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03RD Bark | Baptism by Fire [Closed]

Who: Toby Allaway

firefandance, Ronan O'Connor

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What: Bounty: Baptism by Fire
Where: Everglade

[Everglade doesn't ever stop being creepy. It doesn't bother Toby, in fact he's used to it. What he isn't used to is the insistent scent of burnt timber that drifts through the air. Instinctively he follows the smell stopping at the edge of a smoldering house. He has to pause because the next scent that hits him is more than just alarming, it's familiar.

Burnt flesh.

He swallows, inspecting the house from the outside before slipping in through the front door. It isn't locked and even if it had been it wouldn't have put up much of a fight. Towering at six feet and five inches, he isn't hard to spot stepping into the burning house.]

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[She nodded slightly. She figured she would get questioned because of who she is. She doesn't show off her abilities or anything after all except to a select few anyway.]

I am and for how I can help, I'm use to having to investigate, I've done a few bounties myself and if we find the killer and they attack with fire I will be able to handle it.

[Thanks to her persona is kind of nulls or at least makes it less hurtful to her, so she figured she would take the attack should something come around. But with that done and sorted she paused for a moment.]

How recently?

What, did you wake up on the fireproof side of the bed this morning?

[He scoffs at his own joke, realizing it was a pretty bad one, and glances over to Toby. So far, he didn't see a lot of footprints disturbing the ash, but he did notice, just by looking at it, that this place went up quick.]

Okay, I'm with the kid. How recently? Was the place still burning? Did he stay afterward? Can you pick up which way he...or she headed?

[This might actually be a woman. Women were really good at vengeance violence, and tended toward less direct means of murder: fire, poison.]

[It takes every bit of Toby's self control not to smile at Ronan's joke. It's the sort of bad joke he can get behind and continue. Though now really isn't the time.

Toby leans against a wall, one he knows can support the extra weight and stares at the pair of them. He's silent for a long moment before finally deciding to speak. When he does it sounds more like a formal report, some habits doesn't die.]

Smoldering, no and Male. [He turns from answering Ronan's questions to Yukiko.] He was here within the last half hour.

[Which is why Toby really doesn't look like he's in a rush. He can smell the magic, it's something he's had to do a hundred times before now.]

Magic was used, I can pick up the trail.

[Yukiko had chosen to ignore the joke at least, she had been more focused on catching whoever did this so things would get better, or as better as Everglade will be.]

So if it was within an hour, that means he couldn't have gone too far. [She paused briefly, pick up the trail of magic?]

So it means you can track it somehow?

Being able to track him's all well and good, but if he's got magic, who knows what he could do to cover his trail?

[He looks around.]

I'll take a look around, see if I can't get an idea who these people were. If it's personal, we might find a link. [And he looks to Toby.] Meaning if you lose him, we might still be able to find him.

[The corner of Toby's lips tug into a light smirk.]

Magic has a scent, it's only a trace and it's hard to pick up but it's there if you know what to look for. [He's trained himself over the last twenty years to be able to pick up the scent.]

I can follow it or we can stay here and investigate.

[He shrugs.]

Your call.

[If the trail becomes to faint he'd have to shift to pick it back up, which isn't something he's keen on doing with company.]

I think if we follow the scent, odds are likely we'll find them.

[She knows full well how the power of scent can be like. That's how Teddie found the place she was at all that time ago. She she wanted to believe it could work here.]

But yet I can understand wanting to investigate a bit longer. But if we catch him first we can investigate later, right?

[Ronan looked between the two of them, looking thoughtful for a moment before finally nodding.]

Let's get this guy. We can come back and figure out the why about this house later.

[Toby nods his head and turns. He isn't the sort of person to wait around and in a few large strides he's out the door. For a moment he pauses before walking quickly along the street. The trace is faint but just strong enough that he can pick it up without shifting.

Those with shorter legs might need to jog to keep up with Toby as he moves through the city. He knows this city pretty well and after a few minutes of walking he has a rough guess as to where this guy is hiding.]

In there.

[He nods his head towards a particularly shady bar.]

Given the trace he entered 5 minutes ago. He's either still in there or there is a back door.

[Yukiko started to follow, the whole while her hand was near her bag just in case a fight happens. Because one never knows. Yukiko knew she had to keep up and started to pick up the pace, going a little faster.

When the other had stopped, she managed to stop herself. Her eyes soon looking over the bar. She soon went to the entrance.]

I'll go in and check it out.

[Ronan walks up behind her and puts his hand on her shoulder, glancing to Toby for a moment before he says anything to the girl.]

Hey, hey, hey. Wait a minute. Look at yourself, willya? You don't go here, kid. You want to broadcast to the whole bar we're looking for someone?

[Toby can't help but agree with Ronan. He finds Yukiko's persistence annoying. If she went inside she'd stick out and their target would most likely get away. He assumed she is smart but most likely too eager to prove herself to think of a plan beyond stepping inside of the bar. She isn't completely unlike his own race which only worries him more.]

He's right. There is probably a backdoor. You stand there, Ronan or I will go inside while the other stands at the front door.

[It's a plan and with the three of them they'll be able to corner the fire starter.]

If there is a back door then shouldn't we find that, first? Then plant one by that door, one by the other and only one needing to go in?

[Sometimes she does think up ideas because one standing out was one thing, but two would make it even more obvious.]

