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She knew Kaleb probably didn’t like her being out in the preserve on her own, not after last time, but she needed to get some air, and go and curl up in her cave for a little while. She’d left him a drawing of a stick figure standing in a cave so he knew where to look for her. On her way though she caught the scent of another werewolf, and she stalked over, growling a little. She flashed her blue eyes at him, out of habit. “Don’t know. Humans, probably. It usually is.” She kicked a little at the scorched earth, frowning. It was going to be harder to hunt for animals out here now for sure.

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“Yeah, that’s fine. Email it it to the usual one and i’ll check it out tonight. Thanks Mitch.” A beep, the line disconnecting before the hunter slid the phone back into his pocket. A newly acquired phone thanks to a trip to the local shopping center. But a guy jogged into sight, his voice carrying across the deadened grass. “Oh, man. You totally missed it. These area 51 dudes busted in outta nowhere and told all of us to look away and some had these little black sticks with this big flash and—  I honestly don’t remember the rest. Kinda crazy, right?” A pause. “You lost, kid?”

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She’d been on a run, trying to mark out the best path that wasn’t constant uphill. Kelsey may have enjoyed the exercise and way to clear her mind but the girl wasn’t a masochist. Her nosiness won out her original path though as she diverted, heading towards the clearing now charred and blackened and reeking of something old, evil. It made her nose itch, and she was lost in looking at what was either dry blood or wet ash when a voice startled her with his woah. “Holy crap when did you even get here?” Granted coldplay was currently blasting out of the one headphone dangling from her ear but still, how had she missed a whole ass person? “Uhm —” what was the appropriate cover for sacrifice? “A…thing, landed. Crash landed. Super wild.” Kelsey gave him her full attention, now a little confused. “Wait…have we ..  met?”

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