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She pushes up the same drain grating that she went down the night before. She keeps the cloak fully pulled aorund her face. She sees no one around. She quietly replaces the grating.
She looks around, and pulls out her cell phone.
She dials a number and walks as she listens to it ring.
A machine message picks up.
"I am not availabe. Leave a message."
"Hi, I'm here. I'm hot on Absalom's trail. I'm in Cascadia. Give me a ring, I may need your assistance. If it's necessary, I'll give you a ring.", she finishes.
She closes her cellphone and heads to a phone booth. She picks up the phonebook and opens it up.
"Must find someone who can help me. Perhaps some of our kind.", she thinks.
She flips through the pages. She comes to an ad for a casino.
"Well, it may be a long shot, but maybe i can find others there.", she thinks.
She rips out the page and shoves it in her pocket.
She continues to walk down the street in search of a gas station.

She walks underneatht he sickly looking lights of the gas station. She pulls down her hood and she looks like a man. She walks over to the small office that the night man is in.
She opens the door and walks in. She holds the ad out to the man.
"Excuse me, i waswondering if you could give me the directions to this place.", she asks him.
"Well, you follow this road straight tehn after about a mile you turn left , then right. you con't miss it. It's pretty hard to miss a large casino.", he tells her.
"Well, thank you kind sir. Here's something for your help.", she says and hands him a five.
"Oh, not thank you. It wasn't a problem. Just my normal duty.", he tells her with a smile.
"But I insist.", she tells him.
"No, you keep that. You may just need it later.", he implores.
She simply nods and walks out of hte gas station. She heads out towards the casino.

She finds herself awash in a sea of lights. She looks at the ad and sees the casino bears the same name. She walks towards the door. Before she opens it up she hears the sound of coins clanking loudly against metal bins. The sound of money being won and lost only increases as she pushes open the doors and walks inside.
Her senses are greeted by the multitudinous lights that grace the slot machines. She walks away from them and over to the tables. She smiles evilly as she puts out a $100. She recieves $100 in chips. she then proceeds to bet on craps.

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Hermonie walks out into the moist night feeling a few hundred dollars richer.
"What a total wash.", she thinks, "I don't think any of them could be bothered. Oh well, at least i have the sewers and Snappy."
She walks down an alley way and retires to the place where the man's body lies.
A loud reptilian hiss is heard in the sewers.
"Come to me, Snappy.", she says.
Loud sloshing is heard as a twenty foot alligator approaches behind her and nuzzles her heels.
"Lets go home.", she hisses leading the alligator to her temporary home.