It was late perhaps around midnight, but Toboe couldn't sleep. He tossed and turned but now sleep would come to the weary young wolf. Finally he got sick of it and stood up in the dim moonlight. He walked over to Kiba and prodded him a bit with his paw. "Hey Kiba, wake up... I need to talk to you..." the pup shook the pack leader violently until he stirred. "Do you have any idea what time it is, pup?" Kiba asked yawning. "No, but I can't sleep..." he started. "So that means that no one else can?" Kiba interrupted. "That's not it!" Toboe defended, "It's just I thought you would know something about what I'm going through... I keep hearing this high-pitch noise and there's this light on the horizon... Something is telling me to go to that light. I know it sounds wierd, but..." After listening to the youngest member of his pack for a few moments Kiba began to seriously think about what he was going through. "You're having a premonition..." Kiba explained, "It's not a normal thing, most wolves can't get premonitions... You and I are a rare case, tomorrow we'll follow your premonitionand and see where it leads, ok? For now, try to get some sleep..." "Ok, thanks Kiba..." Toboe said curling up and drifting off into an uneasy sleep.

Morning came just as it was expected to. "Time is meaningless here..." Kiba thought, "Time is infinite here..." That day Toboe let his instinct carry him, his head was clear of all thoughtsa but one. "I must find whatever it is that calls to me..." Everyone else pondered on what Kiba was thinking letting the youngest of them lead. Everyone except the old man who was being carried by Hubb, because he was only two days into a week-long drunken sleep. Hubb mumbled under his breath about carrying the loudly snoring drunk old man. Instead of finding a city though at the end of Toboe's search they found a rather large house. As they approached it, they met with a sign that read, "Paradise Hotel" Kiba decided they would check into this large hotel and stay the night. The inn had been transformed from an old mansion, shivers ran up and down Toboe's spine. The old corridor though nicely decorated and in good condition was creepy. The walls were decorated with things you would expect to find in a creepy old mansion; paintings that seemed to follow you, knight statues that looked as if they would come at you. Toboe surpressed a shiver, doubtless Hige would never let him live it down if he found out the younger wolf was scared. Toboe stopped in front of another guest's room, he knew someone was in there, he could hear voices. One voice was distantly familiar but he could trace it. The door glowed and the same shrill noise he had heard the night before resonated loudly from behind it.

Hige approached him saying something he couldn't make out. He reached for the doorknob before he knew what he was doing. "Hey Pup, whaddya' think your doin'?" Hige asked laying a hand on Toboe's shoulder. Toboe returned to his 'normal' self, he shook his head and put a hand on it. He looked at the door, it still glowed dimly but there was no sound. As it turned out the pack was staying in the room next door. Toboe saw that the rest of them had resumed beast form and were watching a movie on TV. He didn't say anything and curled up on the floor to go to sleep once back in his own beast form. "Hey, aren't ya' gonna' watch the movie with us, Pup?" Hige asked. "No thanks, I think I'll just go strait to sleep..." Toboe replied. He slept fitfully and could quite make out the nightmare he was having. He was running away from something, and it chased him ferverously. When he turned his head to look he couldn't anything but a dark shadow coming at him. The shadow caught hold of him, but he didn't feel the pain of terror, whatever it was didn't try to hurt him it was caressing his fur softly.

When he awoke the dream had faded from his memories. The light of a bright and sunny day blasted in from a window, he looked around the room. Everyone else had gone off without him. There was a note on one of the beds. "Toboe, we haven't left without you. We're wondering about the hotel, we'll all come back to the room and check out tomorrow. See ya' soon, Kiba..." the note read. He picked up an extra key to the room that had been left by the TV for him and left the room. His premonition chose that moment to flare up again, he quickly locked the door and chase after it as fast as he could with no idea what he was looking for. The hotel was huge with thousands of rooms, he checked all of the public access rooms; the library, the dining hall, the lobby, game room. He found only his own companions; Hubb and Cher were in the library, Hige and Blue were in the dining hall, Tsume Kiba and Miyu were in the game room. He had heard there was a bar, but since he was a minor he couldn't go in, he figured he'd only find Queant anyway.

