Mae stood alone in the apartment's lobby, she'd finished breakfast before everyone else and while everyone else finished their breakfast, and after she'd gotten dressed in the same clothes she's worn almost all her life, Mae kept on trying to speed the others up so they could start looking for Gregg. Eventually Bea became annoyed with Mae and told her "If you really want to get like an early start on the search, you can go wait in the lobby for us." Mae, at first, thought that Bea's words were completely genuine but now that she was alone in the lobby sitting on a stupid leather couch she realized that Bea was just pissed at Mae and wanted some peace and quite, and Mae was starting to get pissed off because she's been waiting almost twenty minutes. While Mae waited out in the lobby the officer from both last night and breakfast came down and walked out the building, he gave Mae an almost rehearsed looking wave before he left the building and leaving Mae all alone again, that seemed like something that happens to her a lot, at some point in her life she'd just be left alone... forgotten, by the world and everyone/everything on it. The amount of time she'd be forgotten by everything would vary depending on why she was forgotten, when she was younger all of Possum Springs forgot her that was until she attacked that poor kid, Andy Cullen, at a softball game because her stupid head broke, because it made her crazy, because she saw those stupid, fucking, shapes.

As Mae sat there feeling bad for herself, thinking about the Incident, she remembered that weird dream she had in Bea's car. Where someone who claimed to be the creature in the hole tried to get Mae to work for him, but that was the only time she dreamed something like that, usually if some other worldly entity tried to contact her in her dreams she'd have multiple very similar or borderline the same kind of dreams over and over again but that hadn't happened. The guy who claimed to be the Black Goat hasn't shown up in her dreams, hell she almost forgot about that one dream until she started to think about the Incident, Mae slumped backwards on the couch out of boredom she was staring at the elevator doors just waiting for her friends to step out of them so they could go find Gregg. She could also see the same teenager from last night still standing behind the counter, and he was staring at Mae, she'd occasionally and very quickly shift her eyes so she could get a glance of him, she was half tempted to yell at him "Stop staring at me" simply because she was bored, and kinda creeped out by him luckily the sound of the elevator's doors sliding open saved the teen from Mae's shouts, Mae quickly sat up straight as the doors slid open and her friends all stepped out of it.

Almost everyone seemed to have gotten changed, Bea was still in the same clothes as before, Angus now wore a dark green sweater over a white dress shirt as well as a pair of navy colored pants and some black shoes, and of course he had his thick blacked rimmed glasses as well as his black fedora. Lori had her black hooded jacket tired around her waist by it's sleeves but for the most part she wore exactly the same things as before, and Selmers looked like she hadn't changed at all, Mae hopped off of the couch and ran over to her friends "We ready to go?"

Bea nodded "Yeah we're ready."

Mae then grew a massive smile as everyone walked out of the lobby. The sky was a bright blue color and peppered with large white fluffy clouds, various cars passed by the apartment at varying speeds, Mae could see the gigantic lake that sat several miles away from where she currently stood, the lake was just as blue as the sky and Mae could've sworn that she could see boats sailing across the lake, turned around and looked at her friends "So, where to first?"

Bea shrugged and Angus answered "Well... We should check around the areas Gregg visits frequently, that should give us a good place to start."

Mae stood there for a moment thinking of where to head first "...Gregg's work."

Selmers raised an eyebrow "What?"

Mae shrugged "Gregg's work, that's a good place to start."

Angus furrowed his own brow "But, the police have already checked that place out."

Mae grew a sly smile giving of a very concerning aura "Well... They searched the work place within the boundaries of the law... But I don't operate within the boundaries of the law."

Bea stepped forwards getting closer to Mae "Let's not break the law."

Mae blankly stared at Bea before she bolted away from them heading down the sidewalk, as she ran away Mae yelled back to her friends "Where's Gregg's work!?"

As she yelled back to her friends, they all ran after her and Angus answered with his own yell "H- He works at Survival Depot!"

Lori looked over to Angus as they ran "That's a stupid name for a store!"

Angus nodded "Y- Yeah, but it's l- local."

