[hr][hr][center][h1][color=#DB7093]Cassiopeia Claire Alistair[/color][/h1]
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[b][color=#DB7093]Location:[/color][/b] Mystic Dreams – Chicago, IL 
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I don’t even register that Nic takes my tea cup. I just know it's gone one minute, and then I’m surrounded by him the next. I wrap my arms around him, my hands splaying to hold onto him more. I'll never understand how he makes me feel so small and safe, but I appreciate it now. It reminds me that my worries are just my anxieties.

I nod, my face in his chest, as I selfishly inhale his scent to calm me. I turn my head for a moment to breathe normally and respond. [color=#DB7093]”I know.”[/color] I hold onto him for a bit longer before I wiggle and look up at him. [color=#DB7093]”If you get killed on my watch. I’m going to bring you back and kill you again,”[/color] I partially joke.

[hr][hr][center][h1][color=#006400]Caden[/color][/h1]
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[b][color=#006400]Location:[/color][/b] Osiris Oasis – Chicago, IL
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The woman looks between us, fear plain on their face, but recognition also forms when they see me. “You work with the police. The ones that know about us.”

[color=#006400]”I do. Kimiko, can you go check on Nero? Keep the act up a bit and pretend you want to go home with them,”[/color] I suggest. My eyes never leave the vampire’s eyes. [color=#006400]”My name is Caden, and this is Avery. Can you tell us who or what you think is doing this? You have a pure silver knife. Do you think it’s a shifter or a werewolf?”[/color]

The vampire shakes and lowers the knife. “Mage. And no, not a shifter and not a werewolf. Of course, I can see how everyone thinks it’s a wolf.” She glances at Avery, and he huffs, crossing his arms. “I work in the supernatural district. A new girl moved in and was taking over some of my turf. She was taking some of my more regular clients, and then soon, they stopped coming altogether. I even had a few out-of-towners. Anyway, I didn’t think much of it other than losing business, but the other day, one of them was found dead, and then the others were reported missing. I think it’s her, but I don’t know what she is.” She pulled out her phone and showed me a picture. It’s blurred and not the greatest, but I text it to myself.

[color=#006400]”Did you see anything? Fangs, claws, flashing eyes? Something that would change?”[/color]

“They can shift but not like other shifters. They only have one form, and it’s animalistic. They have claws but nothing that I’ve seen before.”

I open the photo album on my phone and search for the claw picture. [color=#006400]”Did it look like this?”[/color] 

The vamp nods. ”Exactly like that.”

[color=#006400]”Have they been on your street since the news dropped?”[/color]

“No, that’s why I came here. To see if she was lying low. When I smelt your friend, I thought I had her or someone like her.”