Agatha smiled at her boyfriend. Of course, Barrel was fully capable of catching rats on his own, and even if he wasn't, some of the shops in town sold the meat and other parts of rodents cheap enough to make up for it. It was so touching that he'd pretend to need help, just to make Corvin feel welcome and included. If it had been one of his siblings, she would have assumed they were setting Corvin up for something. But Barrel was far too sweet for that.

The witch was about to reply when she noticed some movement out of the corner of her eye -- movement that she was specifically waiting for. She waved to the bat.

Carmilla saw the wave and banked down to land next to her friend. She hovered about chest height for amoment before changing into humanoid form with the usually [i]poof[/i] and smoke. "Hi, Agatha. What's so important you interrupted my vocal routine with a demand to come down here?"

Agatha opened her mouth to answerbluntly, then quickly closed it. She glanced at Barrel. On the one hand, he [i]had[/i] requested her to interferewith Shock's prank. But on the other, flat out [i]admitting[/i] what she had done wouldn't play into his preferred subtleties. She cleared her throat as an excuse for her slow response. 

"Well, I was doing some divinations the other day, and drew up a rather [i]interesting[/i] prediction for... a significant source of amusement, involving someone with a [i]particular color scheme[/i]," she explained. "It couldn't tell me when the event would occur, but it gave me a location, and a particular sign to look out for."

"And I suppose that sign occurred recently." Carmilla raisedan eyebrow. "Is that really all you have? The way you called me, all rushed like that, I would have thought you'd have more details than that."

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Lillith picked Lock up to kiss him, then set him down again and took his arm. "That sounds like a lovely idea." She smiled. "Before that, however, how about we take a stroll in the town square? Stretch our legs and enjoy the evening smog, you know."