He had finally gone out the back door into the courtyard and sat down on the steps leading up to the huge building panting. He was just about to give up when he heard some voices. "Leara, don't forget we're in court three!" someone shouted. "Ok..." a familiar voice called back as it approached him. He looked up not believing what he had just heard. There she stood, just as she had before. She had also caught sight of him and recognized him as well. "Toboe!" she shouted. "Leara!" he cried. After a little while they had toold her friends they were going for a walk and began to trot around the courtyard. "I guess I'm the one that mixed up now, huh?" she asked. "If that's true, the the whole world's mixed up..." he responded. They stopped and turned to look at each other. "Toboe..." she started as she changed her form to that of a young white and cream colored wolf, "...I've become this..." "It's not a bad thing in this world, Leara... Everyone is either a canine or a feline in disguise here..." he tried to comfort her. "I know, my friends I've only had since I came to this world. It's a self-help group, we're just a bunch of puppies and kittens so we travel together and help each other, until we're old enough to take care of each other or we find another group to take us in..." she explained. "Well, you don't have to be in that group anymore! You can come with us!" he barked excitedly. She considered it for a few moments before finally agreeing to at least meet the other members of the pack Toboe belonged to.

The two spent the whole day together, not really talking or doing much of anything just being around one another. By eavning they were back at the pack's room. "That's really wierd, my group's rom is right next door..." she stated. He turned and looked at her quizzically. She merely smiled at him meekly and walked in after he had opened the door. "Hey Pup, didja' pick yourself up a girlfriend?" Hige asked teasingly. "Hige..." Toboe growled warningly. Hige laughed and only continued to tease Toboe until Blue popped him upside his head and told him to be nice. Tsume recognized her immediately. "Kiba, you can't let her join..." he whispered. "If she's with Toboe, she can come with us... That's all I'm going to say about it..." Kiba retorted with a slight smile. Kiba opened the door to the balcony and left the room saying, "I need to be alone with my thoughts for a while..." Myu simply mewed in confusion about Leara, but decided that if she could get along with Blue and Cher she'd have no problems with Leara. Hige regarged the matter seriously for a second, shrugged, then resumed his jovial ways. Queant was snoring drunkly after spending too much time in the aforementioned bar. Hubb was asleep as well with no fault from alcohol of any kind. Cher was nowhere to be seen but the sound of a shower being heard through a wall came to everyone's ears. Blue was watching Hige like a hawk, something he seemed to be very nervous about. Tsume decided to go for a walk and walked out of the hotel room. Toboe and Leara passed out quickly as soon as they had laid down. That's when Myu took the time to sniff over Leara carefully. "She's a child..." Myu thought before looking at Toboe, "They both are, I guess it's a good thing that Toboe has someone his own age to be around..." The small lynx smiled before moving steathily back to her own spot on one of the beds. Toboe had another restless night, though, the shadow that had appeared in his dreams appeared to him again. This time he was back in the old lady's house, sitting beside a rocking chair in front of a fire. Instead of the old lady though the black shadow sat rubbing his head gently. As the pack slept a black shadow had really wondered into the room and was watching Toboe sleep. In a raspy voice it called to him, "Toboe... Toboe... Toboe..." By morning Toboe was sure whatever this shadow was it had been in the room the previous night, but he said nothing about it. "Hey where's Tsume?" Kiba asked looking around. "I guess he never came back..." Hige said thoughtfully. Thinking any explaination he offered would be dismissed as the wildly active imagination of a young boy Toboe kept his mouth shut. "Spread out, search the entire hotel for Tsume! Inform the hotel staff of our missing pack-member!" Kiba commanded. The pack split up and rushed about the mansion searching everywhere for Tsume. All day they searched and couldn't find their missing pack member in any room. Strangers let them into their rooms to search for packmember. Still at the end of the day no sign of Tsume. "We're not leaving without Tsume!" Kiba commanded as they settled into their room to drift back to sleep.