"She's late."
"Mreow."
"You realize that she's late."
"Mreow."
"Your concern for your master is overwhelming, Kantama. I mean really. Try to contain yourself, please."
"Mreow."
Nadia rubbed the back of her neck with a grimace, reflecting that maybe coming to see Syri wasn't such a good idea. Especially when the only reason she visited was because of a bad feeling she'd gotten. It wasn't often that Nadia got such feelings, and though they were generally right she still didn't like acting on them.
However, overcoming her usual wariness when it came to trusting her premonitions the woman had braved the wilds and journeyed to her friend's house only to find that said house was completely empty. Oddly crestfallen, Nadia had let herself in and settled herself onto Syri's bed to wait for the blind woman to come home. As the hours passed she became more and more fidgety, first bouncing her foot, then her leg, then tapping out drum beats on the headboard with her fingernails, you get the idea. As you may have guessed, her attempts at conversation with the only other living being in the house didn't go very well, and soon she hit her anxiety threshold.
"Alright, that's it! Kantama, you stay here and guard the house, I'm gonna go see if I can find our addle-brained friend."
Upon receiving a non-committal mreow from the cat, Nadia quickly skedaddled out of the house and onto the broken stone that made up the walkway that led to Syri's house. She swore under her breath and broke into a run at the sound of a scream, dashing down the path with the speed of a champion sprinter.
The scene that greeted her once she cleared the edge of the trees was enough to startle her into momentary paralyzation. Syri, beaten and bloody, was trying her level best to crawl away from where a man with long black hair was slamming someone (was that Carlos?) repeatedly into the ground.
Overcoming her shock-induced stupor, Nadia decided that the best course of action would be to get Syri away from the men and back to her home. With this in mind she skirted the fighters and knelt at Syri's side, reassuring the blind woman that it was only Nadia and that she needed to get home right away. Syri grasped onto her like a drowning man to a lifejacket, nearly cutting off the circulation in her arm.
Nadia helped the blind woman to her feet, trying to keep a good distance from the strange man and the person he was pulverizing.
The blind woman gasped, "Where's Carlos?"
"No time to talk honey, just move."
"Nadia...."
"Just move baby!"
Going as fast as Syri was able, Nadia had almost gotten them to where the trees thickened along the path when she heard the man who'd been beating Carlos call, "Wait!"
"Hurry Syri!" She made a frustrated sound when, instead of listening to Nadia and doing what was best for both of them, the blind woman turned and cried, "Kaze!"
A rustle in the undergrowth beside them had Nadia swinging around to see a grey and white wolf staring at her. She blinked and the wolf turned into the man she'd seen beating Carlos, looking decidedly irritated.
Oh this was getting weird.