"Kate…!" Ben frowned at the way his voice squeaked her name.

She just smiled back at him in the most radiant way he had ever seen. "Hi, Ben." She came over and gave him a quick hug and pulled back. The only thing that registered in his brain was the sweet smell of her perfume and her slender arms gripping around his shoulders.

"You're here?" Ben asked a little surprised considering the mail she had sent him earlier.

"Yeah. Bethany lured me here with the promise of a fun time." She looked around at the people dancing and over at Bethany currently trying to suck some guy's tonsils out with her mouth.

Ben frowned. "Well at least she's having fun?" He offered with a tentative smile.

She returned it with a dazzling one of her own. She stared at him for a second whilst he pretended not to notice. "You wanna go somewhere more private?"

His eyes snapped to hers in a second and stared. "W-What?"

"To talk?" She seemed not to notice his surprise caused by the possible implications of her question.

He shook it off and smiled. "Yeah, sure."

They wormed through the dense crowd and onto the back yard porch. The only light there was the bright yellow squares reaching out in the darkness from the living room. Otherwise the people just had the pale moon and the foggy stars to keep them company. Drunken and dazed teenagers hung around there too. Including one Ben hadn't expected to see. Ryan Humphrey was in a group talking to his moronic friends.

Kate noticed his stare and leaned over. "They're probably discussing the score of tonight's football game."

"There was a game tonight?" Ben asked surprised. Sometimes it amazed him how much he missed simply because he didn't care about the dreary everyday life that all others seemed so hung up about.

Kate huffed a light laugh. "You really should try to take notice once in a while, Braeden." She smiled and ruffled his hair. He just smiled and let her.

Unnoticed to the two teenagers a certain boy at the party had noticed their smiles and sneered as jealousy burned in his gut. Ryan stared at Kate and the Braeden boy hitting on her. Ryan was a big guy. Captain of the football team had a tendency to do that to you. His friends were big guys too. But what Ryan treasured most was his power. His power to get what he wanted. And he wanted Kate.

Ben noticed Ryan staring at him out of the corner of his eye. He ignored it when he started poking his buddies and pointing to Ben. He desperately wanted just a few more minutes alone with Kate before his night was ruined by this huge oaf of a man. Kate said something that he completely missed as all his attention was drawn to Ryan and his buddies moving in.

"Wanna go somewhere else?" Ben asked in a rush. He really didn't need this right now.

Kate frowned at his stressed body language and suddenly noticed Ryan moving over to them. "Oh no. Please don't start anything with him, Ben." She begged. Ben frowned.

"Me? Start something with him?" His incredulous voice asked. "He's the instigator you need to worry about."

"You're always the one who takes the first punch." She said insightfully.

Ben didn't look at her, but had his focus solely on the group moving towards them. "Well I wouldn't if his face didn't have such a friggin big target painted on it." Ben's eyes narrowed when Ryan caught his gaze.

She sighed and looked from one boy to the other. "Let's just go." She pulled Ben's arm and nodded encouragingly to him. He took a second to look into her eyes. The bright blue hues that still shone even in the dim light from inside the house. She was asking him not to fight for her. He nodded once and smiled. Just as he had grabbed her arm and was about to guide them away from the group closing in he felt a sharp tug in the back of his shirt that set him off balance. In his surprise he tightened his grip around Kate and staggered back with her right next to him.

He heard someone behind them yell "dude they are so drunk!" and laugh. Ben staggered and grabbed Kate and righted her with him. He felt anger rising as he turned to face Ryan grinning stupidly at him. He laughed and grinned with his buddies as they all laughed at Ben.

"C'mon, Ben. Let's get outta here." Kate said as she tugged him again.

Ben felt his fingers tingle with energy. He felt adrenalin fill his veins and anger rise to the surface. He had never had anyone to stand up for him. He'd had to be strong. Strong for his mother. For his friends. For Kate. Despite the anger he didn't want to fight tonight and settled for a very judgemental look directed at Ryan. "Yeah, there's nothing worth hanging around for anyway." His voice was slow and calm, but his body held tense.

Kate tugged them both and Ben allowed himself to be guided. As he was about to turn he heard Ryan speak up again and stopped.

"What's the matter, Baby-Braeden? Scared?" His sickening laugh rang out, but he didn't turn.

