Elgin

  *Uh, no, so there must be some other solution, one he used instinctively. But I think the more immediate question is why did he come now?*

  But Humph was planning on answering that himself, he stood on his back paws and put his front paws on Elgin’s shoulders and glared at the human for a moment before dropping to four paws and turning away. As he did his tail curled around Elgin’s left hand and pulled.

  Elgin stepped forward, and he stumbled forward in darkness and stillness, he could not draw in a breath, he could not blow one out, his head was beginning to spin and then he was in the world again and Humph’s tail had unwrapped from around his hand.

  He found himself in an ugly and oddly cramped but high ceilinged room with dirty windows, several old chairs and a LCD TV mounted on the wall. There was an oddly familiar taint in the air, gunpowder and blood. Then he almost tripped over Zephyr’s body, she was lying on her side, curled up, in a puddle of blood. Her eyes were open, he thought she might be alive at first but then she was none responsive when he touched her. Her skin was still warm to the touch.