Ozzie
"It wouldn't hurt you to help me Ozzie," Tweek said from the corner of the Ravenswood Manor library. He had been paying attention to a diagram of some sort of something-or-other and had walked into a bookshelf. All of the books had fallen towards his tiny, earthy figure and he was trapped beneath a large, thick copy of The Encyclopedia of Everything.
"You know," Ozzie said thoughtfully, "I would help you, I really would! It's just that I'm all the way over here, spending time with this amazing bucket of fried chicken," Ozzie licked his fingers happily and thought he heard Tweek mutter something about ferrets having a low intelligence level, but before he could dwell on it, the three mages had burst into the room and headed in his direction.
"Ozzie, where's Tweek?" Emily asked quickly.
"Please say he's not out in the preserve," Kara pleaded. Ozzie looked at Adriane, confusion seeping into his eyes.
"I don't really know what's going on," the warrior said nonchalantly, shrugging and shaking her head. Ozzie blinked before pointing towards Tweek, who was still stuck under the encyclopedia.
"Tweek!" Kara shrieked, "Stop messing around! This is a very serious matter!" Ozzie glanced a Emily, but the healer's eyes were locked on Tweek. Ozzie then turned to Adriane, who mouthed "I died" and then shrugged again.
Emily began to explain what had happened, how she had seen Adriane's ghost and then Adriane herself had appeared, confusing the three of them thoroughly. Ozzie listened intently, absorbing every detail, while Tweek didn't seem to be listening, inspecting his HORARF (Tweek's own little Encyclopedia of Everything) with all of his interest. After a couple of minutes, Emily stopped talking to stare at him. "Tweek? Are you even listening?"
"Hm? Oh, of course. I knew what was wrong from the moment you entered the room," Emily's jaw dropped, her eyes wide.
"Why didn't you say anything? Can't you tell we're distressed?"
"Of course, but I'm allowed to have a little fun, aren't I?"
"NO!" The three girls shouted in unison. The little stick figure stared at them for a moment, eyes wide, before continuing with his explanation.
"Adriane didn't die. She echoed," Tweek smiled at them, but when they didn't smile back, his smile fell into a frown. "You can't tell me that you don't know what echoing is," The girls didn't answer. Sighing, Tweek told them. "Echoing is part of the dream state, very common with mistwolves. It's when a dream that holds a message is so important that it has to happen more than once. Usually, a part of the mistwolf's spirit is temporarily separated from their being in order to relive the dream for better understanding of it. Adriane simply echoed. A small part of her soul parted from her body so that she could speak to the person that she had a conversation with in her dream,"
"But...I didn't talk to anyone in my dream. It was just me, alone in the big, empty field," Ozzie started, his amber eyes growing wide.
"Field? What field? What was it like?"
"Well, it was big and empty, hence the term 'big, empty field'," Adriane said sarcastically. Ozzie frowned at her and was about to say something else when Dreamer and Lyra burst into the room.
"We have a problem," Lyra said quickly, " is at the front gates,"
Beasley Windor
Mrs. Beasley Windor hid in the bushes at Ravenswood Animal Preserve right next to the gates. She was dressed in camouflage and was wearing a hat plastered with mud and leaves. "This time," she said quietly to herself, "This time I'll get something to prove I'm right,"
Keeping her head down, she crept forward into the preserve. From bush to brush, tree to tree, she tried to stay hidden. "Th–they can't outsmart me," She growled, "They c–can't have eyes everywhere. It's–it's impossible for them to know," Since she had been fired, she had begun stuttering. And fumbling. Lots of fumbling. After a while, she'd become used to it, but it didn't help her stealth when she couldn't stop tripping and dropping things.
, peeking over a juniper bush, spotted two odd looking deer. They had long ears, were striped, and (weirdest of all) had fur that was a soft shade of green. The strange deer walked side by side into the forest and, without them noticing, Beasley Windor followed them.
Emily
"We need to stop her from reaching the secret glade!" Kara screeched.
Ariel flew through the open window suddenly, "There's nooo way we can possibly stop her!"
"Wrong," Adriane said quickly, "I can ask Stormbringer to step in, maybe she can slow down for a while," Emily sat through all of this, stunned into silence and, once again, powerless to stop Ravenswood from being exposed. If only there was something she could do...
Bingo.
Without being seen by the others, the healer slipped out of the library door and straight into the forest. She ran as fast as she could through the trees, looking and listening for any sign of . She finally heard what she needed. "I n–never thought I'd f–find something like this! What p–proof! What magic..."
Emily thought she had heard wrong. Ariel had said that had been moving towards the glade, but at the moment they were closer to the portal field... Oh no. Emily sprinted forward just in time to see the portal closing. was still in the portal field, she hadn't gone through the portal, but three new faces were also in the field. Three faces that Emily knew well.
"Are you sure this is the right place?" Asked one.
"Positive. Lorren and I have been here before," said another.
"Yes, Marlin, Zach speaks the truth. This is Ravenswood." The three boys only then seemed to notice , staring at them with an odd sort of hunger. A need for something. For proof.
"Oops," Marlin said quietly. Emily's mind was whirring.
Yeah, Oops.
