There were many things that didn't set right with Daniel as the group made their way back to the shore: Kanoa's habit of withholding information, the freakish glowing arm growing out of Jackson's face, and the method of drug delivery that Mary had used. Judging by the way no one freaked the fuck out over the festering protrusion of Jackson's, Danny would have to believe that he had shared it at the pow-wow that Danny had missed or they more focused on getting the boy back home safely. Danny knew that he should be focused on helping the boy they found but as they reached the surface, he couldn't help but think about the kitsune, Yui. 

[i]Yui. Jesus Christ she has a name. If everything goes tits up and it comes down to the wire can we really deal with her? Can I? It's not exactly like they have courts or jails for supernatural creatures do they? Would they understand? She looked to be in the same condition as the boy. And why are you sympathizing with her anyway? It's not exactly like you know her do you? No. You don't have to know the people involved to tell when murder is murder, and the last thing I'm going to do is decapitate someone...to keep them from hurting another person? What if Yu- this creature does this again? What if they learn how little they can help the people they hurt and use it as a justification to eat everything? This whole thing stinks. Until Kanoa gives us more information I'm dead in the water. Heh. Dead in the water. [/i] The small smile that escaped his lips caused him a minor bout of soreness causing him to realize he had been scowling so deeply that his face had practically locked up. 

And so when he finally found his way onto the bank of the lake, he was rubbing his face. "You may want to hold off on drawing, Jackson. We need to get these two someplace proper. I'd like to call an ambulance for our missing person, but if what Kanoa said is true, we need to hang onto him until he's strong enough to survive on his own. As for....the other one. There's this old abandoned cannery by the coastline. It's slightly burned down but it will offer a dry enough place and no one will go snooping while we figure out what to do next."

Scooting back onto shore after emerging from the near frozen depths of the lake, Mary found in her body a peculiar blend of shooting pain, and tingling numbness. She couldn't differentiate the causes of each sensation between the residue of the high-grade sedatives coursing through her body, and the blistering beginnings of hypothermia that assaulted her skin, now paled to a ghostly white. 

Recovering her clothing from behind August, Mary gave a shrug-- a shivering shrug-- as if to quel her own fears and respond in a subtle manner to her cohorts. Mary was beyond a point of question how Orion was still standing after his nude dip-- or what song he was playing. If she hadn't just made out with a magical fox girl, maybe she would have asked him to play some... Guy Clark?

[i]No, not Old No.1...[/i]

But again, she [b]had[/b] just made out with a magical fox demon thing. Her name was Yui. And Mary had basically just sexually assaulted and roofied her in one motion, and then swam through freezing water, using her gills, while her magical acquaintances used magic to carry the bodies of the guy they'd just saved and Yui through the water. 

She was shivering, her jeans felt like lead ice, the leather jacket provided no warmth, and her bra was muddy-

-but GODS DAMN if she didn't feel... [i]alive![/i] 

[i]No! Don't smile idiot! They can't KNOW you're happy or... what else was it she felt as warm blood hit her think pan.[/i]

Anger?

[i]Repress the sanguine [b]and[/b] the choleric...[/i]

Right! Of course! Maintaining appearances, Mary fell into a more natural looking slightly-disappointed-but-sort-of-neutral face, and walked, or more accurately, waddled, over to Jackson and Dan(NARC)ny. Orion seemed to be just finishing up, and there was an exchange held between the three.

"[color=#BE81F7]I'm inclined to agree with our little police spy, here-- at least in the no ambulance regard.[/color]" Resting a dripping elbow on Danny's shoulder, she continued, "[color=#BE81F7]How well do you think a paramedic is going to buy the whole [i]'Oh, you know, it was all a magical fox'[/i] excuse?[/color]" She tilted her head, not waiting for an answer, "[color=#BE81F7]Seriously, we might be the only ones even able to see the tails, at [i]least[/i] three of us are on this guy's Dad's watch-list and like... what club even meets on a Saturday? I wouldn't even be [i]up[/i] this early if I didn't think there was some chance I'd get kiss a magical entity today--.[/color]"

Danny shrugged off her elbow. "Alright what the hell is your problem? You've been giving me dirty looks since I got here. What did I ever do to you!?"