Instead he looked at Kate. She offered a timid smile which he returned with a brilliant one of his own. "Of a shit-face like you? Never?" His voice was still low. Just low enough that Kate and Ryan would have heard. And no one else.

"What did you say?!" Ryan rushed forward and spun Ben around.

Ben set his jaw and stared at him defiantly.

"What?" Ryan laughed. "You seriously think you're getting out of here alive tonight?" The hollow threat did nothing to dim the defiance in Ben.

"I will unless your fat ass sits on me by accident." Ben tilted his head. He had just opened that big fat mouth of his and was thinking that now might be a good time to stop. Ahr screw it! "You should really post a warning on your back ya know?" Ryan frowned. His pea-brain probably doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about. "You know one those tee shirts with writing on them. Something like "Step back! Heavy load" should suit you great." Ben flashed his most adoring smile and Ryan's frown just carved deeper into his forehead.

"What the hell are you trying to say!?" He stepped forward right into Ben's face.

"Think he's saying you're fat." One of his goons stepped in.

Ben glanced at the friend. "Bravo. Give the man a buck and stuff him back in the locker till next time."

Ryan's frown was slowly becoming his entire expression. "Do you ever just talk like normal people, Baby-Braeden?" That turned the frown upside down.

But Ben didn't flinch. "I always talk like normal people so I'm surprised you can't understand what I'm saying?" He tipped his head again and widened his eyes. "Should I talk slower?" He asked with a low and slow voice.

Ryan frowned, but didn't respond.

Ben turned and gently pushed Katy in front of him. "Let's go, Kate."

"Yeah run away. Like your dad did!"

Ok low blow! Ben felt anger rekindle.

"Does the slut of a mother even know who he is by the way?" Ryan laughed along with his friends.

He turned and stared at the group with dark eyes.

"For all we know it could have been anyone." Ryan stepped closer. "Like that bastard Jonesy?" I heard it was the moles that finally got him." Ryan laughed again.

"Stop talking about him." He felt his anger rise, but only slightly. He still had control…. or so he liked to tell himself.

"Or what? You'll hit me?" Ryan shoved him back and smiled. "You'll yell for that little friend of yours and start hitting us?" He lifted his hands and shook theatrically. Then a second passed and he sobered. "Why don't you just take that bitch of a girlfriend with you and get the fuck out of my house? I don't want her anymore…" With that he turned to his friends.

The last thing Ben heard was Kate yelling. "Ben no!"

He felt a wave of anger carry him forward as he crashed into Ryan Humphrey's back and knocked them both to the ground. Ryan yelled out as he hit the wooden porch nose first. Crimson gushed from the broken facial feature along with a flow of choice words. For a split second Ryan's friends didn't know how to react. Ben immediately turned Ryan over and started pounding his fists into his face over and over again. The friends standing behind Ben suddenly spurred into action and all lunged forward and pulled Ben up and away. But they didn't stop. They lifted him and pulled him out onto the back yard lawn. There they dropped him and then the real fun began. First Dave took a swing. Just as Ben jumped to his feet he felt a fist connect with his cheek and snap his head back. He then felt another fist shook up and catch him over the ribs from behind. As the air wheezed out of him his back arched and he realized his mistake. A solid kick in the stomach pushed him back down on the wet grass. He vaguely heard Kate yelling and screaming for them to stop. He then heard the very distinct sound of skin hitting skin and her yells faded. That was when his rage was no longer his to control. He welcomed it with a vicious smile and open arms as his actions became those of a being of anger. Just as another of Ryan's goons stepped up to kick Ben stilled and focused on the motion of the one guy. He goon was swinging from a bad angle and Ben smiled at the damage he was going to cause. As the guy kicked Ben's foot shot out and hit the guy just above the knee. He barely hit with all he had, but it was still enough for him to crumble to the ground in a heap and angry curses and pained yells.

Ben leaped from the ground and punched the first guy he saw in the face. He felt his fist connect with a satisfying crack and smiled again. That was when he saw Kate standing on shaking legs protectively curling her fingers around her cheek. Ben saw red. Ryan was standing a little in front of her with a sour grimace and moving ready to pounce. He friends went down in a flurry of punches and kicks. And just as Ryan stepped forward Ben had dropkicked the lot of them. Just him and Ryan.

