Laura crept from shadow to shadow not sure if she was hunter or hunted.

Are you SURE this is safe?

OF COURSE NOT! But that's what makes it exciting. I can tell you that I used to fight things far scarier than a large cat. I need to know what this diminished form can do.

"What the hell is AEGIS? Sounds like a mall security company." Laura quipped as they moved.

"I thought gods needed mortals, why does she hate them? Wait." Laura stopped suddenly, a stunned look on her face. "Are you saying that one religion is objectively true? Are you proof of divinity? Holy shit that's crazy."

"I wonder what other myths are real. If fairies are real then that means dragons must be or at least were at one time. But what about Cthulhu or does that not count because we know it's from a fictional novel?"

"Well I guess we just have to do this the hard way then." She said before starting the climb into the hills in an attempt to circumvent the agents entirely.

Laura crept behind the others. "So how are we gonna get down there? Jono, you said you could guide us right, get us past the guards or whatever?" She said using his nickname for the first time.

"Shit, everyone get down." Laura exclaimed while practically lying down to hide. "If they see us back here they'll just assume we are upt to something. We need to hurry up and get going wherever it is we are gonna go."

"Yeah that works, there is a large planter full of bushes there you can hide it behind so no one steals it. Not that there are a lot of people who do that here, more likely it would get taken to the police because they someone thought it was lost or abandoned." They walked on nearing the crosswalk t...

"I'm not sure splitting up is the safe move but you some of you really wanna go check out the warehouse..." Her words trailed off. "I'm gonna go to the lake, anyone else?"

"What is a DOOMRAT?" Laura asked sounding disgusted.

Ducked behind the bushes as they were Laura didn't see much of a problem with it and took out the map showing it to all of them.

Laura blushed lightly at the compliment and then turned to leave.

"Thanks Cameron see you tomorrow, good night." She said with a little wave as she left.

"Hey Cameron, yeah this is everyone I talked to. You didn't find anyone? Well, we aren't looking to take an army down there I guess. Let's get everything hidden behind this planter and get going?"

"God this is the kind of assignment I hate, if he would have just assigned us all the same book at the start of the year I could have had done this months ago." She said under her breath.

"Oh, right, Boulder is the big street on the edge of town near where the trail starts. Just walk down that and you should see me." Laura turned and they exited the alley now much closer to the school.

"Hey Astrid, cool bike!" She hopped own off the wall. "We definitely can't take that with us but it's cool you can ride. One of my dad's friends tried to teach me once and I broke my wrist though that was a three wheeler."

Laura slipped off her headphones. "Hey Jonothan, glad you made it." She looked at his bike. "I don't think we're gonna be able to take the trail down, I haven't checked but I imagine they have it blocked off unless you just wanna jump the fence and ride down." He could see that she hadn't brought a ...

"Ummm, meet me on the corner of Pine and Boulder, trailhead's only a few blocks from there or we can try and climb up the hill and go around through the trees. Just keep an eye out for cops, Officer Terry likes to patrol for kids at night and give them rides home."

"Yeah I know it seems out of character." She said brushing her hair back. "If I couldn't turn into a giant rock man it would be crazy but he REALLY wants to test himself against something on this planet. It would be great if you could come, Cameron wanted to go down last night but I convinced him th...