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Raphael smiled again. [color=#808000]”I appreciate the offer, however as you can see.”[/color] He said motioning to draw the woman's attention the canine bouncing around him excitedly. [color=#808000]”She really wants to play. Maybe later?”[/color] Rafe offered attempting to sound sincere as he turned down the third offer for stress relief he’d received since sending the scouts to find doc.

Guiding Athena on Raphael smiled a farewell and hid his sigh of relief. He finally got accurate directions to Jain’s location from one of the few men in the town; The previous directions he’d received were to to a young woman's residence. Afterwards the scout started teasing Athena with a tennis ball to get her excited; providing the perfect excuse to politely turn down invitations.

Locating the shed that had been repurposed into Jain’s hospital room Rafe finally handed Theena the tennis ball. He rapped the door jam as he opened the door, and froze. Athena chewing happily on her tennis ball also froze at the sight; She recovered faster than her companion. Moving into the room she moved to Jain’s hand; And started pushing her slobber covered tennis ball into the commander's hand.

Raphael shook his head, and decided to pretend not to see anything. [color=#808000]“So I’m guess the bad news reached you before I did.”[/color] He started addressing the room at large so as to point the attention away from Jain’s tears. [color=#808000]”Some potential good news is the Marksmen think they injured the leader of that little group we encountered and are following his trail.”[/color]

[color=#808000]“They plan to bring him back alive.”[/color] Rafe shrugged. [color=#808000]”The other scouts don't know that though. I’m gonna keep them outside the town for the rest of the day. Gonna run an exercise. They’ll be watching for the marksmen to crawl through the field their standing in until I get tired of seeing them look for something that isn't coming.”[/color]

Rafe’s face tightened, [color=#808000]”Maybe they’ll pay more attention in the future. If you got someone in mind to take up mantle of lead scout I’ll send them to discuss the position with you.”[/color] He finished with a faintly hopeful smile.

[@Poi][@RumikoOhara]