Caleb lost....and where in the world are those stupid sheets?? O.o or Twinstincts (A Redwall Log)

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This happens sometime (I'm not really sure how long) after this log http://rwmuck.limitless.org/rwmuck/content/and-why-you-pay-attention-thi... Lily has every reason to be worried.......

RW Abbey: Wine Cellar


The wine cellar is cool, dry, and dimly lit. It is a very large, low room, extending far back into the Abbey's underworks. The vast space is almost entirely taken up by rack upon rack of wine bottles and ale casks, barrels of all sizes, and shelves of flagons and stoneware flasks. For all the space available, the drink here only fills a small part of it, and most of the barrels still stand empty. There have been obvious work efforts occuring here recently, and the cellar is, if emptier than seasons past, cleaner than it has been in a long while. The further corners of the cellar are hidden in shadow, and consist of many nooks and crannies.


Exits: [Up] to the Kitchens

Emyuil the mouse. LilyMoore the mouse. Oz the badger.

Oz was planning on staying in his room as the last couple days or so has been rather stressful and Sister Jenny made them more so this morning as he is now looking for a couple missing young beasts, and from past issues it could be a good idea to check down here. He can't see that's true but he can hear and he has his sense of smell... "Caleb...Cynthia are you two down here, I want an answer"

Emyuil happens to be skulking in the cellars; it's not as crowded down there as it is throughout the rest of the Abbey, and it's too cold to go outside. Or hunting. He's chilling in the shadows, a warm cloak wrapped around himself.

"Caleb?" A faint and feminine voice can be heard, calling out one name. And getting closer. "Caleb? Has anybody seen my brother?" Lily peeks down the cellar stairwell at the badger. "Is Caleb down there with you? I can't find him."

Oz tilts his head as he answers, "Caleb is not here..." He says quietly and shakes his head, "I am dealing with two missing dibbuns, Sister Milly is complaining of missing sheets...and...well other issues rather not talk of"

Emyuil snorts quietly when he hears Oz, as he leans against the side of a barrel. "Heh, it'll be quite a while before you can find 'em."

"Uncle Emmy! Please be kind." Glaring at him, Lily comes down a couple of steps. "Perhaps instead of making derisive comments, you could help find Caleb. I haven't seen him, and I'm worried." Her twin instincts might also be playing a part in her worry.

Oz frowns as Emyuil speaks "Do you know something I do not? If you do please let us know as both been missing since dinner last night"

Emyuil shrugs. "I don't know anything. I'm just saying that if Caleb doesn't want to be found, he won't be found, is all." He smiles fondly to Lily. "I'll help ye look, then." He glances around the cellar. "Can't see a bloody thing...anybeast got a lantern?"

LilyMoore bites her lip. "Um, I forgot. Lemme go get a couple." she dashes back up the stairs and can be heard asking for 2 lanterns.

Oz tilts his head and shrugs after a while " Its dark all over for me and it's about 14 steps, well for me..to the steps and about 16 steps up to the kitchens"

Emyuil nods. "Right then." He goes quiet, just relaxing in the dark. He casts an eye over the nearest barrels. "Wonder what's in this one?" he asks idly.

LilyMoore comes back carrying 2 lanterns. "Here, Nuncle Emmy." She moves around the badger, rests the lantern on a barrel close to her uncle, then starts searching around. "Caleb?" she calls, sounding very worried. "He.....would answer, right? If....if he was okay. Right? An'....an' I don't think he'd steal any sheets....that's something I would do," she adds with a very hollow-sounding, fake laugh.

Oz nods as he listens, "Then...what would happen to the sheets and he would of been home last night. Has Angela seen him?" He does sound worried.

Emyuil shrugs. "Haven't seen him since breakfast a few days ago," he mutters while he takes up the lantern and begins his search, a few rows in the opposite direction from Lily.

Oz says, "I think it's only been since yesterday afternoon he as well as Cynthia went missing. This can't be good...." He frowns at a thought, "I wonder if they are somewhere together, I know Cynthia said something about some rat and how she needed to leave, maybe...well no why would they of taken sheets."

Emyuil calls to Lily from a few rows away. "Don't panic. Take a deep breath and relax. We'll find him." He glares at Oz in the dark, muttering for him to be quiet because he's not helping Lily calm down.

