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Facilier walked down the streets of New Orleans, looking for Shadow. He could sense that Shadow was far away and had decided that the shade was probably avoiding him.
"Shadow!" He called. No answer. Sighing, the witch doctor kept walking. If he weren't so weak he would have tried a locator spell. He never should have yelled at Shadow. If something happened he would never forgive himself. He kept walking when he noticed a building out of the corner of his eye. He turned and looked at it. It was lit up and appeared to be a restaurant. He looked up and read the name of it: Tiana's Palace.
"Well I'll be damned," he said to himself. "I guess the little waitress got her restaurant after all." He looked the restaurant over. It was to bright to make an attractive hiding place for Shadow, to much light hurt him. Although Facilier couldn't rule it out completely. If Shadow didn't want to be found, he might just hide in the last place his master would think to look. And Shadow could be too curious for his own good. Deciding there wasn't any harm in checking it out, Facilier walked up to the restaurant and entered it.
Once he was inside he looked around. The waitress had done a good job. He smiled wickedly to himself; thinking of how he might have to go visit the owner some time when he wasn't so rushed, just to thank her for breaking his talisman. The patrons who were close to him reacted, looking away from their meals to eye him warily. Another time he might have toyed with them, but locating Shadow was the first thing on his mind at the moment. Besides, Shadow wouldn't want his master having fun without him. Facilier looked over the room, not moving from his spot in the doorway. He had kept the door open behind him. If Shadow was hiding in this light a place the darkness of the night might attract him. The voodoo man looked over the room but couldn't see or sense his friend. Finally he decided Shadow wasn't there and left, much to the relief of the customers.
He walked back down the streets, thinking of where Shadow could be hiding. He sighed, then, hearing a screech, turned around. He would have sworn he had seen two shadows moving in the darkness behind him. Once the realized they had been spotted the glided into the shadows and out of his sight. A chill ran down his spine and he turned. It seemed he wasn't the only one looking for his shadow. And he didn't want to think about what would happen if the Friends got to him first.
He saw you! The lead shadow hissed to her companions. The other two shadows nodded. She was quite the horror to behold. She was bigger than her male companions and had a much more unsettling form. She was long and snake-like, a mane running down her neck. One of her arms was a long tentacle that ended in a claw the other was an arm that ended in a hand, which instead of fingers, had five long tentacles. She screeched menacingly at her two companions.
Yes, my lady, one of them, his body nothing more than a black smoke, said. His friend, a cloaked figure nodded. The female hissed and slashed at both of them.
You fools! Now he knows we're hear. She sighed, a horrible noise. This will make destroying him and recapturing our own harder. Now he will be more careful, more rushed. Before we had surprise. Now, she sighed again, we have nothing.
We have our powers, the smoke creature said. He is weak and we are strong. In a fight we would win. The female shook her head.
You forget that humans have light, which will destroy us, she said. We must ambush him, and choke out his life before he can react. If we fail he will destroy us, and if he fails, then we will be left to Our Mistress. The other shadows shuddered at the mention of The Mistress.
What of his shadow, the cloaked shade asked. Even with this fight, he has always been close to his master. If he near by when we kill the human, he might fight us. The female shadow, which amongst her kind was known for cruelty, chuckled.
If our brother gets in our way, she said, we will kill him too.
Oh Noooo! that isn't going to be good for Facilier or Shadow. Who's that Mistress they were talking about. She must be pretty bad if even shadows are afraid of her. Facilier better be careful. Magic or not, if those shadows can surprise him, they'll kill him. And only a light spell (or any other direct blow of light) will work. And let me tell you, Mama Odie might be good at making light blasts but they are not Facilier's forte.