If that's what you want to do with those two posts, then yep! I could try to get everything into two posts, if you didn't want to do two yourself, if you'd like, but I have no idea how long that'd get. Seriously, though, whatever you feel like with that.

Brace yourself for the ideas mulling around my head about this beginning portion. This is gonna get long. xD

Well, for them meeting back up, I was thinking either they would accidentally cross paths, or Zane would run into her somewhere not too far from wherever your guy's at, then go fetch Byrce. The dungeon's hidden well enough that it could have been right beneath her kingdom and still not be found, so the where doesn't exactly matter. The only people who know of its location are the two Sages, the guards there, and, to an extent, Thea.

Regarding what happened after their capture... He did a number on the Scientists. The Mage would have deflected his attack. She wouldn't have healing abilities, but she'd have been capable of at least helping the Scientists enough for them to get to safety, since Thea wasn't going anywhere. Since the younger guy wouldn't have been in as bad shape, he'd likely have made sure Byrce wouldn't come to, gotten Bearded-man somewhere safe where he could lick his wounds, then come back for your werewolf.
	As for what they did to him, they're low-grade Scientists, so they'd be a bit more limited. Maybe trying to find another weakness or figure out why/how a werewolf has magic (I believe we discussed that in PM, but memory refreshers are always a good thing), trying out different things on him. However, since he'd be the best one to blame for her disappearance, they wouldn't be capable of keeping him too long before having to release him, I'm thinking with some sort of planted evidence on him that he had attacked Thea in a crazed rage or something. Which making him look that part could always be apart of what they did to him. Maybe sending him into one of the said disorientated rages once he came to? 
	Hmm. You put in his profile that his leg hardly supports his weight. Perhaps because of a method they used to be capable of tracking him down and keeping an occasional eye on him? To see if their experiments had done anything to him over the course of the next year or so. That'd make for some wonderful trouble for Byrce and Thea once they're together.

With the way things would have been outside all that, the Mage would have made sure to clean up any evidence the trio had left, and, with Byrce such a convenient person to take the fall for it, also plant evidence to make a stronger case against him. Zane would have ran back to the castle when he regained consciousness to try alerting them that something was wrong. The king would have been furious and heartbroken, to say the least.
	Since Byrce disappeared and everything would be pointing to him murdering Thea (keep in mind that there's also a spy inside the castle I hinted at, so s/he could help in determining that cause), not just kidnapping, he'd blame the werewolves, and werewolves and Altreiah would likely have been on the brink of war just before Byrce popped back up, providing a solution. As an idea, what if the Altreian king wanted Byrce to be sentenced to death for his crimes, and in exchange he would not declare war on werewolves (for such a crime, the only sentence in that general time period would be death, not banishment), but someone close to him believed his story, and managed to save him? So, not wanting to risk the casualties of war, the werewolves found a substitute that would be enough to convince the king that they had killed Byrce? 

Phew! Hope all that made sense!

Of course, this is all just me thinking not-exactly-out-loud. Please, throw your suggestions, thoughts, and ideas into all that! That's a joy of collaborative brainstorming. You can feed and play off each other's ideas.

... I'm sorry that I've sorta taken things over. *Sigh.* I tend to do that when I get excited about a story. Please, if you feel like I'm being overbearing here or anything, or not giving you the chance to do what [i]you[/i] want with this, say so!

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