[Espy]

((Okies, I'm sure Funk will know what to do, provided that Quintus isn't tooooooo lovestruck XD Yeah, take a hiatus; maybe you're like me and will come back a month later, a year later, two, who knows? Anyways, been nice having you around :) It's okay, no need to worry about it, really <3))

[Funkduder]

Quintus crossed the street entirely before turning back to look at the lonely Ragamuffin. She had sad eyes that were reluctant to leave, but determined to achieve what she had to, before moving in with her newly made friends. She was out of time, and she couldn't let other cats get involved with her own problems.
But Quintus didn't get to see those eyes long enough to know that. The Calico cat sat on the other end of the street when Quintus looked back, and he caught only a glimpse of her before she vanished as a car passed by.
A hint of smoke rose from where she once stood and Quintus rub his fake eye with the back of his palm. "I know she didn't just disappear," Quintus thought.
"She didn't just disappear; did she, Ciaran?" he said.
((There's seems to be some sort of magic at work that magically hides the characters of Trisphites on Hiatus XD))

[Quiet Man Cometh]

(Sure sure, and on that note, DK is going to be away for a while too, so I'll make an absentee section so everyone's cat info will still be here. I know all about that too, Passion. I've taken several breaks from some sites, so no worries. :))

From her perspective looking out the window, Mirri couldn't see precisely what was happening between Quintus and the cat across the street, but it seemed now that the cat had gone on her own way, or was beyond the edges of the window where she could see. *Is he going to go after her?*

[Fey]

Sekhmet stared at the tableau outside and glanced at Mirri, "Quite a ruckus, but at least it appears all the toes and tails are intact." She settled on her toes, her tail flicking back and forth a bit as she watched. "Definitely an event filled evening, should be interesting to see what else might transpire."

[Quiet Man Cometh]

"mmm." Mirri made a non-commital sound and nodded her head but still looked out the window, wondering where the other cat might have gone if she didn't come with Quitus. She wrinkled her nose when Ciaran came back to the shop but otherwise didn't pay too much attention to him. If he was walking about on his own accord then he was likely to be okay. It's not likely she'd get a good look at him anyway unless Quintus were to knock him out again.

She continued to look out the window but wasn't really looking for the calico cat anymore, or any cat. She was thinking about breakfast. Notably, tomorrow's breakfast and where they were to get any with the meagre pickings. She could fend for herself, but it was a fair trek to the river and woods and returning home with anything edible was asking for alley cat trouble, and there were a few around she's rather avoid.

[Funkduder]

Quintus looked back at the garbage can, but Ciaran was no longer there. "He must have gone into the shop then," he thought, dismissing him from his mind. Quintus then approached Mirri, who was near the open window inside. "It seems that we're going to have to deal with alley cats until we can get the window closed again," he said to her.
When Quintus opened the window to try to save the Calico cat, the bar that was jammed in the gap of the slightly open window disappeared, and even if it were to be recovered again, the window wouldn't close the same way it was opened unless they could reach the very top of the window, which they could not.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Mirri drew her gaze away from the window, twisting around to look at Quintus, a bit of dropping sunlight reflecting off of the line of beads along her ears. She looks slightly downward, obviously in thought for a moment.

"Perhaps a bell? Like the one on Eccentric's door?"

Rin has been chasing around precisely one such item, though it's likely Sekhmet has taken action to secure her peacefull reading time.

"There might be some in the human toys left around the store." Mirri refers to the mound of knick-knacks and oddities that plug most of the shop, leaving few paths that anyone but cats can navigate.

[Fey]

Indeed, Sekhmet had wandered back to her book, her ears flickering back and forth as she waded through the text. She's slipped off her fur piece and was laying on her, the tip of her tail swaying back and forth in counter-rhythm to her head as she followed the words on the page.

[Funkduder]

Quintus explored the alley way, searching for anything that could close the window and open it in a way that wouldn't require too much effort. A string, a fish skeleton, and a glass marble. Although all of them looked interesting, none of them would help him with what he wanted to do. The time ticked slowly as he searched, while the other cats worked on their own business, but he couldn't keep his mind off of the cat. Cats don't disappear like the Calico did. It wasn't frightening, but created unease nonetheless.
"I need to talk to Ciaran. He wold be the only one who would know how to explain this."
Quintus then rushed off to find him, wherever he may have been. Quintus kept his eyes wide, not wanting anymore cats to disappear.