He had a second to appreciate the joy of having him all to himself before he rushed forward and caught the quarterback off balance. Ben forcefully shoved him to the ground and smiled as he heard a strangled groan emanate from the bastard who insulted his family and friends. Ben straightened up and bunched his fists and started swinging.

He only got two swings before he felt strong hands grab him gently around his chest and lift him up. He struggled for a second while anger still burned red inside, but quickly settled when a familiar voice called for him to relax.

"Benny. Ben! Calm down, man. C'mon." Keo's soft voice called out. Ryan and his friends were still down and Ben felt the anger leave him like water drying on his skin, leaving him cold. His breath settled as he calmed down and looked around at the damage. A bit away stood Kate staring at him with worried eyes. A couple of her friends had gathered around her and was comforting her and cursing at the jerk Ryan for hitting her like that. These were a different type of popular girls. The elite. Not only socially, but educationally. They knew better than to mingle with dumb jocks and violent freaks like Ben.

Ben's face fell when he noticed the amount of damage done to the other guys. Most of their faces were bruised and bleeding. Some of them were cupping wounded body parts. Ryan was unconscious on his back. "Oh god…" Ben whispered and started shaking.

"C'mon. Let's go." Keo pulled them both away from the mess and around the house instead of through it.

Ben was shaking as Keo put him in the car. He was bleeding from his nose and a small cut above his eyebrow, but didn't seem to notice. After making sure he was strapped in Keo jumped to the other side and got in behind the wheel. Just as he fired up the engine he saw Kate running to catch him.

"Keo wait!" He looked at her with a frown and made as if pulling away. "Keola!?" She stretched out her arms and ran to the driver's window.

He wouldn't look at her. A part of him felt like it was her fault somehow. A big part of him knew it was his fault for ever suggesting they go to this thing. "What?" But he couldn't deal with guilt right now, so he focused on his anger towards the people in that house. Everyone in that damn school.

Her face fell a fraction. "I'm coming with you." She said in her usual confident voice.

"Why don't you go back to your real friends instead of leading him on?" Keo nodded to Ben who was completely unaware of anything around him.

"You're my friends-"

"Oh yeah? I didn't see you stepping in a helping out in there!?" He never noticed the red mark across her face in the dark.

She looked down with tears brimming her eyes, but quickly pulled it together. "I can help now."

"How?" Keo challenged.

She flashed a confident smile despite the tears still in her eyes. "I know how to sow." She nodded to Ben's cuts and back to Keo. "Will you let me in?"

He sighed and waited as she got in the back seat.

On the drive home Ben had slowly become more lucid. The three friends were standing in front of Ben's house staring at the lit living room windows with worried looks.

"She's waiting up." Ben said as he leaned slightly against Keo's shoulder without it looking obvious he saw about to fall on his face.

"And we're never going to get you inside looking like that." Kate said.

"So I'll distract her while you get him inside." Keo said with a nervous smile.

"That's never gonna work, man." Ben said.

"Ye of little faith. Trust me." Keo smiled and looked at Ben.

"You're not gonna set my couch on fire again are you?" Ben asked with fear in his voice.

"One time!" Keo readily defended. "It was an accident. I keep telling you that!"

Ben raised a hand and surrendered. "Whatever you say. Jus' don't do it again." He begged.

Keo huffed, but Kate couldn't help the small smile. She suddenly got an idea. "What if you call her and tell her you're sleeping over at Keo's?"

"And what do we tell my parents?" Keo asked with a little more anger than he really meant to.

"That you're sleeping at Ben's." She said as if it was obvious.

"And where do we actually go?" Ben asked her.

"To my place." She smiled.

"Oh I don't like the sound of this." Keo said.

Ben frowned. "The problem is still there." He pointed to his face.

She shrugged. "My mom is out of town."

Keo darted wide eyes to her. "You might have mentioned that before I spent like a gallon of gas getting us here!"

"I'll pay for the gas if you want me to-"

"Damn right I do!"

"She's not gonna pay for gas you moron." Ben interrupted and silenced the bickering.

Keo sulked as they decided on the plan of action.

