Terrence restrained a howl of frustration when she shifted into fox form and bounded away. Not fair! First, his heart practically stopped when he'd seen her captured by that miserable excuse for a man. Then he found the key he needed hanging on a cord around her neck, making sense of the rose clue, and to top off an already annoying morning, she had the nerve to run off - again!
Not this time. She might think herself wily, however, Terrence knew just the person to help him find her again. The second best hunter in the Realm, sister to the number one tracker, Natalie, and it just so happened she awaited him in the library to give him a report on the boundary failures.
Striding quickly into the edifice, already bustling despite the early hour, he found Nat lounging against the front desk, her simple presence making the librarian behind it twitch nervously.