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OOM: A complicated start.

Quentin's trying not to worry too much about what happened to Raj, he can't do anything more. Still when Milliways appears instead of Walther's building, he's glad for the rest. He can get something to eat and try and figure out what the Luidaeg and Tybalt weren't telling him.

As soon as he walks in the door, he drops the illusion that was softening the blue of his eyes, hiding bronze hair and pointed ears before going straight to the counter. Once he has a huge stack of pancakes does he start going over all that the Luidaeg said and didn't say and Bridget's anger.

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Yamato's midway through making preparations (which in this case means going through a laundry list of medical and pharmaceutical supplies that Jyou needs but can't steal because he's Jyou) for the Chosen's trip when he sees Quentin and his pancakes and wanders over.

Quentin gets greeted mostly by a silent hand in his hair, and a peck on the forehead, before Yamato settles down next to him.

At the hand in his hair, Quentin jumps until he sees Yamato, "Hey, what's the list for?"

"Sorry," Yamato says quickly. He glances at the list, then stuffs it in his pocket. "Medical supplies. Jyou wants them, doesn't want to steal them. What's up with you?"

"Supplies for what? A new case, I'm just a little jumpy. There was an afanc, a kind of monster on Toby's car."

"We, er, we decided to go back to the Digital World. And find our partners," Yamato says, rubbing the back of his neck. "So, Jyou wants surgical antiseptic, antibiotics, drugs that can be used to sedate someone if necessary, disinfectant, painkillers, burn creams, Hikari's old medication even though she almost never needs it these days, stuff like that."

He tilts his head.

"What's the case about?"

"Oh, wow," That's big and he leans on Yamato, rubbing his back, "A missing changeling who can teleport."

Yamato leans against Quentin in turn, dropping a quick kiss onto the side of his head.

"They can teleport? Is that -- normal, or ... ?"

"For Tuatha de Dannan, it is and she seems like a powerful one,"

What she can do has the Luidaeg worried which is never good.

"Do you know why she went missing yet?"

"No, her mother thought we'd taken her,"

That was an awful meeting, but Bridget's anger made sense. Maybe that was the worst part, it confirmed how bad things get when Fae and humans get too entangled.

"That you'd taken her? Why would she think that?"

"Because she knows the stories and she never told the girl's father she existed. She threatened us with iron,"

All her thoughts made sense, they hadn't done it but its possible other Fae might have.

"Are you okay? She didn't hurt you or anything?" Yamato asks, frowning. "And is it possible that nobody took her? I mean, she can teleport, that seems like a surefire way to accidentally -- or intentionally -- disappear. And a pretty good way of escaping from anyone who tries to catch her."

"No, she didn't. No, she was testing her range but she disappeared on her way home from school."

"That means she could have vanished from anywhere within a certain radius," Yamato says. "She could have been taken from her route, or if she decided to try and test out her range on the spot, anywhere in range of her route. Do you know the location she was taken from?"

"Not yet, no, but we do have a way to track her."

"How? Some kind of blood magic?"

"Blood is part of it, yes. I don't know yet. I haven't had a chance to try it yet."

"What does it involve? In theory, I mean."

"A little ball that traces her."

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"That -- doesn't sound so bad."

"Toby had to bleed to make it, she usually does for these spells."

"Is she alright? I mean, I guess this is usual for her, but did she lose a lot of blood?"

"No, she grumbled about it but was fine."

"That's a relief, at least."

Beat.

"Sorry, I should probably be distracting you, not making you talk about work."