The three friends returned to Kate's empty house. The small rust-spotted Civic looked ridiculous in front of the large upper/middle class pastel colored home. Ben had never been to her house before. About a month after the incident when he was following his eighth birthday the parents and children involved had formed a group. They would get together once a week. The children in one room, the adults in the other. Then once a month the two groups would meet up and talk together. Parents and adults in one room. It had always been held at private homes. The families involved had taken turns to host the meetings. Ben couldn't remember there ever being a meeting in Kate's mom's home. He had certainly never been to one. The meetings were still held, but it had been ages since Ben had attended one. He still had nightmares despite the damn meetings. They always started as good dreams of a strong man picking him up and hugging him. He smelled the worn leather even in his dreams. They always turned to nightmares when the monsters crept back into his room and grabbed him from his bed. Those twisted faces. Hollow eyes and rows of teeth designed for nothing else than to tear into skin. The nightmares always ended with the strong arms releasing him and leaving. He glanced over at Kate walking to the door with her key.

"Do you still go to the meetings?" He asked out of the blue.

She turned and stared at him, the key all but forgotten. She knew what he meant. "No… You?"

He shook his head.

"I discovered they really didn't help any more." She looked down. "I still had nightmares with or without the talks."

Keo shrunk away and tried to blend in with the night. He felt like such a third wheel right now.

"Yeah me too." Ben looked completely lost in her.

Keo decided he had waited long enough. He was tired and cold and really needed to sit pee. "Can we possibly continue this inside?" He was shuffling his feet around and jumping slightly. "Or do you want my bladder to explode in your driveway?"

Kate smiled and unlocked the door. Ben stood for a second and watched them go inside. He felt more connected to her than never before and a smile silently made its way to his face as he followed them in and closed the door behind him.

They made their way up to Kate's bedroom. She pointed for Ben to sit on the bed and for Keo to have a seat on a small chair next to it. It was like any other girl's bedroom. Ben didn't really know what he had expected. Fluffy pillows and a bunch of band posters. One he didn't expect to see was one of Aerosmith adorning the empty space directly over her bed.

"Nice." He said with a smile. "Aerosmith is cool." His voice was low and calm trying not to sound too over exited.

"Are you kidding me? They rule." She said as she sat down with a little first aide box next to him.

"They're ok. AC/DC…" He said and smiled, "they rule."

"They're alright…" She said as she pulled out a sterile wad and wiped some of the blood away from his forehead.

"You're both insane." Keo spoke up from his seat directly in front of the computer. He was already clicking away on the internet. "Hayseed Dixie. Now they rule."

"Keo, don't touch her computer." Ben said tiredly.

Kate interrupted. "S' alright. There's nothing there to incriminate me." She said with a smile directed at Ben.

"There will be when he's done." Ben continued.

Keo interrupted. "Who doesn't have porn on their computer dude? C'mon…"

"I don't'." Ben said pointedly.

Keo sighed. "Well I don't have porn, but I have something just as good." Kate said and walked over to the computer. She pushed Keo aside and leaned over beside him.

"What's better than porn?" He asked seriously.

She looked down at him with an equally serious look. "This."

"Holy crap!"

"What?" Ben couldn't see the site from his seat on the bed. As he got up he felt vertigo get the better of him. He was quickly saved by his two friends and placed back on the bed.

Keo who was still surprised answered his question. "Dude you should see her computer. There's loads of sick shit there. I mean, really…."

Ben looked at Kate who simply shrugged. "I have weird hobbies."

"She has sites with information on ghosts and demons." Keo said as he turned to stare at Ben with dark eyes. Ben nodded once in comfort. Kate never noticed the exchange.

Kate pulled out a couple of cotton balls and gently stuffed them in Ben's nose despite his arguments. She poked the thin cut in his eyebrow gently and frowned in sympathy when he hissed. "Doesn't look like you need any stitches. Doesn't look that deep."

"How do you know?" Keo came over to inspect the cut too.

"Used to be a candy striper at the local hospital. You have no idea how many times I've heard that sentence from doctors." She rolled her eyes and smiled when Ben grinned.

"What's so funny?" She asked as she put on a band-aid.

"The image of you in a candy striper dress." He saw her face blush for the tiniest of seconds only to return to its normal color.

"I looked damn cute in that dress." She said as she pulled the cotton wads out of his nose.

"There. All done."

"What the hell?" Keola's disbelieving voice called from in front of the computer.

"What?" Ben asked only half interested.

"You have info about Jonesy." He said as he turned to face Kate.

She looked almost sad as she came over and pulled up two more chairs for Ben and Keo. She took the one directly in front of the screen. "There's a good reason for that."

