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A mostly quiet building.
There are dogs waiting for their owners, current or future or former, and an examination room, and a wooden counter between the office proper and the waiting room.
It's quiet, now quite a while since sunset.
The only employee is doing inventory.
She stays still, but if he's paying attention he'll notice her gradually relaxing under the touch.
He keeps petting the kobold.
Eventually, he yawns.
"If kobold give Scott happy, Scott thank kobold. Thanks kobold."
She lays there for a while longer, but when it's fully night, she teleports up to the roof to look at the stars.
She'll lay there for a most of the night, if nothing happens, with her fur blanket under her, watching and listening.
That's, uh. Not so much okay?
She can't teleport directly there, but she can get there pretty quickly anyway with the short hops she can do - within three or four minutes, unless she runs into trouble along the way. She'll look for cover to appear behind, for the last 'port.
In time to prevent the...being...from slashing all the way through.
The damage is done.
It turns, searching for the interloper.
Yeah, like hell she's sticking around to be found. She casts a single-use teleport trap under the victim, and she and they are gone in an instant. They appear in the McCalls' living room, and she screams for help while trying to stop the bleeding.
And here's Melissa, applying first aid, and her son, speaking to an arcane device, apparently describing the nature of his emergency.
And here goes Scott placing a hand on the victim.
His face contorts in pain as the veins on his arm turn deep black, instead of their faded blue.
She backs off when Melissa takes over - she doesn't actually know first aid for this species - and watches, still panicking.
When Scott starts changing color she attempts to drag him away.
"Scott want him less painful, will take pain."
The man does seem to be in less pain, though the benefits of this may seem dubious. He keeps bleeding onto their carpet.
That part of his job done, Scott fetches his mom what she needs. She keeps working.
"Kobold hide, kobold go alone, no humans see kobold."
She hisses at him under her breath when he tries to shoo her off, but does shoo, and then disappears back to the roof when told to hide.
And after a few minutes, there are sirens, and many humans rushing into the house.
They come out a few minutes later carrying the man on a stretcher.
One lingers inside for a while, and comes out looking more stressed than when he went in.
She winces at the light and sound, and waits for the ambulance to leave before checking with her mage-sense to see how many humans are now in the house.
She doesn't quite know Scott well enough to identify him via mage-sense, yet. She finds a spot she can teleport to and check that it's him, first.
"Scott okay?" She sounds very worried.
"I okay." She's kinda, uh, bloody, but it's plausible that none of it is hers, and she's not moving like she's hurt.
"Kobold want clean? Kobold ilva water kobold clean?"
He demonstrates clean by washing the blood off his hands.
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