Selmers shook her head "Doesn't change the fact it's a stupid name."

Angus nodded as everyone continued to chase after Mae. Mae stopped in front of a crosswalk allowing everyone to catch up to her, once they did Angus doubled over placing his hands on top of his knees and started to wheeze, Angus then reached into his pant pocket, he then pulled out an inhaler and he placed the medical device's mouthpiece in his own mouth before pressing down on the top of the device and spraying it's medicine into the back of his throat. Bea rubbed Angus's back "You gonna be okay?"

Once Angus finished medicating himself he nodded, Selmers walked past both Angus and Bea and headed over to Mae "Do you even know where you're going?"

Mae shook her head "Nah."

Angus then stood straight up taking a deep breath in through his noose, Lori looked over to Angus "You good?"

Angus nodded exhaling his breath out of his mouth "Yeah, I'm good.. Just, let's not run again anytime soon."

Bea nodded "You got it.. Right?"

She glared at Mae questioning her "Yes BeaBea I promise to not just randomly run off.. Without giving you guys heads up first, anyways how do we get to Survival Depot?"

Angus took of his hat and rubbed the top of his head before answering "We're gonna cross the road right here, then take a right, we'll keep walking for a mile or so before crossing another street and taking a left. Then it'll be right there."

Mae nodded a smile growing on her face "Got it."

She then spun around and started to cross the street, as she did a car whizzed by in front of her face and Bea grabbed the back of Mae's shirt. As Bea saved Mae from getting hit by a car the cat yelled out "HOLY SHIT!"

Bea pulled Mae back onto the sidewalk "Jesus Christ Mae! What?! Where you never taught proper road safety?!"

Mae turned around and faced Bea "It was safe to cross a moment ago! How was I supposed to know?!"

Bea sighed "Mae... Just... Goddammit be safe."

She then shoved her hand into her pant pocket and pulled out her pack of cigarettes. While everyone waited for the cars to stop driving by so they could cross the road Bea pulled a cigarette out the pack and quickly lit it, just as Bea placed it in her mouth a little crosswalk traffic light thing changed from a red hand that commanded them to not cross, to a green figure of a unisex unispecies person walking which told them it was safe to cross. The walk to Survival Depot was uneventful and boring, about the most excitement that came out of the walk was from Bea occasionally tapping the top of her cigarette so some of the excess ash could fall off of it, but once they arrived Mae was filled with a sense of hope and excitement, the building it's self looked like a giant log cabin that was three stories high, in the middle of the building's front door was a giant sign that read "Survival Depot for all your outdoor needs." and the words on the sign rested on top of a giant red and white target. Mae looked over to Angus "This is what a local store looks like in Bright Harbor?"

Angus didn't look away from the building when he answered but he did shrug "It's a really successful local business."

Bea blew a puff of smoke out of her mouth before saying "Well, successful or not Gregg works here. And we came here to help find him, so we should head inside and start doing that."

Mae and Angus nodded although Mae's nod was much more energetic and proud while Angus's seemed rather nervous and hesitant, once they all walked inside the store Mae, Bea, Lori, and Selmers's jaws practically dropped at the utter size of the store's interior, the inside was as large as Fort Lucenne Mall and all of the space was used to it's full capacity, the first floor was filled with camping gear and fishing supplies, the second floor was filled with guns, knives, and all sorts of legal weaponry, then the third floor was both a shooting range and a massive library area filled with books on survival and camping, all the while the three floors were connected by a set of escalators and elevators. Lori started to breath heavily "Holy shit... It's gonna take forever to search this place... I don't think we can-"

Mae then ran over to Lori and grabbed her shoulders, and she stared into Lori's eyes "NO! We CAN search this place, we WILL search this place even if it takes us all day, why?"

"Wh- Why?"

"Because we all love and care for Gregg! We're doing this for him! We got this! Am I right?!"

As Mae finished she let go of Lori and stepped away from her so she could face the entire group, everyone gave half hearted nods and "Yeahs"

Which caused Mae to frown "I still suck at pep-talks."

