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Eli and Mutt weaved between the now familiar tombstones of the Boneyard, their direct steps seeming to carry a purpose. They trudged past the largest tombs, moving over half-way across the yard to stop beside a sad-looking wooden cross. Well... it was almost a cross. Two sticks had been tied together with a strip of leather, and the letters L-I-L-Y could barely be distinguished, roughly carved in the wood.

Eli ran his fingers along one arm of it before flopping down next to the grave. He seemed to lose himself as he stared at the ground, hands idly twirling frayed strings on his pant cuffs.

Mutt ran between the graves, nose to the ground, exploring. As dogs so like to do. His Eli-radar must have been turned on high, for he was almost immediately atop Eli once the youth had sprawled out next to the cross to watch the clouds. The mongrel rested his chin between his paws on the human's chest, and was happy to stay there. This is what the afternoons are FOR, after all!

Feyd was rather surprise they hadn't heard, the fliers had been everywhere. "It is public. Marius Quinn, or something like that. Him and his companion-- hold on, I've got it here." Feyd paused, fishing around his vest pocket for a moment before drawing out two papers which he set about unsticking from each other, muttering an low apology followed by an even lower curse.

He soon separated the two, one a card, his Fool card, the other one of the many fliers. Briskly he repocketed the card, offering the flier to them to read.

It seemed everyone knew about these cards but Feyd himself. How annoying. And what exactly did Elliot mean by 'might have been'? And why did he look like the cat that swallowed the canary? He hadn't been talking to Grondax had he? Rising from his seat Feyd would have begun interrogating the boy but he was interrupted by Adalei and her distress.

"You knew him?"

Feyd was begining to think that the pair enjoyed confusing him... and that they seemed to like his windows a lot better than his doors. He didn't really want to intrude or inturrupt but for the third time today questions had been stirred up and Feyd was too keen on letting the answers just go flying out his window. (Again).

"Stop it? It'll probably be loaded with Peace Enforcement troups. I know you can blast windows open and all," He's seen first hand, "but it's a public execution! Interfering will be suicide!" He had no love for Sehket of his goverment, and he was growing fond of his new (and strange) aquintences, he had no desire to see the latter hurt by the former.

Feyd attempted to follow their conversation, eyes flickering between the two as they talked—it wasn’t easily. However he did get the idea what this Quinn liked crowds. A protester maybe? Would he give a speech? It seemed the pair were more worried about stopping is man then saving him.

The mention of the card caused Feyd to blink. It was really getting to be strange, everyone seemed to know so much more about it them he did, first the girl at the bakery, now these two. Maybe that’s what the fortune teller meant when she said the card would change his like. Feyd wasn’t sure he’d ever had so many unanswered questions in his life.

Despite his confusion he obliged, fishing from his pocket the card which he held out for them to see.

It wasn’t long before the duo found themselves at the door of their house. Hikari opened the door a gave a quick look around. When nothing seemed out of place, she entered her home and closed the door behind her.

“Yami?” She called out, in hopes her sister had returned from whatever outing it was she went on. When she got no response, she tried again, her voice shaking. “Y-Yami! Where are you?” Fear seemed to finds its way around her heart, gripping it tight.

Her and Miaka had been out all day! How come Yami wasn’t here?

She forced herself to take calming breaths, realizing it would do her no good should she go into panic mode. She needed a calm cool head in order to find her sister. The soft coos of the child in her arms also reminded her it would do even less good for her to get mugged because of the gold her other was sporting.

“Lets go do something to hide those.” Hikari told Parvati before moving to her room, pulling out a box from underneath her bed. “I’ve got something in here for you, okay? So sit still while I find it.” She murmured to the child, placing her down on the floor.

Taking this as a chance to explore Miaka crawled off and examined any and every content in the room. Hikari was too busy fiddling with the box to even take notice of this though. She neatly placed her dress on the side before grabbing the edge of a rag she noticed at the bottom of the box.

With a small tug the rags came out of the box, books spilling out in the process. “Ugh!” The dancer let out a frustrated noise before placing the rags she had dug up on top of her dress, moving to clean up the mess. However she stopped short of the action, thinking.

Her fingers grabbed the nearest book that fell out, a light blue one with the designs of a dragon, and flipped through the pages. Sure enough the pages were void of any text what so ever. Chewing on her bottom lip she reached for the next one. This one too, was blank.

Ever slowly an idea found its way into her head. Quickly she turned to see Miaka attempting to pull her tattered blanket off of her bed. “Miaka dear, come here.” The girl spoke, as if she truly expected the child to listen to her. Sure enough, her request fell on deaf ears.

Shaking her head, she hurriedly put the books except for two back in the box. Closing it she stood up and made her way to the child who was now nibbling on the corner of the blanket. “Hey you. That’s not for eating.” Hikari spoke as she picked up Miaka who let out a squeal.

5 minutes later saw to a Miaka dawned in rags to hide bracelets, and a Hikari walking out of the house with Miaka and a box full of books in her arms

Mind buried in thoughts of the execution, Feyd, and Yami, Hikari was completely oblivious to the woman before her. So when she heard the “Hello!” it was easy to understand why she almost dropped her box of books and Miaka from shock.

“H-h-h-hello” Hikari stuttered out, faintly noticing she was stuttering more then usual. The sudden reaction causing Miaka to fuss. What was causing her mom to act so weird? Eventually she managed to get the makeshift hood Hikari had over her head off, displaying her rather pink hair.

Thankfully, she kept most of her expensive jewelry hidden though.

“Uh....Um...” nothing seemed to come out of her lips. So Miaka answered for her with her new found skill.

“Phhhhhbt!!”

As the small form approached, stray dogs of the Boneyard became alert, their hunger renewed. Though they tumbled over their own too-thin legs to confront the girl, they suddenly paused as they came within her vision. Ears pricked, they stood quite still, some sniffing the air with quivering nostrils. Another moment passed before they scurried away again, yelping and terrified of what they had found.

Within minutes, she neared the man she was seeking, her feet crunching brittle bones.