And This IS Why You Pay Attention To Things Around You.....

This starts out on the east wall top and then is down on the abbey grounds and goes back onto the wall tops and to the forest floor! =

Cynthia stares out into the woodlands quietly as she sits on the wall top, most likely not the best place to sit but at least it's not icy or that would make matters worse.

Caleb is not sure why he is up here, good a place as any and also he followed the mouse maid. He frowns as he watches her and finally gets out "Your gonna fall...and that would hurt"

Cynthia shrugs and doesn't brother turning around, "On been on rooftops and in trees before, no difference. I could probably get down and into the woods if I had a rope, it be really easy ya know" She turns around and looks over at him "It may be good also as Kyran might show up, it’s been more than a couple days"

Caleb folds his paws behind his back, "Who is Kyran? Some friend or something?" He waits on a reply.

Cynthia turns and hops down to the walkway along the wall as she was on one of the higher blocks "Are ya dense or something he not my friend" Her paws are on her hips" He...well..sort of, anyways he is gonna get all mad and stuff"

Caleb backs up and bumps into the wall and frowns, "I am not ..whatever dense is!"

Cynthia starts to chuckle at him" Ya don't even know what dense means, do you?" She shakes her head as if this is the funniest thing in the whole world and smirks at him, “You abbey beasts are so weird and your school is boring, that Sister Jenny did nothing when I left the class but grumble"

Caleb frowns, "Classes are to help us learn, and reading and writing is important and you would know that if you just went and didn’t skip class!"

Cynthia hmmphs as she crosses her arms over her chest, "You’re annoying, did ya know that? And I don't have to listen to you"

Caleb is starting to get annoyed at the mouse maid, "I.." He holds his temper in tack "I never SAID you had to listen to me, but you do have to listen to the elders and the leaders"

Cynthia rolls her eyes, "Whatever, I don't live here why do I have to follow silly rules. Rules never got me anywhere before and sometimes even got me in trouble.."

Caleb shakes his head, meanwhile on the ground below the wall someone watches them from the woods, it's hard to tell who or what it is but it has a long thin tail, sort of like a rat tail.

Cynthia goes on "So..rules are dumb sometimes and dangerous" She balances on one foot for good while as she talks, and looks back over the wall and frowns as she ducks down and goes to make Caleb duck down as well.

"Hey!" Caleb shouts out and goes to shove her away from him. "Stop being mean"

Cynthia goes to cover his mouth with her paw and glares at him, "Shhhhhh...I thought I saw someone down in the woods, by the wall you have to not yell your being stupid"

Caleb glares right back at the other mouse. But down below it becomes fairly clear what she saw was indeed a rat and not just any rat, its Kyran and he doesn't look very happy right now at all.

Cynthia frowns, “We got to get down and back inside, or least you do and I need to get outside before he gets real real mad at me"

Caleb frowns "But if there is a rat out there, you can't go out there that would be...well a dumb thing to do you said he wasn't a friend, then what is he?"

Cynthia seems to not answer that question, it’s unclear why as she just sighs, “Does it really matter, and it’s none of your business who or what he is and how I know him I just do ok?"

Caleb frowns at this, "But it does matter, you seem afraid of him and if he was a friend you wouldn’t be afraid of him, so is he a friend or not a friend I want to know. Maybe we can tell the abbot or Flicktail about it"

Cynthia just glares and gives a loud “NO!" Yeah and after she said they needed to be quiet, she is the one that screams loud and then goes stomping off down the stairs.

Caleb just pouts and then goes to follow the mouse maid "Where you going? You can't just walk off, one Papa Oz and the others will not like it..not at all and they should know about...about...the whats his name rat"

Cynthia speeds up on her quick walk and looks back and forth. She seriously needs to figure out how to get out of here and avoid the guards but first she has to lose Caleb and that so far does not seem easy to do.

Caleb does his best to keep an eye on where the mouse maid went and looks around with a frown. "Cynthia where did you go to?!"

