#anywhere

"Who!" Cue a few minutes of amused Hooting at each other...

Brogan and artem sigh

Lane and Dow look amused

"Then you should let the Gobly-Wobbly go." He nods, suddenly changing the subject back abruptly.

"No" the Ruslka hisses, "You don't let the guilty go free"

"Oh, everyone knows that." He nods. "Except kids might be stupid and dumb and think it's mean to keep 'em locked up. OR dummies might go to peek in to be looky-loos, and then oopsy-doodle, they done snook out and escapadeded."

He pauses, seeing if they are following, then sighs, and elaborates, "And then they go back to where they came from. I wonder where that would be? Or who? You could follow their snow-prints all the way back to the Goblin King, even though there's a labyrinth in the way to find them otherwise..."

"Hey... you trying to put Spy number 2583 out of a job? the conomee is tough" Harper says

"No, just putting the 'con' back into 'economy'."

"Shadowpaw could use some branch offices on our trees. The bigger the network, the more friends we all have to help out when needed."

Dow raises a brow, one day when he is grown, itt will be impressive , now? It's adorbs "Interesting. Well... what does a Shadowpaw DO?"

"Oh, lots of things! We taste test cookies to make sure they're not poisoned, climb trees to be lookouts, pa-Troll the grounds, even if we're not trolls, because we can see what's on the ground easier then they can WAY up there, and look into important things that Grownups might miss. And most of all, we look out for each other, even the ones who don't HAVE paws."

"And aluminum wrap sassy nations, too."

"That one is new!"

"It's all true" Lane declares

"Well... some of tthat does sound neat " the young Rusalka says

"And... AND.... you get a cool secret patch." He pulls back his cloak to show off the handmade badge with a paw pattern!" "You can even make them in your house colors, it's just the pattern that matters."

"Clan Shadowwing!" Harper says

"Where do I sign up?"

"if she's doing it I'm doing it" Dow decides

"She DOES know all tthe best bridges to jump off of" The Rusalka admits

and just like that, they agree to help. And the Shadow paw/hoof/wings learn the following thanks to NEW members:

1. Spy number 2583 is a shapechanger in Rivervale who does work for the Baron here some

2) 2583 will be shapeshiftin to look like the escaped goblin...

3) The REAL prisonerr will be reported escaped, but won't be

4) The Baron used Chronos on the prisoner (And other stuff) to learn where she was going to go

5) Thane Isla has been grumbling about Tig from Rivervale

6) Harper sprinnkled pop rocks into the Koi fish pool and feels TERRIBLE about it

And Lane is horrofied to find out fishy blood is on Harper's hands

"I guess that makes sense." Connor seems a little nonplussed that they had an idea ALMOST as good as his own and decided to stick with it, but he is good natured and very quickly over it.

"I'll be busy making new badges, anyways!"

He looks awful curious about a Rivervale spy. "They can turn into anyone... that means it could BE anyone... wait, whose idea was it to come here?" Giving Brogan the side-eye.

Brogan gets huffy "i'm a Dairean, we're HONORABLE, and will take terrible revenge on any who suggests otherwise"

Lane pats the sidhe's arm "I know the trolls like caffiene, but maybe you should have less?"

Connor considers, "Meta-morphy... doesn't change how you SMELL." He leans in and SNIFFs at Brogan. "I guess you're in the clear."

"the agent smells TALL" Harper declars

He nods!

Then, he hazards, "Do they smell... blue?"

"More Azure than blue" Harper says after considering it

"She's a ttroll whoever she is.." Dow shrugs

Connor grins! This is a riddle... blue, AND a her... so a troll lady, from Rivervale...

...

"That... doesn't actually narrow it down a lot." He laughs!

"SO many girl trolls" Brogan says

"And tthat's GOOD right? Girls are good?" Lane taps her hoof

"Most of my best friends are girls, or know girls." He nods.
"Actually, all of them have girls for moms, you know."

"Weird how that works" Dow admits "Maybe it's a conspiracy"

Nod nod.

"How can we help, Shadowpals?"

"Oh! I know!"

"You do?" artem asks

"Can someone help me find the island?"

"ISland?" Artem asks

"The... thane island." He nods.