LilyMoore starts to cry. "I can't calm down. I.....I can just feel like something bad must be happening to him, but I don't know what or how bad or anything. He's my twin; I have the *hic* right to be worried......" She slumps in between 2 barrels and just cries, her lantern on the floor beside her.

Oz goes over to Lilymoore to go give her a hug if she allows it, if she does he will also pick her up but either way he speaks quietly "He will be found, I am sure he will be ok...Emyuil can go out and find him while you stay inside the abbey, that's if he is outside the abbey, I am unsure. Maybe the two young ones went for a walk and lost track of time" Least that's what he hopes anyways.

Emyuil walks up to Lily and sets down the lantern, saying quietly, "I never said you don't. If you want, I can start looking now."

LilyMoore kind of gets picked up and hugged before she realizes what's going on, so she sort of can't help but allow the badger to do so. "M.....m....maybe th.....they're......ou.....out in....in the......gardens? Or....or somethin'......"

Oz answers "I am unsure, I...did have the past couple days off as..." Well he won't go into detail "Didn't feel well" That seems to work, in a way he didn't feel that well.

Emyuil leans on a barrel, waiting for Lily to speak to him. She can take her time. It can wait until she calms down.

LilyMoore wipes her eyes and sniffs. "Could you, Uncle Emmy? Maybe....he's prob'ly just.......he's probably still in the Abbey, right?" She sounds desperate.

Oz tilts his head" It would be a good idea to look around, I mean the guards wouldn't let them out of the gates, and there is not any other way out of the abbey but the gates."

Emyuil nods. "Most likely he's just in a corner somewhere," he says with more confidence than he feels. "I'll go find him." He leans down, offering his niece a kiss on the top of the head, and says, "First we should finish searching the rest of the cellar."

LilyMoore gets a kiss on the top of her head. Nodding, she sniffles a little more and wriggles for the badger to put her down. "O....okay...."

Oz sits her down as he does get a little closer to Emyuil "If you don't find him inside, maybe get some others to look about outside just in case there is trouble." This whispered and he steps back and nods "Yes, he may still be inside being very quiet, maybe a sleep somewhere and didn't hear either of us"

Emyuil murmurs, "Very well," to Oz, and continues searching around the barrels quietly, casting a furtive glance to Lily ever so often.

RW Abbey: East Walltop


The eastern wall is shaded by an endless canopy of trees. Limbs and branches jut in all directions from the massive trunks of elm and beech. A thick cover of leaves shrouds the wall from the morning sun. Mossflower Woods continues far into the distance, the otherwise uniform blanket of foliage broken here and there by a particularly gnarled tangle of limbs or a weather-worn tree.

[Winter has arrived, and it's, like, really super duper cold O.o]

Exits: [D]own, [S]outh, [N]orth

A few hours later, and Caleb cannot be found. So Lily decides that braving the cold of outside is not only the next step, but vital for helping her brother. She is now on the walltop, and has just turned the corner from the Northern one to the Eastern one. "Caleb?" she calls, but he wind whips most of her words away. The sky is darkening with clouds, and it looks like it might snow or something soon. Or it might not. The weather is sort of unpredictable right now.

Oz is helping best he can, "Anything found, anything at all?"

Emyuil gazes around, yelling to be heard over the wind. "You should go back inside, I'll keep searching!" He's concerned for Lily's safety in this bitter cold.

Oz grumbles about his knee when he feels a tap and its Sister Jenny and of course she is grumpy, I mean dealing with dibbuns without him past couple days "You ARE not taking a 3rd day off..." The badger sighs "We can discuss...." He gets a pull of the paw, as he says "I need to get on the wall tops..." The hedgehog is like "No you don't..." She walks off and he sighs and then is tackled by around 30 dibbuns all giggling and happy to see him, he sighs and after getting up he lets them lead him inside, he trusts Lillymoore to stay by her Uncle.

LilyMoore is wrapped up in a nice, thick cloak, and she pulls it around her, ignoring her uncle's advice. She walks along....until she comes to the rampart with the sheets tied around it. Gasping, she peeks over the wall and sees the others laying on the forest floor. "NUNCLE EMMY!!!!!!!"

Emyuil swears quietly, gazing out at the woods and the oncoming storm after he sprints to Lily's side. "Go. Get some guards and bring them back here. Hurry," is all he says. Winter is here. The storm is unforgiving of beasts young or old, strong or weak. He shivers. Caleb needs all the luck he can get.

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