Cynthia has gone off to -borrow- some sheets hanging on the lines to dry and she ties the ends together, she then runs back to the wall top and ties one of the sheets to the raised tower like block and makes sure its tight and drops the sheet rope thing now, it doesn't go down all the way and she frowns at this, “Well will have ta do" She then proceeds to climb down to the ground slowly, not that she will get all the way down as it’s a like 5 foot drop, she takes a deep breath and lets go and drops with an eeek and lands on a pile of dead leaves and branches which help break her fall, and luckily not anything else.

Caleb catches sight of something strange, a line of sheets and then follows it up the stairs and peers over “What are you doing I am gonna tell!" He then thinks better of it and does a not so smart thing, he starts to climb down the homemade rope of sheets and is at the last two when the top one breaks free of the tie and he gasps, screams as he falls towards Cynthia, this can't end well.

Cynthia eyes go large as the mouse lands on her, yeah...and she JUST got up and he tries to flatten her. She goes to shove him off and is tangled in the sheets as they fall on her, 19 out of 20 of them and starts cussing...whoa where did she learn cuss words

Kyran follows the noise and grins as he watches from very close by "Well well what is this now, falling young beasts?" He smirks and walks closer while they are distracted.

Caleb groans and has sprung his wrist and whimpers "My wrist hurts...." He has some tears in his face and then he is shoved and bumps his snout, he now goes to punch her as his nose bleeds. Luckily it's not broke or it most likely hurt worse, it’s scratched up really bad though.

Cynthia kicks at him and clearly misses a familiar voice, she is punched in the shoulder as she hisses at him "That hurt !"

Kyran bends down and goes to grab each one by the collar and says in a deep voice “Either of ya brats scream, ya die...either of ya brats try to get lose ya die, do you understand me?" His voice is threating and at the same time has an eerie calm to it as he looks between the two mice. Maybe they should have been paying more attention. The sheets are left alone as he has his own way of making beasts listen.

Caleb gasps as he is lifted up and his first instinct is to kick and scream but the rats words quickly make him go silent and he starts to shiver.

Cynthia hmmmphs as she holds back a scream and frowns "K.K..Kyran..I..I can explain I was late I know and I am s..s..so...sorry but Caleb is not gonna tell on you...right?" She looks at Caleb with a pleading look in her eye as if saying pretty please .

Kyran narrows his eyes "Do you take me for a fool brat, he would tell whoever is in charge of this place and then that only leads to trouble dearie, no he is coming with us." He smiles coldly at Caleb as he lets go of the mouse maid long enough to tie the mouse's paws behind his back, he knows the mouse maid won't run as he has put fear into her long before she came here.

Caleb just frowns and looks down at the ground as his paws are tied. He slowly looks up at Cynthia as tears go down his face and a look of one who has just lost trust or is confused as to why, just why.

Cynthia folds her paws in front of her and looks away from Caleb and mutters a "I'm sorry..." And the rat is correct as she doesn't run or even try to run away, she stays silent and looks at the pile of now dirty sheets from the mud and leaves and sighs, one sheet is still tied to the stone and flutters in the wind a little as dusk starts to fall. She looks at the ground "I..am so so sorry"

Kyran looks at Cynthia "Come Cynthia we must get away from here before beasts do notice, maybe we can train this one to steal and pick locks also, what ya say lass?"

Caleb just stays quiet and looks at the ground now. He could easily scream and get attention but he doesn’t, he is too afraid to.

Cynthia sighs and nods "Yes sir." She looks up at the lone sheet and then the pile of tied sheets, well least no one can climb back up, she kicks a couple leaves over the pile but it be hard to miss as they stand out and if one looks right below the one sheet they would find them. Also not all are white, a couple are green..so that helps as she goes to follow the rat."Ummm....yeah" She will say what is needed to protect an abbey beast.

Kyran goes to led the pair further into the woods before guards come and check this area of the abbey walls, and soon he has disappeared into the woods and towards a well-hidden campsite, where he will have no campfire that would draw attention, but least he has some blankets and heated coals to keep warm and heated coals do not make a ton of smoke, they make hardly any smoke at all.........

• • WELL, this can’t be good but maybe the missing sheets will be a clue and the one tied to the wall tower, and right under it 19 more tied together on the forest floor…well it’s a clue of something anyways **