As Shaun is walking up the steps to leave the basement, Elisha is just opening the door, "Hey I'm done, I'll pick him up at the end of my shift tonight" said Shaun, Elisha is just looking at Shaun with confusion, "What was that howl just now, it was so loud I felt the building shake" replied Elisha, "Ah well he took a swipe at me when I was examining him and I know certain points in a Lycans body that cause extreme pain so I used them in defense, and he let out a howl because of that, sorry if you were worried" replied Shaun while faking a sheepish look, thinking fast as he walked up the stairs to leave the basement, this was the excuse he had come up with which would be somewhat believable, and Elisha not knowing Shaun's history just adds to the plausibility that he could know something like that.
"Anyway" Shaun said while waving the situation away and closing the hatch behind him, "I'll be taking him when my shift is over tonight so as not to have any mishaps while I'm not here, you never know what could happen" Elisha just looks at Shaun with confusion again at the readiness to take the Lycan, "You don't gotta worry sugar, he is safe and secure in that cage, aint no way he gettin outta there" assured Elisha with a look of pride on her face, Shaun on the other hand just starts shaking his head slowly while looking downward, "I have no doubt that what you said would be true if not for that howl earlier, when I said you never know what could happen, I was referring to outside factors who will have more than likely heard that and will be snooping in no time to find the source of the noise, not only SN's but normals as well, and you never know when he might make a noise like that again, what would happen to your business if someone discovered a person in your basement in a cage, you would be on the run for a long time with that kinda heat on you, the normals who brand you as a human trafficker and the SN's would be hounding you for not only trafficking a shifter, but a Lycan at that, when you should have immediately handed him to the proper authority's to deal with him appropriately".
It took a minute before Shaun's words sunk in and when they did a look of concern appeared on her face and her heartbeat picked up a bit while thinking of all the implications before a look of absolute anger took over her expression "Did you do this on purpose, is this your way of blackmailing me into servitude, WELL IS IT!??" Elisha roared while grabbing Shaun's collar, seething at the idea of being shackled to a vampire who could just use her as a walking talking bank and blood bag, Shaun had a look of shock and confusion on his face for about half a second before realising what she was thinking, that this was his way to twist her favour to be something he could exploit over and over again, returning his expression back to a neutral, calming one while placing his hands gently on hers to remove them from his cloak.
"Calm down Elisha, I am not like others of my kind, I don't do underhanded things like that, especially with my employers, I'm offering to take him away so that what I mentioned won't come to pass, I'm also going to count it as your favour, so you get a 2 for 1 deal, nothing more nothing less, its that simple, so no, I wont be extorting you into servitude, but I do have a request/advice for you, get your hands on something called Hundred-eye Root, and Fairy Teeth, turn them into powder and place them in a waterbowl in that basement and in this warehouse, it will erase the smell of any kind of shifter from the area and dampen the senses of most SN's so they can't pick up on any lingering traces for about a month, by that time, any traces of the Lycan will be gone and you won't have to worry about it, and do NOT let anyone know you were dealing with SN's or Lycans, dont let them know you had one, where he was last seen, who he was with, nothing, okay, do that, and your bases are covered" Shaun said while pointing at certain areas where it would be best to place the powder, before turning around and giving Elisha some space to take in everything Shaun had just rattled off, before a furrowing her brows and looking at Shaun after a while.
"Where would I get them, I haven't heard of Hundred-eye Root before, and I didn't think fairies had teeth, these are rather unusual items", Shaun just smiled and pointed at a pot that had a bunch of flowers that had black petals, white dots adorning every one, with a red streak in the center, "Those are Hundred-eye Root flowers, you need the roots that are snipped after picking to make the powder, they are known by another name, Beholder lily's is the more common name, Hundred-eye is only a Vamp name for them, and as for Fairy teeth, you can get them at any black market stall that deals in SN body parts, take some of the contract money you would pay me at the end of this job and use it to get them as soon as possible, because if you don't you are in for a headache of a time when people come snooping" Shaun said with a serious expression.
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Meanwhile Tyler, the alpha of the Moon Lake pack is in a meeting with the heads of each department, instrumental to running his pack, a look of frustration and impatience plastered all over his face at the cacophony of murmers and arguement on what they heard and how to deal with it, members throwing insults across the room about their ideas of sending the whole pack to search for the culprit, while others are still not believing what they heard was a Lycan but just a powerful subspecies of an unknown shifter that they are mistakingly assuming is a Lycans howl, while others are just in despair that one is so close to their territory and discussing about what if it comes to look for their pack to either destroy or take over their land, the sound in the room was almost deafening, giving Tyler a headache, looking over his shoulder at Kyle, his other beta, Kyle nods at him and releases a long, loud howl to drown out the noise and get everyone's attention.
Everyone's eyes land on their second beta and alpha sat behind his desk before quietly moving around the room so that it was in a more orderly manner rather than people just being randomly strewn about, Tyler stands up from behind his desk and places his hands on it while looking at every single one of the heads, one by one, with the fire of determination and passion, once he had everyone's attention he made a declaration "Pack members, what you heard on the winds was not a subspecies, it was not a rogue, it was not someone looking for a pack, what you heard was the sound of something we haven't encountered in many a moon, thought to be near extinct, and I say to you members of the Moon Lake, we will deal with this threat the same way we deal with any threat, we will hunt them down and wipe them off the face of the planet, we will be hunting one of the most dangerous creature to walk this world, WE WILL BE HUNTING A LYCAN!!!".