#goldfinchfreehold

Piper gives Siv a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for the ride - you coming in, sugarcat?"

"You go ahead. " She smiles "I'll catch up if need be"

A grin, and Piper scoots out of the car and trots into Goldfinch at a good clip. Looking to catch the first person she sees, "Hey! Seen Sylvi around?"

"By the fire" Someone tells her

A nod and she turns, heading down another hallway, then the stairs...

Down in the freehold proper, Sylvi is pacing while Dirk naps, one arm cudding some shape that is covered loosely by a rumpled paper bag.

ZZZ goes Dirk

"Sylvi! Hey! My phone was off. Date night, you know? And when you're dating a Fiona, date night goes long..." She looks around.

"Studio is intact, you're okay, fire looks good.. what's the emergency?"

Piper does look like she rushed over, hair still a bit of a muss. She even forgot her SCARF. And it's COLD out!

"Piper! Oh, thank goodness." Sylvi makes a bee-line towards her and takes her by the arm to move her further away from the napping redcap. "We've got trouble. Your dreamer was attacked. Dirk saved her...." But there seems to be more she's not quite saying.

"My what?" She seems baffled.

"Attacked? Dirk?!"

Squeaking a bit.

Sylvi shushes her and tries again. "Your dreamer...Karen...was attacked. Dirk got the attacker. Karen's being checked on by...um...." A frown and she snaps her fingers forgetfully.

"But I don't have... oh, Linwood. Hey! Linwood! Where is he? Is he Okay?"

"Linwood? I haven't seen him. But listen...there's more. And it's bad."

"You haven't seen him?! But.. who attacked her? Who would attack a random middle-aged lady? Was she mugged? How did Dirk get involved? Was it another kithain-" She stops, suddenly pale and whispers. "Was she ravaged?!"

"I don't know for sure how she is. But she wasn't ravaged...she was bitten." A gulp. "It was a prodigal. A...uh...vampire."

"A WHAT?!"

"Why would a vampire just happen to be going after a random dreamer?! You know what they say, they see us as magical juice boxes! Linwood? LINWOOD?" She bellows up the stairs. "Are you sure he wasn't there?! Dirk- Dirk! Wake up!" She actually reaches over as though to shake him-

"Gah! Piper, wait, don't..."

She stops, then takes a step back quickly.

"You could lose a hand that way!"

"Is that where your potted hand came from?!"

"Vampire? WHERE!" Dirk holds up the severed head "Wait, though someone took it"

He blinks

the severed head stares at the satyress

"Oh, crap," Sylvi mutters.

"Dirk, where's Linwood?! Did you leave him behind?"

She hasn't quite seen what Dirk is... oh

and her eyes roll back.... thump

"Fuckin awesome" Dirk's face lights up

Sylvi tries to catch her before she hits the floor!

Piper seems to be fine, just - fainted!

"She saw this and FAINTED? I'm carrying a severed head with me from now on!"

"Gross, Dirk. You're not keeping that here, and you're NOT going to put it anywhere that AnneMarie can get terrified by it." She helps Piper to sit down.

"Geez, you're STILL Bossy after all these years" He grumbles but he does rewrap the head

Already stirring, she mumbles, "I had the weirdest frickin' dream, babe..."

"Not Babe. Sylvi. Not dream. Well, no more than usual, anyway."

"Linwood wasn't there" Dirk says "So you know"

"Don't do Sylvi, that would be weird..." Then she blinks, and shakes her head.

"Uh, Right. No. Wait. A sec. Okay." Coming back to her senses, and she whispers to Sylvi. "Tell me there wasn't a HEAD."

"I wish I could. Dirk saved the day. He also saved a trophy. it's wrapped up again."

"Linwood wasn't there." She repeats, and simmers down a bit. "Okay. Okay. Why was a vampire trying to eat Karen?!"

"Children of Lilith need blood ... why her? I donn' knnow, I was hunting THALLIAN and checking on Dreamers"

"Might have been random, hard to say."

"You were checking on her? Uh. Thanks. I should let Linwood know, though. She's his dreamer, really. I just helped him with the mechanics, right?"

"Wait...wait...there's no way that the thallain and the prodigals are teaming up." She says it like she knows it's a crazy suggestion.

"Oh, shit. The Thallain and prodigals teaming up?! Well why not? They're both baddies aren't they? "

A puzzled look at Piper. "It's always looked like you're both musing her, to me."

"Doesn't Dagmar know werewolves? We should call in some on our side if that's how they play. It's only FAIR..."

"Look.. I get I'm not the brightest bulb... but Dagmar didn't give me a job so I tried to think of what you goody goodies think is important... Dreamers and shit. I leave the thinnking to you guys"