Mary rolled her eyes, "[color=#BE81F7]Problem?[/color]" She parroted, "[color=#BE81F7]Problem with the fact that we're basically doing your Dad's job while he hunts down druggies and tinkerers?[/color]" She glanced to August, "[color=#BE81F7]Nah, no problem.[/color]"

"You said so yourself that we'd be the only ones who could spot the supernatural. So how were you expecting to find that guy over there if he was in what everyone else would think was just a tree? And so what if he's concerned with whether people may possibly fry themselves or end up selling to kids, what does that have to do with me?"

Mary stretched her arms, as if to say 'look around!' "[color=#BE81F7]I'm not expecting them to breath underwater! Apparently all we needed was a basic family recipe from Kanoa for that. I'm just saying-- I don't even see any police tape! How long did the investigation last even? A day? A week?[/color]" 

Pointing in the direction they arrived at the lake from, she carried on, with steadily increasing volume, "[color=#BE81F7]There was TONS of stolen shit back there! You're telling me NO store cameras caught an unidentified dude shoplifting? That store owners didn't [i]ever[/i] report [i]any[/i] stolen inventory? Dude, just...[/color]" She tossed her arms up, "[color=#BE81F7]I'm basically fucking high [i]RIGHT NOW[/i] and that seems like a huge fuck up! On like, everyone's part...[/color]"

Danny's voice easily matched hers in volume, and as he spoke, loose branches cracked and fell, the dirty and mud along the bank deteriorated as his rage grew. "You're really going to wonder why people can't identify a shapeshifter? When it comes to petty thefts people don't think 'oh hey this missing bracelet must obviously be the work of a demon from The Far East! And while we're at it, there have been searches. Whole lines of people linked hand in hand scouring the forest since Ramon -that's his name- Ramon Diaz went missing. Though I'm sure you missed it what with being in that graveyard all the time. Besides! Even someone like me can whammy a camera to make static appear to get by cameras. And by the way, don't try to lecture people on major lapses in logic when you were busy ramming your tongue down some person's throat not five minutes ago."

"[color=#BE81F7]Pffft,[/color]" Mary scoffed, "[color=#BE81F7]Better police work than apparently all of Oakenheim could pull off![/color]" Mary pointed to the sleeping form of Yui, "[color=#BE81F7]Seriously, LOOK at her; shapeshifter or not, there's [i]no[/i] way she managed to steal as much as she did and get knocked cold that easy![/color]"

"And what's that suppose to mean? That mackin' on them right then and there while we were getting answers was the way to go? For fucks sake that stuff could of easily have put you down for the count and then we'd have another person to worry about if the shit hit the fan!"

Mary struck an exaggerated shy pose and did her best imitation of Danny's voice, "[color=#BE81F7]M-my name's Danny, Fox-chan... w-what's yours???[/color]" She gave a dry laugh, "She abducted our dear, sweet, precious Ramon here, and you guys we're practically riding her tails from the get go![/color]"

"Well gosh, Mary, you're right!" Danny said his voice dripping with sarcasm. "In fact, we should just slay 'the beast' right here!" Drawing his Kuhkri he threw it at her feet, the blade sinking until it was halfway in the dirt. "Go ahead, Joan of Arc! Go ahead and liberate us from this horror! After all, it's no big deal to take a life, right?"

Mary's smile was piquant, "[color=#BE81F7]If I'm Joan of Arc... then why were you the one that came here with an actual sword, dude?[/color]" Delicately plucking the word from the dirt, she tossed the thing back to the ground before Danny, "[color=#BE81F7]I don't wanna kill her if we don't have to, Narc-o, but if she gets the strength-- she can hypnotize us, or whatever-- and then we all end up like poor, sweet, innocent Ramon!" 

