Grim ignored them and went through the pipe

Isiea follows.

She follows Isiea through.

They emerged from the drainage pipe to the sounds of car engines and street traffic, a shock after being in the wilderness for so long. They were in a downtown area, with buildings looming over them on either side. A sidewalk extended over the drainage pipe; beyond that, rush-hour traffic clogged the roads, and people shuffled down the walkway, absorbed in their own small worlds. No one seemed to notice a cat and a couple of scruffy, slightly bloodied girls crawl out of a drainage ditch.

('slightly'- Isiea is covered in chimera blood)


"So now where do we go?"

(xD True, true. Also, I forgot the kelpie. Whoops. Sorry, Ares. He came through, too.)

"One moment. It has been a while since I have been here. Let me think."

She waits.

Despite that, Lise stayed low and waited for Grim to remember where to go.

As he was thinking, a large figure in a tattered red hoodie lurched out of the crowd and came toward the girls, clutching a bottle in a sack. He looked like a homeless person. As he got close, he raised his head, and they could see a wrinkled, bearded face with fangs jutting crookedly from its jaw. In the shadows of the hood, his eyes were yellow and slit like a cat's. The stranger leered and stepped closer. He reeled of roadkill and bad eggs and fish rotting in the sun. "Pretty girls," the stranger growled, reaching out with a claw. "You came from there, didnt you? Send me back, now. Send me back!"

" I don't know what you're talking about. "