Bea grinned slightly at Mae's disappointment "No, it's just that.. It's was kinda sudden and surprising."

Mae shrugged "Eh, any kind of reaction other than a punch to the face is fine by me."

She then spun back around and took a proud stance, she extended her right arm and pointed in front of herself "Are we ready?"

Bea shrugged "Guess so."

Mae then squinted her eyes like an action hero "Then let's do this.. Let's interrogate some unsuspecting employees."

She then ran off leaving everyone confused, Bea looked over to Angus "Should we split up?"

Angus slowly nodded "Yeah... Uh, Bea you find Mae.. Lori, Selmers you?"

Lori looked over to Angus "I'll go with Selmers."

Angus then nodded again "Alright. I guess I'll go alone, which is probably best. I can get into employee only areas, even though I'm not supposed to the staff gives me a pass."

Bea then clapped her hands together "Alright sounds like a plan.. Oh and before we split up, do they allow cigarettes in here or not?"

Angus shook his head "No, you can't smoke in here."

Bea then took her cigarette out of her mouth and pushed the door behind her open, she then tossed the cigarette out of the building and let the door close shut again, the rest of the group then split up heading off in different directions, Angus headed for the third floor, Lori and Selmers went for the second, and Bea chased after Mae who was all the way in the back of the first floor. Bea scoured through an aisle of fishing polls searching for Mae, when at the final corner aisle at the very back of the store Bea found Mae crouched down in the corner staring at something "Mae, I thought you said you wouldn't just run off without a heads up.. What are you looking at?"

Mae at first didn't notice Bea so the crocodile threw her lighter at Mae "Hey, are you paying attention? And I hope you're holding on to that, I can't get another anytime soon."

Mae raised her right arm up showing that she had picked up Bea's lighter and was holding it in her right arm "I got it.. No I wasn't paying attention."

Bea walked over to Mae "Why's that?"

Mae then pointed at something in the corner "Check this out."

Bea peered over Mae's head and saw a little hole in the wall "It's a mouse hole."

Mae nodded "Yeah."

Bea rubbed her forehead out of frustration "What's so important about the hole that you're crouched over here just staring at it?"

Mae shrugged "I just wanted to see if who ever lives in there wants something to eat."

Bea raised an eyebrow in confusion as she squatted down next to Mae "What do you mean by who ever lives in there?"

Mae looked over to Bea "Well it's a mouse hole, and I heard some squeaking coming from it a little bit ago."

Bea inspected the hole but she couldn't see anything in it "Why do you want to feed the rodent that lives in there?"

Mae grinned slightly "Well... Back in Possum Springs I kinda, accidentally, became the mother of a nest of rats."

Bea stared at Mae in complete confusion "How do you accidentally become the mother of a rat nest?"

Mae shrugged a nervous grin on her face "By deciding to feed the rat nest and just keep on doing that everyday."

Bea continued to blankly stare at Mae mouth slightly agape in confusion "Okay, wait.. So first, where do your pet rats live? Second, how the fuck did you find them? And third, how do you plan on feeding THIS rat and or mouse?"

Mae dug her hand into her pant pocket as she answered "They aren't my pets, they're my rat-children and they live in the Telezoft building, in a storage room... Specifically they live inside of a hole in Mallard P. Bloomingro, and I found them when I snuck into the building and took a peek inside of the hole in Mallard, and I plan on feeding this rat/mouse this."

She then pulled out a large crumb of bread and showed it to Bea. She inspected the large crumb Mae had pulled out of her pocket "Ignoring the fact you image those rats as your children, when and where did you get that?"

Mae placed the crumb in front of the hole and looked back over to Bea "I found it in the guest bedroom while I changed."

Bea grinned slightly "So what. You found a crumb on the ground and thought that you should pocket it encase you ever found a hungry Vermin animal?"

Mae shrugged "Kinda, I also pocketed it encase someone tried to jump us, and if someone did I'd chunk the chunk at them hoping to hit em' in the eye."

Bea nodded "Huh."