Mary shifted in her puddle of cold river water, "You were [i]literally[/i] offering to let her feed off of you-- she's got enough drugs to put half of town out for a day-- and you wanted to make her [i]stronger!?[/i][/color]" Stills shivering, Mary gave something of a cheeky smile, "[color=#BE81F7]I'm just saying, homes, maybe don't think as much with your dick next time, y'know?[/color]"

Danny blushed but remained stalwart. "If she- it doesn't eat they'll end up dying and there's plenty of questions I've got. Or did you forget about the fact that she said all the animals disappeared from the forest? I don't know about you but that's pretty god damn suspicious if you ask me and a little quid pro quo goes a long way."

Mary's ire died as she listened to what he had to say-- he was right, they needed her awake-- she wouldn't [i]admit[/i] he was right out loud, she still resented him-- or rather, her perception of what he represented-- but she could at least agree with him in that they needed to somehow speak to the sexy Japanese fox girl, "[color=#BE81F7]So like, shouldn't we give her a plant instead? To give her just enough energy? I don't know, maybe tie her up somewhere first?[/color]"

Danny shook his head, taking the time to calm himself down. It had seemed she had tricked him into talking about what seemed to now be their captive to change the subject. Well that's what he got for not staying cool-headed. Taking a breath Danny returned to his normal volume and with it, the cacophony of destruction around them."We've seen that it hardly contains enough energy, even those bio-luminescent plants aren't that effective. It may delay her dying of starvation but it definitely won't earn anything more than spite. We all know she's a predator, and predator's can't subsist only on plants. As for tying her up? I'd rather not use rope as she could probably burn right through it and unless you know the location of any sort of weird sex dungeon, I'll lift some cuffs they use for patients at the county hospital. Police cuffs are way too easy to slip out of."

"[color=#BE81F7]Fiiine,[/color]" Mary heaved an exasperated sigh into the air of the swaying trees above the group, she hadn't noticed their gentle dance with the escalation of her conversation with Danny, "[color=#BE81F7]But like, I still think we should keep her on some blue lotus, if only to make sure she doesn't murder us all...[/color]" 

Mary placed a hand to her forehead as the reality of what she had just said collided with her diminishing frustration, blue lotus high, hypothermia, and child-like wonder. She felt like orange juice and toothpaste. "[color=#BE81F7]Jesus, I need a smoke,[/color]" she muttered. 

She shook her head, as f the thoughts were the still brisk and icy drops of water clinging to her short, dark hair. 

She really needed to get better at that whole '[i]repression[/i]' thing.

[i]Or maybe just trying to [b]get[/b] what your feelings even are?[/i]

Mary's attention returned to the world, significantly chilled mentally. And shaking physically. "[color=#BE81F7]But yeah. Blue flowers for the fox. Sedate that bitch. And stuff. So, like... I guess... I don't know... I... can handle that...?[/color]" 

Danny shook his head. "No way. According to August too much of that stuff will leave brain damage in the long term and the last thing we need is to deal with a vegetative -no pun intended- person. I still think we should grab some though in case she start's chucking fireballs. Maybe make some for syringes? While you may have no qualms about getting up close and personal with Yui- er the kitsune we'll need something a bit more fast acting. To use for emergencies only."  Picking up his Kuhkri Danny did a small flourish to rid it of the dirt before returning it to his scabbard, and that to his backpack, and while there pulled out a picnic blanket and a towel, tossing the latter to wannabe gangster.

 "I imagine it will be hard gathering plants when you're freezing your ass off. If we're going to do this, we're going to need to move fast." Daniel added, a flame in his eye that had been lacking until now. "The best way to do this if we divided into two teams, one for handling Yui and the other for making sure Ramon gets stabilized. Me, Maxwell and August will head down to the abandoned cannery and get a 'cell' rigged up while Kanoa and the rest take care of Ramon while you head back and gather plants. Try not to touch anything you don't know of until Kanoa can backtrack and help with anything too bad. Jackson could probably aid you in case of security and getting back if his outdoorsmanship is as good as he claims." After a moment of dressing himself in his previous clothing Danny asked the rest of the group, "Anyone have objections?"