"That was everything, unless you want to discuss you giving up your foolishness and returning to me," Anders says.
"You so know how to charm a woman back into your arms." She responds drily.
Quieter, she adds, "I miss you. Stay safe anta."
"I don't know," she says, falling into a brittle laugh.
"Maybe you should take the rest of the night off."
One of them notices Echo. "Ma'am, it's past visiting hours. If you could make your way out."
She quickly looks up to see if there is a dropped ceiling they could climb into if needed, and then starts her investigation.
Alex watches Rook for a moment, then asks, "Should I go to confront the distraction while you work here?"
Alex, dressed in his scrubs, with an ID hanging from his neck that looks just fine as long as no one inspects it too closely, passes a mildly confused-looking Echo in the hallway as he's hunting around.
Alex pauses to give Echo a quick check-in.
"The ICU is clear. Rook and Val are investigating from there. I'm going to check out the music. What did you find?"
Echo, who is shaking her head at the very nice woman, snaps her attention to Alex as he passes. With a gleam, she grabs Alex's arm and looks around finally pointing out one or the people nearby. "Shan."
Then she points down one of the halls, "Hector."
She nods, "Puppet."
Alex frowns briefly, but nods.
"That was my guess, but then where--?"
"Moving." Echo says, snarl in her voice.
A pause, head cocking to the side, "Door."
"Here."
A whine in her voice, as she looks the direction Alex came from. "Escape?"
"I didn't see anyone ... but I wouldn't, would I?"
Alex pauses for a moment and his brow furrows.
"If you can track, I'll go with you."
Rook turns to Val. "Would you see if you can wake up and see if they'll talk to you - find out if they've been bitten already."
Echo's grin is all white teeth, "Hunt." As she stalks off leading Alex to an emergency exit.
That may or may not still have an alarm going.
The soft buzzing at the emergency exit has in fact ceased by the time Echo and Alex arrive.
Alex follows Echo, hoping to spot something before she does ... but not really expecting to.
Unless redirected, Echo heads out through the emergency exit, a happy grumble calling Cailleach from where the wolf lurks outside the door. Echo starts to cast around looking for signs of someone who left recently - so much harder in the paved world than the proper dirt one.
Alex looks around outside. He looks up. He looks off in the distance. "What can I do to help here?" he asks Echo.
At Alex's question, Echo nods. "Look."
"Follow."
All teeth, "Catch."
"Talk?"
Echo casts around moving around the hospital, looking for someone. Or signs of someone walking away from the building.
From what Echo can parse Cailleach is trying to communicate that whatever scents here are absolutely overpowering. Hospital stink is powerful and it's everywhere in this general area. Finding the scent at another location might be easier.
"Path?" Is the only explanation she offers Alex.
Echo can't find a trail, though the hair on the back of her neck stands at attention. Something is watching, though whenever she turns to find the source of the sensation, she sees nothing but wind brushing through the trees.
"Moffatt?" Wonder if that's relevant." She says to Val after checking the card that came with the flowers at the cancer patient's bedside.
She sends a quick text to everyone.
From Susan:
Hey Klaus got picked up for vagrancy. Can you get down there and make sure the pigs don't throw out his tent?
She shakes her head, a whine as she tries to think. Another failure.
"Knows."
If at any point her phone makes noise, she ignores it, except to stuff the noisy annoyance into a more padded pockets to stifle the disruption.
As Alex is watching his phone, he says, "Ugh," and starts tapping on the screen.
"Do you think they're still around?" he asks Echo, not too loudly. "People problems back in Santa Cruz."
I'm out at Dominican Hospital up in Live Oak. Klaus tent at the usual spot?
Then she looks to see if there's any drops of blood, or anything else that might be in the hallway that someone could have dropped on their way out. Lastly, if there's time, she goes to see if other people have flowers from the same florist (and if they do, what their cards say). If at any point she hears people coming, she will let Val know that they should leave.
If Val leaves, Rook will check in with her before she goes, to see if she heard something or has any ideas.
The whine is beneath the hearing of the living, only a thrum on the sense. "Fubar." She motions to the phone, "Fix?"
He looks back up at Echo and also over at Cailleach.
"But if you're going to get jumped the minute I turn my back, that's no good."
Alex tucks his phone away and cracks his knuckles.
She waves at the dark around, points to herself. Holds up her two pointer fingers and brings them together, "Talk."
She shrugs, a small smile playing on her lips.
Alex cocks his head to one side for a moment, doing a decent Cailleach impression, even if inadvertent.
"Musician got rumbled by the cops. Someone needs to grab his stuff before it gets trampled or stolen."
"Didgeridoos are more fragile than you expect."
Alex pulls his phone out and pokes at it again.
ducking
DUCKING
duck it
Hospital? you ok?
There is a chair. Convenient enough. Nothing of note is in the false ceiling, though the intense ugliness of it makes it difficult to concentrate on anything inside.
The nurses start making their rounds soon after. Rook does see a few arrangements, but doesn't get close enough to determine where they're from before being asked to leave.
She nods again, "Fix."
She puts a paw on her chest, "Watch." She motions to the sick place building.
She motions to the grounds around, with a shrug and whine, "Sera."
Rook checks her phone for a reply as she leaves the hospital. She goes toward where they parked the cars, unless she sees any of the group before then, at which point she'll aproach them.
Echo pats her pockets, pulling out one, two, three rings of keys, offering them to Alex.