stinging tail-ends." The moral of that story is, "don't pick on a Chimeran shopkeeper in the dead of night."

She doesn't mention that Lisa, who Lil might have met, based on some of the things the child had asked, is a shapeshifting chimera herself this time. She can't tell anyone after Vincent tried to kill Liliath twice while wearing Lisa's face. She hopes to save the twisted Vincent-Liz parallels later, when they reunite and she gets to poke her with a few teasing paws just like good ol' times.

"Looting, fantastic." Lisa doesn't mind the idea of having a few exta weapons but finding the girl takes a slightly higher pirority, especially now that she knows there's a homicidal monster running around and trying to murder people with her face. "I would join you but...there's someone I lost and really need to find before...y-you know."

“Raven!” Liliath yelled after she grabbed a dress and decide to wear it “Do you like it?” She turned around “I also found shoes.” She showed her new pink boots “Raven when I am going to stay with you , then we are going to shop together everyday.” “The people will give us free stuff , cause we are cool people.”

“Are we going to Lisa now?” “I miss her so much.” “Who is Lisa?” Seo asked “She is my best friend , she always acts like a better version of my mommy .” “We can search for her after shopping.” Seo smiled . Liliath nodded , she smiled as Seo grabbed 2 backpacks and filled them with cookies dresses and other stuff “Lets go!”

“Let’s search for Lisa , my bets best friend , she is my best friend so we need to find her and after we found her we are going to eat cookies and then we go back home and then I stay with Lisa and Raven my best friends!” Liliath singed well she danced

On a hunch Victi asked, "Do they happen to be a small child with no situational awareness or a six meter carapaced critter with eight limbs and a platinum band inset into its carapace around the throat? Because if so, they showed up to Raven, Sage and I a little after the freakshow decided to show your face. The bug was yelling at the nasty to get away from me, when it still looked like you, which is why I ask."

Lisa's eyes widen. "Y-yes! How did you-n-nevermind...is she-are they okay?" (They being Raven and the girl; she doesn't care about Tsi-ka) In her fretful enthusiam, she grabs Victi's shoulders, this time finding it easy to meet her eyes. "Where were they? Did the thing hurt them?"

When Seo snatches the cookies, Raven takes that as a cue to gather more food. She pounces on shelves and knocks over the stuff that she wants: canned meat, jerky, bags of dry bits that smell really good. She giggles as Lil described Lisa as a "better version of my mom," not quite getting the implication that the child has a neglectful mother. It prompts her to talk more about Lisa. "That sounds about right for her; Lisa is really protective, like a first-time mother. And it's really, REALLY important that we find her, especially if she's alone."

“Yes , it’s important.” “Liliath?” Seo asked “What?” “Do you know how to take care of yourself?” “Why should I know that?” “Cause this place is dangerous .” Liliath shrugged “You guys are here to protect me.” “But what if we are gone?” “I don’t know.” Seo sighed “I am gonna learn you how to stay alive without our help.” “Sounds cool!” Liliath smiled

“Should we go now?” Liliath ask after she grabbed a teddybear

Yes, please teach her how to not run off into danger without proper explanation. In fact, Raven decides to give lesson number one:

"First of all, Little, you gotta stop running away. Finding Lisa is important, but this town is dangerous and there's a very evil thing that might be able to turn into whatever it thinks you want. Don't run head-first into danger like that without telling me, because I need to come with you." Raven is an agile and wily creature with a strong nose for sniffing out danger, if Lil wants to do a stupid thing, she'll need her guidance.

Liliath sticked her tongue out , but not in a rude way more playfully “The evil thing is dead.” “So there is no danger.”

“There are other evil things , who like to hurt you.” Seo said “The evil thing is dead.” Liliath repeated . Seo sighed irritated “Should we go now?” Liliath asked “I wanna see Lisa.”

Victi glared at Lisa as the girl grabbed at her shoulders, and grabbed her upper arms as she did so, applying pressure over the back of her elbows, such that she could bend her arms and break Lisa's if she needed to.

"First off, don't grab me unless you want me to snap your elbows. That would be unhealthy for you. Second, Raven identified it, and then I kicked it into a wall before it scuttled off. Everyone was fine last I saw," she sighed

"Third, asking where they were isn't very helpful. This place rearranges itself when we aren't looking. Where they were relative to us probably isn't the same as where they are now. To find them, we'll have to look for them the hard way. What we can do, though, is guess where they would go," She pointed out, "First though, let's calm down, and loot this place. If we're better prepared, we can help them better."