"I really can't think of anything that could explain this." He pointed a post mortem picture taken of Jonesy on the autopsy table.

Ben frowned and looked to Kate as she sat down in front of the computer. "I'm investigating his death."

"What?" Keo asked in a disbelieving voice.

"Keo, calm down." Ben said in a calm voice.

"Dude, she has websites about monsters and demons on her preferred list and pictures of dead guys on her computer. Why the hell am I the one who needs to calm down?" Keo was standing.

"Keo, please just sit down and let me explain." Kate tried.

"No!" He refused.

"She's just doing what you and I are doing too." Ben said very slowly.

Keo froze and looked at Ben with dark, secretive eyes. "This is not the same."

"What is?" Kate asked but was ignored.

"She's just doing the same thing I am." Ben said calmly.

"Not the same, dude." Keo maintained.

"I started a file on Jonesy too." Ben said.

Kate watched as Keo paled a little.

"You what?"

"I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid you'd tell me to leave it alone."

"Damn right I will-"

"He didn't just die…!" Ben stubbornly maintained. "Something killed him."

"Something…?" Kate asked slowly.

Both boys turned to stare at her with open mouths.

"We might as well tell her now." Ben said and shrugged. Keo sighed and sat back down gesturing to Ben to take the lead. Ben turned back to Kate and stared intently at her. "You're not the only one who has weird hobbies." He said with the wisp of smile softening his face. He glanced at Keo who nodded for him to continue.

"Remember those two guys who rescued us back then?" He asked knowing she would.

"Yeah." He saw the recognition in her eyes.

"They're not normal guys." He took a deep breath. "They were hunters." She frowned.

"Hunters of…. what?"

"'What' is exactly right." Ben said with dark eyes.

"Monsters…." She finished for him. "They hunt monsters."

"Just like me and Keo." He finished and made her face pale even more.

For a second he saw a disbelieving frown work its way over her face and felt his world crumble. Then the frown was replaced with shock. "You hunt this stuff?" She looked back at Keo.

He shrugged and looked down. "Not me as much. I mostly do the digging…" He smiled to himself. "Literally."

Ben flashed a smile too, but Kate didn't understand the shared joke. "What?"

"We don't do this a lot. There's not a lot of free time for us to do it in and we're not that good…. Yet." He finished. "I'm learning and one day I'm gonna be the best one out there."

"The best hunter?" Kate asked.

Ben felt some of the disbelief still lingering in her. "You know as well as I so that you can't just continue like nothing happened when you've experienced something like that. Something that terrifying." He finished.

She knew. She knew perfectly well what an experience like that did to you. It made you paranoid. Ever since that time she had felt more aware of the world around her. The things she would have taken for granted before were now just big question marks. She had learned one thing from that experience. That was that she didn't know anything. So she had decided to learn. She had decided to get to know the world around her. For better and for worse. She had never heard of hunters though. She had never imagined Ben to be one. But now that she thought about it, it made sense. He was strong, just, brave. He fit the mold the word brought with it. Hunter. Protector of innocence. Defender of the weak and slayer of evil. She smiled at the last one. He mind was running away with her.

In front of her he smiled back. Then her face sobered. Seriousness took over. "I wanna help." She said in the strongest voice she could.

"Oh hell no-"

"Keola…" She turned to the objecting friend and looked him deep in the eye, Ben momentarily forgotten. "I can do this. I know what's out there. I can help you find it and kill it." He face fell and he looked to Ben for help.

He came through. "It's too dangerous." He said. Kate turned back to him.

"I know exactly how dangerous it is. I was right there next to you, remember?" Anger laced her words and made Ben take notice. "I can do this job just as good as you."

Ben's face fell too.

"She makes too good a point." Keo said with regret. Ben looked at him.

"Still think it's too dangerous." Ben said in a low voice.

Kate leaned forward and grabbed Ben's hands in hers. "I need to help. I can't just sit back and watch the world go to hell."

He stared deep into her eyes and made his decision. "We're in charge. We have one thing you don't and that's experience with this stuff. You do as we say and if it get's too dangerous you pull back. Understood?" Ben asked seriously.

"Understood." She couldn't help the satisfied smile, but would quickly regret it.

"This isn't a joke, Kate. This is real and dangerous."

"I know. I'm sorry." She looked down and back to the computer. "This is gonna take all night isn't it?"