Just then a little grey rat came out of the hole and started to eat the large crumb of bread. After the rat finished the crumb it scurried back into it's hole disappearing, Mae and Bea both stood up and the cat looked over to her friend "Alright now that I've cured my home sickness for awhile let's get down to some interrogation."

Bea stuck her hands into her pockets "Alright, there's a counter nearby.. Follow me."

Bea then led Mae to a counter which was set up so it could checkout anyone that made their way to the back of the store. Standing behind the checkout counter was a blue feathered bird who looked to be around fifteen or nineteen, the teen wore a beige colored cargo shirt and a pair of blue jeans as well as a pair of brown work boots, clipped to his left chest pocket was a ID card that read "Eric Devault" the teen saw Bea and Mae approaching and seemed to perk up, which was probably because nobody ever came to the very back of the store. The teen grew a big smile once they reached the counter "Hi! Uh, welcome to Survival Depot, how can I help you?"

Mae slammed her hands onto the counter and used the to push herself up making her level with the teen's head "Where's Gregg?! What did you do to him?!"

Bea then wrapped her arms around Mae's waist and took her off of the counter "I'm sorry about my friend, she's kinda... Emotional and over-reactive."

The teen stared at Mae slightly confused "Uh... It's uh, fine I guess. But what was that about Gregg?"

Mae squirmed around in Bea's arms and attempted to say something but Bea covered the cat's mouth with her hand "A person named Greggory Harper Lee recently went missing and he works here. So me and my friends are hoping to find somebody that might know Gregg and know where he is."

The teen nodded silently going "Oh."

Before he spoke up fully "Well.. I know WHO Greggory is but I haven't really met him in person."

Mae almost kicked Bea in her leg while she squirmed. Bea let go of Mae letting her drop to the ground, Mae then looked over to the teen "Alright, you know who Gregg is, but you haven't met him. But do you know where he is?"

The teen shook his head "I'm sorry I don't know where he is... But I do know someone who might know where he is... Her name is Amanda Michelle, and she's the store's current manager, usually at the time of day she's up on the third floor doing... What ever it is she does, I barely know what Ian over there does most of the day because I'm stuck here at the back of the store."

As he said a fellow employee's name he waved he motioned over to his left pointing over to a counter at the front of the store. Bea smiled "Thanks for the help, also what does Amanda look like?"

The employee grinned slightly and blushed to himself "Uh.. She's uh, she's a brown furred canine.. Oh and she's got bright blue eyes, like they practically glow."

Mae smiled "Awesome thanks!"

She then grabbed Bea's arm and led her away from the counter towards a set of escalators that'd take them up to the third floor. As they rode the first set of escalators up to the second floor Mae looked over to Bea "You notice how he reacted to your smile?"

Bea was blankly staring forwards and she continued to do as such even as she answered "Yeah I saw, but I was just trying to be nice. I mean the poor guy's stuck in the back of the store all alone for hours on end."

Mae looked over to her right and caught a quick glance of Eric Devault "It must suck to be stuck back there for a long time."

Mae's words sounded slightly bitter and maybe even sarcastic which caught Bea's attention, she looked over to Mae "What's up with you?"

Just as Bea asked Mae her question the two of them reached the second floor and stepped off of the escalator, as they walked over to the final escalator that'd take them up to the third floor Mae answered Bea's question with her own question "What do you mean?"

And as they stepped onto the first moving step Bea answered Mae's question/answer "I dunno you just seemed kinda bitter.. Like that kid's reaction to my dumb ass smile made you... Jealous."

Mae quickly shook her head "NO! I'm not jealous... Just kinda mad he wasn't all that much help."

Bea rolled her eyes "But he did help us.. He told us where to find Amanda and what she looks like."

Mae shrugged "I guess you're right.. I was just hoping for something more immediate."

Bea placed her hand on Mae's head and started to rub it comforting the cat slightly "I know you want to help your friends but you gotta have some patience, it's not like those TV shows where the detectives find a clue or two before the criminal does something stupid and gives himself away."

Mae frowned "I guess you're right."

Bea took her hand off of Mae's head and grinned slightly "I'm always right."

Mae rolled her eyes scoffing at that.