"Thats the problem with leaving a trail of mutilated bodies in your wake, there is always a trail," Sapphire told the young Mirror mancer, going over to her closet. The darkness manipulator pondered for a moment where she put the box that would answer Gawain's question, then she remembered the top shelf and reached upward to have a few tendrils of darkness from the closet gently hand the box to her.With a nod of thanks to her own abilities Sapphire made her way out of the closet with what it seemed to be a long circular tube of a box.

Undoing the lid Sapphire removed the map like paper from the box, unraveling it with several teddirls of darkness and placing it on the floor. The Map was the map of the united states and it had several red colored pins in multiple areas. In fact there was at least three dozen of these pins scattered all across the map in no particular order. There was no real pattern, however there was one green pin down in Florida which had a date written next to it, nearly a month or so ago.

Sapphire pointed to the green pin, letting out a low sigh. "This is where Emerald was attacked, all of the red pins are attacks on his other victims. I stole this from Emerald the other day, we weren't the only ones trying to find him. Both Emerald and I recognize his signature of his attacks. " Sapphire shook her head at her sisters thick hardheadedness. "As you can see, most of the time the locations of his attack are very random almost sporadic. But Look, " Sapphire allowed a tendril of darkness to erupt from her uninjured hand and retrieve a paint small tipped brush with black paint on her easel.

She wrapped the tendril around it and drew a line from the date that Emerald was attacked to the next one, being in a city near by, then drew the line to the next one and the next one, the line was leading up the east coast and the closet pin to New York was in Pennsylvania. "See a pattern? I will give you one guess what state hes going to be in next and who his intended victim will be. But first he is going to have to kill someone else so he can satisfy his urges, I can almost guarantee you he will hide in a place that smells good to a wolfs nose. Like a old dog food factory or a abandoned butcher shop."

Gawain's eyes narrowed as he looked at the map. He didn't like the number of the dots, or the color, or the fac that they were there at all, and the thing he liked the least was the trail leading up from Florida towards New York. Bloodfang was still after the Lupins.

>>"I can almost guarantee you he will hide in a place that smells good to a wolfs nose. Like a old dog food factory or a abandoned butcher shop."

Gawain's own nose wrinkled.

"Yea, I can't really see how that can smell good, but ya've got a point there." he nodded "So, findin' him before he finds the Mansion would be a good start, huh."

The thought of the monster getting closer to the place where all his friends and family lived was already starting to creep him out.

Gawain stood, and looked at Sapphire.

"All right, since we're in this together..." he sighed "I'll let you know when I find him. Take care."

I must be out of my friggin' mind.