Off to See the Wizard [Active]

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Character(s): Belle, Harry Dresden, maybe Yuuko if she's interested
Content: Belle brings Harry some of Yuna's hair. Um.
Setting: Yuuko's Shop
Time: Evening, Week 7
Warnings: None.

Belle was hardly the most athletic woman in Paixao, but she was quick and agile as she ran through the dimly lit streets of the city. The muffled flapping of her dark blue cloak was the only sound that could be heard outside her hurried footsteps and that was unnerving enough. Ever since Yuna had gone missing, every shadow and every flicker outside her vision made Belle jump. She was spooked, needless to say.

She clutched Yuna's brush tightly to her chest as she jogged, narrowing her eyes. Knowing that Yuna was waiting for rescue, that Hades could be doing any number of horrific things to her...it was almost enough to break Belle, enough to be consumed by anxiety. But after seeing how the others had stood up for themselves at the message board, their determination to help...well. She'd gathered strength from that if nothing else.

There it was. Yuuko's shop. Well, if she'd read the map right. She pushed open the door of the unassuming gate and cried, a little too desperately, "Hello? Is anyone there?"

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"Always."

With a final wink Harry set off, keeping low to the ground and moving surprisingly quietly for such a tall man. Years of having to get the drop on various supernatural monsters had trained him on how to stay out of sight when he needed to.

The closer he got to the house Harry noticed two things. The first was that the hair was definitely pointing right at it, angled slightly down. The second was a growing feeling of raw power pressing on his magical senses, something that felt of heat and sent a shiver up his spine like wind through a graveyard. Whatever was in that house, it was very old, and very very powerful.

Harry was no slouch in the magic department. He may have still been young, and had a lot to learn about magic, but he'd run with heavy hitters before and had the assurance that no matter what he faced he was almost always assured to at least have enough power to have at least some influence on how things worked out. There were only a few times when Harry had known he was utterly outclassed before, and he was beginning to suspect this was another of those times.

If there was one thing Harry hated, it was feeling helpless.

Once Harry had gotten close enough to get a quick visual survey of the house, and to confirm that was where his spell was leading him, he backtracked quickly to where Belle was standing. He didn't dare get close enough to the windows for a look inside yet, because if whatever was in there was as powerful as he thought it was, he couldn't assume there weren't magical protections around the place. He was self aware enough to know that he couldn't take what was inside alone, and even if they were discovered and escaped, Hades would probably just hightail it to a new location and they would have lost the element of surprise.

Getting back to Belle he asked, "Can you modify the network so that Hades can't read it, or should we find another way to communicate with people?"