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Harrison wrangled Killer from where he was tied up, and tucked the herpicorn protectively under one arm, like a very fat football.



"These are Clarice's experiments," he said.

Her injuries were healing well, but she still needed the occasional trip to the infirmary, just to be on the safe side; it would be bad if any of these injuries end up affecting her future performance, after all... She wasn't about to let any of those Halloween creatures get the better of her. Not anymore.

However, as she walked into the normally relatively empty room, she quickly realized that there seemed to be something going on inside... Not that she could figure out what just by looking.

"... What are you guys doing."

"Oh, Clarice's minipets?" Ariane hummed, looking mildly concerned as she walked over to one of the cabinets "Better get to it fast then... Clarice told me once that minipets that had been out of their cages for too long will start to melt." She might had shuddered at the thought of foxfires melting, only because they have those soulless, adorable eyes and that dorky expression...

Moving over to one of the cabinets, she begun to look through the shelving for some first aid supplies, frowning when she couldn't find any... Which led her to push the nearby push cart away...

...

"I think I just found them," She kept her eyes on the fluff balls, just in case they tried to bolt, "Two of them, right?"

The Moon Hunter's usual smile turned suddenly a little too sweet as she turned to Harrison, one hand still holding a Fear-stained knife, staring at the trainee as an owner would to a disobedient puppy. "Come here with the minipet Stevie, come here."

Though the volume and general tone of her voice did not change, there was just something not right about it.

"Stevie," Julie repeated again, this slightly more ominously, "Please don't make me come there and get you."

When Harrison didn't seem in any sort of proposition to move, the Moon Hunter simply walked closer, large kitchen knife still in one hand. Something was dripping off the bladed tip, staining the floor with red splatters to decorate the blotches - except that minipets actually didn't really bleed, so where the red came from was another matter entirely.

Tap. One step closer. Tap-tap. Another step closer. Five more steps and she was standing right in front of Harrison, knife gleaming as she raised it-

- and put it back in her apron pocket. From her other pocket, she pulled out a set of pink hair clips, clipping some to the Moon Hunter trainee's hair. "There we go, that's much better." Never mind that Harrison didn't really have hair that really needed clipping.

A strange fizzling noise distracted Julie for just a second as she was in the process of pulling out more hairclips to decorate her victim's scalp with. She pursed her lips as she stared somewhere in the vague direction of Harrison's elbow. "Now see what you've done, it's spent too much time outside the cage and is now dissolving."

And Killer was indeed, dissolving into a black misty nothingness.

The Moon Hunter simply picked up the cage and set it back on the counter. On the bright side, at least Killer had stopped dissolving. She paused for a second upon listening to Harrison's rather adamant instructions before deciding to do what she did best: absolutely ignoring them. "Yes, that's nice." Julie dismissed entirely, thankfully forgetting entirely that she was supposed to be gutting a specific kind of minipet. "How about a mission Stevie? If you fetch me those cute minipets that the trainees brought home and bring them back here, I will call Clarice or someone to pick them up, okay?"

A winning smile. A winning Julie smile. "Or you can call anyone yourself to help put the extra minipet supplies away... though it is so very late."

It wasn't the time that mattered to Candace, it was the timing. She had actually been sleeping, curled up happily in her bed having very, very pleasant dreams until he text tone of her phone startled her awake. Huh?! What?! She looked beside her to find she was in her own bed. Alone. Damnit! It'd been a dream?! Son of a...! Whoever texted her had better have a damn good reason for doing so.

...Okay Harrison could wake her anytime.

Wait. Killer? Why was Killer in the kitchen?! And at his hour?! What the hell, Harrison! Candace sighed and threw her coat and scarf on over her pajamas, glad she'd opted for actual pajamas and not the nighties she wore for Jerry. She didn't even put on proper shoes, just a pair of fuzzy purple slippers and then finally Atropos' rings.



It didn't take her long to hurry to the kitchen, but she did linger at the door to just stare with horror at the sight before her. What the hell was this?! A butcher shop run by Julie?! Where did this blood come from oh god what is this mess! "What's...why are these minipets out of the labs?" Candace was so confused. No wonder Killer was going to die!

Julie wasn't too sure what Harrison meant by 'hostage exchange', that is, until Candace walked in, looking well, reasonably confused. The Moon Hunter brightened considerably. "Oh I get it, your giving me your friend Tracey for this minipet."

Wait who on earth was-

- Without another word, Julie latched onto Candace, and pulled the Mist Hunter trainee towards the counter, giving Harrison a nod of approval as she gestured towards the counter. Harrison could take Killer now, the payment was fair.

Before Candace could say another word, Julie had already handed the trainee the eggbeater and a large metal bowl of questionable contents. Yes, those were indeed tentacles sticking out along with... various tiny organs. "Make sure to mix thoroughly Tracey, these need to be mixed for at least two hours."