Lisa chuckles nervously, abashed and fearful for her elbows. She carefully lifts her hands away from Victi's shoulders and lowers her gaze. "I'm sorry-I just...heh." She doesn't look up because she doesn't want Victi to see that she's struggling not to cry. "You're right. I can't sh- I don't have my magic." Victi had spent some time with Raven, so she probably already knows about Lisa's powers, but explaining that she is actually a natural shapeshifter suddenly seems like a bad idea. "I'd be useless against that thing as I am now."

"Fancy shifting tricks and some witchcraft, right? That's what Raven said, at least," she said, letting go of Lisa's biceps, "Would be awesome if you did, but at least you might have enough idea about magic that maybe we can figure out what's going on with it here. Again though, let's grab stuff, and then take a bit to plan. We're stuck without our best tricks here, so we need to work smarter now."

Raven suspects that she could count down this child's remaining lifespan in seconds, on a single paw. "Fine. Let's just grab that bag of dry meat on the floor and get out of here."

But before they leave, she stops at the doorway and leaves a scent mark in the doorway, then finds something wooden to claw on, leaving visual and scented clues that she had visited this place. She has two reasons: if someone she cares about, say Lisa or Victi, comes by, they might recognize the markers and if she herself finds her way back here, she'll know for sure that this place isn't new and it might be safe.

“Ok!” Liliath grabbed it for Raven “Lets find Lisa.” Liliath already runned to the left side , but then realized she wasn’t supposed to run away so she came back ‘Are there any other rules?” She then asked

"As a matter of fact, yes," says Raven. "Where do I start? Don't approach anyone until I get to sniff and interrogate them. Even if it looks like a friend, it might be a nasty." She pauses, what else? "Be careful with houses. We do NOT want another near-drowning, understand?" Her fur is still wet and heavy and cold from the catastrophe in the basement. "And...that's it from me. How 'bout you, big human?" She means Seo, but is blanking on her name.

In the darkening street corners of this mysterious place, a careless eye might miss the subtle tremor of movement among the shadows. Such lack of awareness was always to Masato Ikari's benefit. His helmeted gaze reached beyond his rifles optical scope, as the out-of-place space warrior observed the movement of two bodies within the building. The single-focused silence in which he observed befitted his only ally, a green metal awning covered in vines, from which he layed prone among its many tenticular limbs. Resting his firearm by the nearest one, he slow panned the killing machine left to right to encompass everything in front of him.

Two at one-fifty, he mouthed in silence behind his headgear's polarized visor. At one hundred fifty meters, that was close enough with unknown potential enemies. The slight Click-Click of the adjustment knob on the scope sounded loud to him in the silence. The color of the paint and creeping plant blended seamlessly with his own jungle camouflaged armor, hiding his fingers motions as he adjusted the magnification. The targets were in mid conversation. They didn't seem to be armed, or have any clothing recognizable as uniforms. From this angle, he couldn't make out any facial features.

Building up ahead. Possible weapons and munitions inside, though nothing seen on the two targets persons. For that matter, nothing could be seen of their faces. Hardly any features either. He could guess that they were bipeds though -- at least from how they stood. And judging by 21st century look of things, can't be anything but human too... Which amounts to knowing ****all!

Muscles strained as teeth did grind together in frustration. Just like his recon, he was completely out of depth from lack of reliable info. The facts were he had been wandering through this town for nearly seven hours. Things beyond that in memory were a bit hazy. Like an old Polaroid, the last twenty-four hours was warped and murky, with places and people put together that shouldn't be. And to top it off, nothing in his kit worked. Or worked reliably anymore. Night-vision, infrared, facial-rec; all non responsive. Comm-link and Omni-tool only put out static or a blank welcome screen, so there went his communications. Hell, even the seals of his armor failed to respond to voice-touch command. That means he was locked in the protective prison until he could pry the bloody things off!

As if to prove the point, the Alliance jarhead looked away from the scope, and slammed his helmet-covered head against the awning with a headbutt. Nothing gained from impact, but the slightest prick of contact between his forehead and the helmets cushion. The lack of result, even if would have been painful, only pissed him off more. Picking up his rifle, he rolled off the awning to the obscure shadows below. Making his way in hunched-over sprints, he carefully timed all movement to be as quick and minimal. He went toward the locations back exit -- rifle ready to fire; a longer route, but one he doubted they would suspect...