Keo huffed. "If we're lucky. Figuring out these things usually takes days."

"I think it's a trickster." Kate said and turned to the screen. With trained fingers she pulled out several windows with pictures of various monsters and written explanations.

Keo raised his eyebrows and look at Ben for answers. He looked just as surprised as him. "How did you get to that conclusion?" Keo asked and moved closer.

Kate pulled up another page of a certain trickster and sat back. "Well it starts with the Erie tribes which populated the area around here for several hundred years ago. Hence the name Lake Erie."

"Yeah we know." Keo supplied, but was silenced with a look from Ben.

"Well the Erie tribe was later concurred by the Iroquois tribe due to their inferior numbers-"

"Who were inferior? The Eire tribe or the Iroquois?" Keo asked slowly getting pulled into the story.

Kate stared at him along with Ben. "The Erie you ass." Ben threw a pillow at him and returned to the screen and Kate.

She refocused and clicked on a new page for more information. "The Erie tribe's religion was slowly intermixed with that of the Iroquois and got difficult to distinguish. But seeing as all Indian lore is basically the same only with different names for the same things, the creatures are the same, but the names just change."

"So what's this one called?"

"A Hagondes." She said and clicked up a new page. "It says he is a clown spirit who likes to play tricks on humans. Says he likes winners and despises people he sees as unworthy." She looked from Ben to Keo. "Like alcoholic school janitors who never amounted to very much…" She finished.

Ben's eyes darkened too as he took in the info. It was Keo who broke the silence.

"Well this is good news." He leaned over and typed in a new page. "They're easy to kill."

"Wait wait wait. Are we even sure this thing is a trickster? If it was I would have thought there would be more deaths?"

"Maybe it's just getting started?" Kate suggested.

"Yeah and are you really just gonna wait till it kills someone else?" Keo asked as he brought up the page he was looking for. "Here. says you kill 'em by shoving a stake through their hearts."

"That's it?" Ben asked. "Just a stake through he heart and they die?"

"I thought that was vampires?" Kate interrupted.

"Yeah so did I." Keo said as he read the page a little closer. "Says it has to be dipped in lamb's blood."

"Were the hell do we get that?" Ben asked already imagining this think keeping on killing.

"The butchers?" Kate suggested.

Keo smiled. "See, this is why I suggested we should bring her along in this."

"You did no such thing!" Kate argued heatedly. "You said-"

"Now now. We don't need to argue about that now." Keo interrupted.

"So we're really doing this?" Ben's serious voice asked.

"I thought you did this stuff on a regular basis?" Kate asked.

"Never anything this big." Ben said with a serious voice. "A few ghosts, a poltergeist one time." He glanced at Keo. "We thought we found a werewolf once, but it turned out to be something else."

"What was it?" Kate asked.

"That's not important. What is is that we've never been up against anything this big before. We have no idea how strong this thing is."

"Says here it's got the power of a demi-god. Whatever the hell that is…"

"It's a half god. Son or daughter of a human and a pure god." Kate answered without looking up.

"How did you know that?" Keo asked completely surprised.

Kate shrugged. "I did some research."

"How the hell do you have time for this and school?"

She shrugged again. "Don't know. Just sit around sometimes anyway with nothing to do. Might as well use it to learn something."

"We learn at school." Keo argued.

"Kate learns at school. You use it to practice your favorite hobby…" Keo looked over at a smiling Ben. "…Sleeping." He said with an even brighter smile.

"Jerk." Keo fired off.

"Bitch." Ben said in a flat voice.

"Guys?" Kate asked. "If this thing is here, then where is it staying when it's not busy killing?"

Ben looked down in thought. "At the school maybe?"

"Isn't that a little too obvious?" Keo asked.

"You got any better ideas?"

"How about Evergreen?" Kate suggested.

"The cemetery?" Keo asked with disbelief.

"Don't know…" Ben drawled out. "An Indian spirit hanging out on a Christian cemetery?"

Kate smiled. "It wasn't always Christian."

"What?"

"It was once used as a whole nother religious burial ground."

Ben smiled too. "Lemme guess… Indian burial ground?"

Kate answered simply by smiling too. She glanced at Keo and saw a devious smile on his face as well.

"Oh this is gonna be so sweet." Keo's smile turned to a big grin as he felt the thrill of the hunt rise.