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If Sox had learned any skill growing up as heiress to a highly controvertial and valuable company, it was how to read people. Other Animals who thought of her family as traitors or boot-lickers, humans who were so certain that they must be criminals and cheaters to keep their position, people from either side who wanted to take them over. She needed to know how to recognize them, and she had gotten very good at that art.

So when the primate in front of her tried to claim he was fine, she didn't even need his scent to tell her that he really wasn't as okay as he claimed.

"Someone who's doing okay doesn't have tear stains on their fur and a broken guitar, while walking down the shoulder of an expressway," she answered, voice playful but sympathetic, "If you're heading downtown, or at least want to head there to catch a train to wherever you're going, I can do that. I have a forest to get to and a kid to find, but I get the feeling she'll be okay for another couple minutes. Someone else is already helping her, and I'm the only one helping you."

"If you have a missing kid, I should probably be the one helping you," he says suddenly. His ears perk up and a small, sad and shy smile lights his face. The chance to stall returning to his family ("I told you so," they'll all say.) by helping someone out sounds like an opportunity he ought not to pass up.

"Let me come with you- I-I mean, may I come with you, ma'am?"

All according to plan. "I wouldn't mind some help. Sure! Come with!" she said, popping the storage box on the back of the bike open.

"Should be able to fit your broken friend in there for now. If this goes well, I'll see if I can get someone to fix 'em up for you," she offers, pulling her bulky purse out. She wanted it on top so she could grab it easily later.

Liliath sighed and walked out the house , she didn't care about danger she needed to get to a better place "Kid where are you!" Liliath saw Seo but walked away from her , she wanted to see the Fox not Seo. "Kid! , i am sorry ok you should go back before my dad finds you!" All lies Liliath thought . Then she heared Seo turning around . Oh no Liliaht thought and started to run out of the woods. Liliath then noticed a car a car she knew. It couldn't be not him. Where was that Fox?

Raptor saw all of the action happen and decided he should steer clear of it, in case it was a government issue. He went inside his house and closed his door and windows. After making sure they were all triple locked, he grabbed some weapons and gear before sitting in his chair and waiting for the situation to clear.

He breaks into a broad, excited grin as he places the guitar in the box. If Sox offers him a hand onto the bike, he doesn’t notice or bother with it. He leaps onto the motorbike behind her and waits there for permission to hold her waist or something. “Thank you!” He says earnestly.

"I'd recommend you grab on. I plan on getting us there nice and quick," she says with a chuckle, pleased by his enthusiasm. She moved her long fluffy tails out of the way to give him room on the bike. She'd had them sat on before, and that was never fun.

She adjusts a couple settings on the small control and display panel between the handlebars: No false sound, and speed limiter off. Like she said, she planned on going fast, and maximizing said speed while not letting anyone who wasn't seeing them anyway know she was going that fast seemed smart.

All that she was waiting for now was for her passenger to hold on. He seemed like he wouldn't be the type to have his arms "accidentally" start creeping up her body, at least. He seemed far more interested in her ride than in her, positively or negatively. Nice change of pace.

Liliath was now walking where Sox would be , she heared behind her some cars , she could also hear his car. Something which made her upset. She was happy to be out the woods but she wasn't really happy with the fact that she couldn't find anymore where she could talk to

Chiro hesitates, but eventually nods and wraps his arms around Sox’s waist. He also tries to peer over her shoulder at the motorbike’s display as she messes with the settings, his eyes gleaming with excited curiosity.

Feeling his arms wrap around her waist, she says "here we go," before making her bike tear out from the edge of the highway nearly silently, with just a slight squeal of rubber.

It takes only three minutes or so before her sharp eyes catch sight of the slight movements of Liliath crouched at the edge of the treeline. She slows down and pulls over.

"There she is," Sox says as they get down to more speach-friendly speeds, "lucky we found her before she got lost or anything, though I'm surprised she's all the way out here...."

Liliath could feel someone was here , the Fox maybe? But there were also bad people around here . Liliath also thought she noticed the Fox but she wasn't sure if it was the Fox

The girl was down the incline next to the raised highway, and probably didn't have a good line of sight yet. Sox tapped Chiro's hands to get him to let go, and hopped off her bike before walking over to the top of the slope, hopefully now fully visible to the little hybrid.

"You doin' okay down there?" she asked playfully.

He slides off of the seat but stays near the bike. He sees the child Sox is talking about: a small, timid little creature with wooly fur and ill-fitting clothes she probably meant to use as a disguise.

He lingers near the bike, smiling. He waves at the child and lets Sox coax her out of the timber.

Liliath looked up a little shocked but then she smiled a little . And runned over the Fox to hug her "He is here."

Sox.... didn't like the sound of that.

"Okay, come over here, wait by the bike," she instructed, "Let me get my bag out. I'll get you a snack, okay?"

She was very much planning on getting out more than a snack. That as well, she wasn't lying, but she also had a very shiny pistol she was worried she might need soon. She pulled out a couple snack bars which she gave to the girl (she kept those in her bag in case she got hungry waiting for things), leaving the weapon in the bag while she loaded it. With the types of nasties in these woods? Armour-peircing seemed good.

After that was ready, and hopefully nobody had seen it, she slung the bag over her shoulder, letting it rest just in reach of her right hand, and brought out her phone to send Seo a text, letting her know which exit they were closest to and that they'd found the girl.

Liliath calmly walked to the bike , thankfully smiled while she ate her snack "He is here." she said again "I don't wanna go back."

"Smart girl. I'll wait until Seo can text me back, so I know she knows you're okay," Sox reassures with a smile, "Do you have any idea where you'd like to go now? If we can get you somewhere that's safe in the long term, I think that would be good for everyone."

"Seo ."she said soft

meanwhile Seo got the texted and almost jumped 'Thank you , i'll come back soon as i can but my dad is around"
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Liliath shook her head then nodded "You." she pointed to Sox , then she noticed his car again and then she was his brown evil eyes "Go!"

The absolute beast of a car (She was still not quite clear when you could just cut to the chase and call something like that a limo) pulling onto the freeway made the fur on her back stand up straight. Not just because it was an obviously armoured limo with tinted windows, but because it wasn't just driving down the freeway. It was prowling down the freeway. Sox honestly had no idea what to do here. It was going to see her bike either way, and know that at least something was up. On the other hand, other than speeding, which they couldn't prove she had been doing, they were doing nothing illegal. Hell, she even actually had a concealed carry permit.

On the other hand....

She rolled her bike a bit down the slope, hopefully concealing it from easy sight, but not far enough that saying she was trying to avoid taking up the shoulder or getting hit in a drive-by shooting would be unreasonable. Those were both realistic, what with human-driven vehicles having priority for shoulder use, merging, etc, and the fact that she'd had to get the paintjob on her car redone after it got scratched by bullets a year or so ago, while she was on the shoulder waiting for a tow after a tire had gone flat. She was happy she'd had the body upgraded before that.

Now, hopefully hidden, and dragging Chiro with her, she sat on the slope, quickly inputting a command to make the bike's console give a "check engine" warning as an additional excuse if she needed it.

"Are we going?" Liliath asked curious and nervous well she jumped on each foot