The Streets of Umbridge Island, Monday Night

[truekindofsith]

The weirdness with today's radio notes had left Cara twitchier than usual. Doubly so given the squirrels had denied responsibility even with the offered bribes of rum. Which left some idiot newbie trying to pull a something as the most likely culprit

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[hunting_harpy]

Of course Surreal was the type to be out after curfew to prove a point.

...that point usually being her knife in Cara's back, but she also wanted to see how Umbrige's muscle was doing after today's nonsensical radio.

In the best possible way, of course. By dropping out of a tree on her.

[truekindofsith]

Cara, don't look so pleased at someone trying to stab you. You'll scare the children.

Slamming her elbow back towards Surreal, she grinned as she turned and drew an agiel. "Just, who I was hoping to see."

[hunting_harpy]

"Really? I'm not sure if I should feel flattered or not," Surreal quipped, knives already in both her hands. "Aren't you out past your bedtime, little loyalist?"

[truekindofsith]

"I'm sure we'd both rather be in bed right now." Normally, Cara preferred to just hit first and ask questions later instead of witty wordplay, but, well, Surreal was just special like that. "But someone has to make sure disobedient children aren't where they shouldn't be."

She circled her lazily, the other agiel drawn now as well. "And you should be very flattered to receive my personal attention. Few do."

[thismeanswarner]

Yakko was coming the other way up the street, whistling completely innocently while wearing a miner's helmet and not really concealing a very large fish behind his back.

He stopped whistling for a second and suggested, "You didn't see anything, okay?" And then started whistling again.

[truekindofsith]

"If only that were true." Cara's life would be so much easier. "I think I got your radio notes today."

It had made as much sense as anything else out of his mouth.

[thismeanswarner]

"If you promise not to tell anyone, you can have half the fish," Yakko said.

Not that he'd given her the notes. But what was he going to do with a whole huge fish? He might as well use it as a crazy bribe.

[truekindofsith]

"You can keep it." Where had Cara's life gone wrong that she was being bribed with fish?