[Espy]

((Ok, ok, I get the point, you guys need me x____X But I don't have too many ideas.))

Ciaran peered down at Quintus. ...If he's not careful, he'll get himself into a fight here... he mused, not too sure whether the Blue could stand up to the Hunters lurking in the alley. He chuckled, remembering the time when he himself had been a Hunter, and the times before that.

Shaking himself out of nostalgia, he crept along a lengthy windowsill above Quintus, "just keeping an eye out", but actually worrying quite a bit, for the Blue.

((Note: Ciaran just had lunch. And lunch was a mouse. Infer what you want. Also, Quintus is going to get quite a few surprises if he thinks cats can't disappear. Ciaran can play a mean game of hide and seek.))

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Inside the shop, Mirri had turned back to the window, but her mind was now on what would be next for the shop cats now that it had been a day with no sign of Eccentic and the mention of alley cats. There wasn't much food in the ice box, and food around the outside, while not uncommon, was harder to get, especially if one had to fight for it. Mirri knew what she would do. She would take the most obvious option a mother cat had: move the den to safer ground. Was that what the others wanted though? She knew what was beyond the human city, but not what was beyond that.

Her ears flattened and she frowned, as much as a cat could frown.

Not committing to anything yet. Anyone have thoughts on what to do next?

[Funkduder]

Quintus looked up once inside the alley again to find Ciaran on the fire escape. The wet bones in front of him suggested to Quintus something that was extremely horrifying, in his opinion.
"I'm not going to even ask about that," Quintus called to Ciaran, walking away. However, he rushed back a few seconds later, remembering what he had nearly forgotten.
"Ciaran, you saw the calico disappear, right? What is happening?"

[Poggio]

The young ocelot was not sure what was going on. The commotion outside the only home that Jinx knew caused him to hide among his miscellaneous passions under the table. He listened at the sounds of the others returning from their excursion outside. His ears twitched as he crept to the room with the open window catching vague bits of conversation from outside. Jinx managed to hear what the others were saying. Someone went missing. Quickly rushed into the window with a worried look on his face for an instant Jinx assumed the metal monster had indeed murdered, but he saw every one safe. Curiously he asked inching towards edge of the window looking out into the alley “Who is missing?”

[Mirror Gardens]

Zmey was rather lost. Well not lost, she knew where she was. She was in a back alley that connected to other various alleys and streets in a rather small city, well by her standards at least. The only problem was that she was uncertain as to which city she had managed to wander into this time. As she wandered she kept to the shadows, just in case any unfriendly faces decided to make an appearance. As she turned into another alley she heard voices. Drawn by her need to satisfy her curiosity, she snuck quietly into the alley and eavesdropped on the conversations being held between cats in the alley and some up on a window ledge she presumed considering from her position she could not exactly see them. She hunkered down and listened as they discussed a window and what sounded like a missing calico case. Eventually her curiosity got the better of her and she wanted to know more. Cautiously she stepped out of her hiding place, whilst keeping a distance from the stranger felines, and sat in the open. “Yes…who is missing?”

[Poggio]

Jinx jumped at the sudden intrusion of the new voice. He bounced backwards off the ledge at the voice. It was a ghost, his tiny mind guessed. the missing had returned and was haunting them. As Jinx bounced back to his hiding spot spooked by the noise he realized the metal monster must have eaten another cat. Hiding in the shadows Jinx pawed at a ball while he debated if it was safe to come out.

[Espy]

Ciaran mused, "You won't ask, you say...you will when you're hungry."

Suddenly a clear voice rang out. The Abyssinian whipped around, pupils contracting to slits while he glared at yet another newcomer.

"It's none of your...." He trailed off. Well, maybe it was her business. Maybe this cat could help them out. Ciaran glanced at Quintus. He was the one more curious about it, anyways.