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Her ears twitched at the arrival of a fourth voice. She distinctly counted three, so why was there another—As Dev turned around she only managed to catch a brown blur before the red-and-white-striped candy cane clearly came into view and smacked her, toppling her over.

“Aw! Fur th’ loove ay Jack!” she howled, rubbing at the areas the gingerbread man had swung at. She folded her ears back and her fur bristled. The ghoul lay sprawled across the maul floor, spending a moment to just glare at the Jackdamned creature before getting back to her feet. Dev looked thoroughly pissed. She couldn’t stop growling and curling her fingers into fists. She was going to tear that hideous creature to pieces! No mercy. No remorse. “Lit me at it!”

She had been too slow, though. Boozle and Imryn had already finished it off. Dev huffed, but at least it wouldn’t be bothering her anymore. “If ah see anither ay those things ah’ll rip it tae shreds!”

"Dev!" Boozle said, running over to the ghoul with a look of worry. "Y'alright?" he asked. "That jacker hit pretty hard." He scowled, looking at the place where the gingy guy had been earlier. "Looks like we really do need to find a medic or something," he said to her, glancing at Imryn.

"You did good," he told her quietly. "Those claws are jackin' serious."

Dev gingerly placed a hand on the back of her waist and flinched at the jolt of pain. Jack, that gingerbread man had hit really hard! “Nae, ah can handle at leest this much.” She waved off Boozle, although she gave him an appreciative smile. “’at was some impressife work back there wi’ yer claws.” She half-nodded to Im, revealing a toothy grin at the ghoul’s attempt at a joke. “Bandages ur always welcomed.”

The demon ghoul took slow steps before finally straightening up and walking normally, albeit with a bit of wincing. “Ah’ll be jist fine. A medic soonds guid. Which direction dae ye want tae go?”

"Well... if we can sneak around the main food court area so we don't risk running into that house again, there may be something on the other side. I'm not positive though... heh... it's not one of those things you look for when browsing a new Maul." She suggested, feeling a tad bit since it was easier to focus on the situation at hand to help keep down some of her nervous tendancies. "If nothing else, at least it'll eliminate other areas."

Though she stopped short when Boozle mentioned the lack of shop owners. Come to think of it... she hadn't seen anyone since they were locked in here. Well, anyone that would have been over school age anyways. Did they have some kind of warning and fled without telling anyone...? "You'd think that there would be a few... but... I honestly don't remember seeing any of them around since this mess started."

"Yeah, there's a shop, let's go see if there's anyone in there," Boozle said, pointing at the pet shop. So he might have had ulterior motive, what of it?

((Exiting to the where's my minipet sub-boss? But I can't post until later tonight if you guys wanna go first or go somewhere else!))

She followed Boozle's finger to eye the pet shop. For a couple seconds the demon stared at the store with a quirked brow. Was there a reason he wanted to go there? Dev shrugged. "Okay 'en," she agreed. Dev looked over at Imryn and pointed at the shop. "Ye okay wi' 'at?"

[[ To the minipet sub-boss it is then~ ]]