If you don't want me to go in, I won't. But then choosing to both go in is the exact same idea you just told me not to do.

[Ronan nods.] Yeah, kid. I know. [He looks to Toby.] Go around back. If he seems me coming, he'll head that way first. [And then he looks to Yukiko.] Stay here, try not to look conspicuous. Sound good?

[Toby's pretty sure she had just repeated what he said. Though she's far more skilled at using words than he is. She doesn't seem like the type to play well with others, but then neither is he. Much like him, she'll hurt people more trying to protect them.

He nods at Ronan and then moves around to the back of the building. It isn't hard for him to tell where there is foot traffic and after scaring off a few people he takes his position at the back of the bar. This is the more logical place to exit but then they have no idea how smart their target is.

Now he just has to wait for Ronan to go inside. He has his back to the wall and his ears perked hoping to hear whatever might be going on in the building.]

[Yukiko paused for a moment. Wondering about the possibility of there being more than two exits. Like a hidden one people could use. She would be surprised considering Everglade, but she would have no way of actually knowing.

However she moves away, moving to take a closer looking around the building, just checking before finally taking a spot away from the door to not look too out of place, but yet at the same time still able to see the door. She was still worried though that there might be a secret door possibly, but she couldn't do much about that right now.

People were still coming in and out of the place as well as Yukiko was keeping tabs on who before leaning back slightly, checking to see the others reaction. Didn't seem like any of them were the person it seemed.]

[Once his lookouts were in place, Ronan adjusts his lower over his eyes and swaggers inside the establishment. It's dim here, and tobacco smoke hangs low in the air. No one turns at his entrance. He knows the type of place: where deals never meant to see daylight happen under tables while barkeeps flash friendly smiles. It was a place where discretion ruled and everyone kept to their own business.

It was the perfect place for a fugitive to hide. If he didn't know who he was looking for, no one would have seen anyone suspicious. Grey eyes scan the crowd, looking for anyone with their heads down, looking to remain inconspicuous, when a form, a little smaller than him, raising quickly from a back table and darts toward the kitchen.

Ronan reaches for his service pistol.]

Hey! Freeze!

[That only seems to give the runner fuel as he darts through the back room, heading toward the rear exit, Ronan close on his heels.]

[Toby's eyes are closed when he hears the quick sounds of the chair scraping across the wood floor and then frantic heartbeat of the man running towards the back exit. He is leaning against the opening side of the door and when the man bolts through his hand reaches out, grabbing the culprit around the neck.

A scream is quieted by Toby's grip but it is still loud enough that Yukiko will be able to hear the commotion.

The man looks breakable next to the towering werewolf, his eyes frantic as Ronan catches up. He doesn't want to be caught and he begins to call on the magic that he's familiar with. Fire. Heat begins to sear Toby's arm but for the moment, he doesn't let go.]

[It was most certainly loud enough for Yukiko to actually move and check it out, seeing what she was able to. Well she was pretty sure they were being a little too rough, but she figured if she said anything both would again disagree with her.

At least in her head anyway. However there was one thing she was good at, using her fan to hit people with. So holding it firmly she aimed it with such precision that she hit the guy while he was trying to use his magic, getting him to stop while her fan came back to her hand. She just hope that would have stunned him long enough to take him where they needed to take him.]

[Ronan stumbled out the door, not due to clumsiness, but simply because they were a lot closer to the rear exit to the establishment than he'd anticipated, and he had momentum working against him. Yukiko's fan did more than interrupt the guy. I'd knocked him out cold, and Ronan was just fine with that.

He nods to Toby, then reaches into the pocket of his vest, pulling out a pair of handcuffs. They might not have had a chance of holding Toby if need be, but for a perfectly mundane human mage, they would work just fine, provided he stayed unconscious long enough.

As he slips the shining metal around the guy's wrists while Toby holds him, Ronan lets his eyes move to Yukiko.]

Good job, kid. [And he smirks as he locks the cuffs in place.] You know what I miss? [He was speaking generally now, rather to anyone specific.] Reading a perp his rights.

[Toby's grip relaxes slightly. He has no intention of killing the guy and he knows that he probably could if he continued holding the man by the neck. Once he's cuffed Toby throws the man over his shoulder like a rag doll.]

Nothing is stopping you.

[It isn't as if the unconscious body is going anywhere any time fast.]

Let's go.

[Toby isn't interested in this guy waking up and setting on him. It won't kill him but it would hurt.]

[She put the fan away before following suit, keeping quiet for just a moment before stopping.]

Oh, should we gather some evidence from the actual crime scene so that well we have it. Just him being shifty and having the same powers doesn't mean it was them for sure after all.

[Considering the time they had chases someone it turned out that they were just doing something else shifty.]

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[Ronan nods.] That was the plan, kid. Now that we have a suspect in custody, we can build a case against him.

[While it wasn't technically part of the job, he was still used to being a cop.] What we need to do is find something that links this shmuck to the crime scene. We already know he's got the means.

[Toby starts walking back towards the smoldering building. He assumes whatever it is that they have to do they have to do it quickly. At least before others get there and begin poking around.]

I'll keep an eye on him.

[He gestures to the man draped across his shoulder. Toby will be able to tell if he wakes and it won't be to much trouble to knock him about again.]

[She nodded as she carefully went back inside. She wasn't sure what exactly she was looking for, but she was going to try her hardest to find something that linked the culprit to the crime scene.]

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