So, as per orders, the two Guardians were to proceed to the West, as carefully as they could, as [i]stealthfully[/i] as they could.  Morningstar reached the outside of the castle and hovered fifty feet in the air to have a brief look around.  No Garlock.  He was already on the move.  She wouldn't find him easily until he blew something up, most likely.  She sighed at this.

[color=a36209][i]Never liked that cat, no matter WHAT kind of powers he contained...[/i][/color]

From here, she immediately soared into the sky, gaining more and more altitude.  The higher she went, the harder it was to see her, and soon she was just a tiny dot up there, maybe less so.  Most importantly, she was up here alone.  No dragons or other creatures around.  It was peaceful and pleasant, allowing her to relax a little, and let the tension from before drain away.

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[i][color=a36209]I will find the answer to this, somehow...  But for now, I've a mission to perform.[/color][/i]

Now, she could see ALOT from up here.  From her point of view, not only was a vast distance of the west visible to her, but also the north-west and the south-west.  Star spotted the heavily-decayed area to the north-west, but it was more north than west, to be handled by one of the others, no doubt.  She focused her attention ahead and down, keeping her eyes on the forest and what lay beyond it.  That was when she spotted it.  Even from this height, it was difficult to miss that army.  They were like ants to her from up here, but they were an army.  The hellspawn looked from the army to the area that was more northern for a moment.

[i][color=a36209]Ahhh...  They just came from a battle.  Hmmm.  Now, do I watch and see what they do, for a while?  Find out where they go?  Or...do I crush them in order to keep the Cathedral safe from discovery?[/color][/i]

Quite the conundrum for the great harbinger, but then...she remembered that [i]Garlock[/i] was going to come across these guys.  That being the case, it was probably best to see what HE was going to do with them.  If the explosions started, or if for some reason she thought any of those people could see her from way down there...she would attack.

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Stealth was something that a cat could accomplish, especially when alone.  As soon as Garlock had teleported to the surface - in front of the westward-facing wall - he changed into a small black cat with sleek fur.  There were movements in the woods, some of which might flee from the disturbance, while others would not.  If any presence in the woods were feline by any means, they would not be panicked.  All creatures of this type would feel comfortable around the Bakeneko, and never threaten him or BE threatened.  It would be in their blood and instincts to understand that he was the big cat, the head tom, numero uno gato, and so on.  So, he embarked into the woods and...

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...ummm...   Well, he didn't really sense any observers, so he decided to treat the order of stealth with a bit of 'Meh', and started singing in a deep tenor voice.  Garlock leapt from branch to branch, to forest floor, to zipping around trees, and repeated as needed.  Now, we will agree with you that having him doing this might be something of an attention-grabber, but...as soon as his ears grabbed the distant sound of unnatural movement - armored figures - he [i]stopped[/i] doing this, and was all [color=9e0b0f]"Meow!  Mrow!  Brrreeowr!"[/color] from then on, and observed that there were a number of soldiers on the move.  They didn't seem like anyone that he knew about from the world so-recently gone.  These were new...

From his hidinng place, Garlock grinned...and then vanished.

He teleported to a point in the woods that was ahead of the whole entire army by at least a hundred feet.  From there, he came out into the open...as a cat in play.  He hopped and bounced, chasing at bugs, and then chased his own tail for a moment.  Then, he plopped onto the ground as the army was on the approach, squirming around as cats do.  Basically, he was giving them the cute cat routine.