She sat smiling up at the sky content to have finally found a peaceful place to rest for the night. She was a bit outside the city limits in an abandoned building that had what she considered to be a pretty good view of the skies and open field. Beside her a small fire was going and the smell of rabbit cooking was making her drool slightly in anticipation of something she hadn't had in about 35 hours, food. 'Night off?' came a voice inside her head. She smiled at the sound of it and while normally the idea of hearing a voice in ones head would have sent one off to the mental hospital in a hurry she was comforted by the return of her friend and looked towards him to see his form emerging from the shadows. She watched with a small smile as an enlongated, slightly curved down tan and brown nose appeared in the light of the fire. The nose was followed by a small brown head with little half circle ears and small black eyes. The creature started to circle around the fire towards the girls resting form and from there she could see the long hair almost touching the ground and the short but stout arms that ended in curled up hands hiding the long claws and the long tail that gently swept the ground as the anteater approached her.

"Hello Antubis" she said with a smile as she reached out her hand and welcomed the beast onto her lap where he gladly laid down and lavished in the affection she gave to her returning companion. "I thought a night off would be good. They're starting to put more and more security around everything and it's getting somewhat difficult to move around without being seen". She heard the beast sigh in her mind 'Told you. I knew they'd start doing that if you moved too fast Kydd. Wait till the heat dies down' the anteater looked up his companion without moving from his comfortable position in her lap and she smiled and looked back toward the evening sky.

"Ive been thinking, maybe it's time to get out of here"

'And go where?' he asked.

"Dunno, but Ive got a feeling that things are going to start to get really crazy around here. I got a weird energy off this guy on the street today. I don't know if that means anything or what the deal is, but either way I think you should hang out in demon world for a bit while I figure all this out."

'You know every time I leave you alone something bad happens' he replied with a slight air of humour recalling his friends past misadventures.

"Yea, but I don't think I'm going to stick around too long. I've been thinking of heading back to Europe, recharging a bit. I've just got one more thing to take care of before I go" she said as she lit up a cigarette.

'I like Europe' was his reply, and with that it all seemed settled.

Morning came all too soon and interrupted the first decent sleep Kydd had had in what felt like ages. She only slept well when Antubis was around and he had chosen to stay well out of her plans to 'turn the damn world on it's head and spank it like a 5 dollar whore' as she had called it one night in a somewhat drunken rampage. She removed herself from the hard ground and dusted the dirt off her baggy jeans and out of her short, white hair. She stopped for a moment to look at her hair, it was getting longer she mused that while for anyone else with the same hair colour this might have meant that it was becoming time to bleach their roots again. This was not the case with her hair however it was simply perfectly white and accompanied by naturally violet eyes due to, what she had discovered what a form of partial albinism. It never bothered her to look the way she did, she still had skin pigmentation though she was admittedly pale not really caring to take the time to tan despite having all the time in the world to do so having no school, family or job (well, almost no job) to take up her time, but she had often in her younger days thought that maybe if she had looked more normal she wouldn't have been left by her mother the way she had. But that was another matter altogether for now she had some work to attend to before she could leave Japan so she dawned her olive green hat and tucked her hair up into it and began heading towards the city. 'Anty left early' she thought only just now noticing her friend was not with her.