Piece by Peace

Ava sighed. "It's not a surprise, that poor girl really went through it so she can take all the time she needs."

Devin had to agree with that, but wondered what they could do for them emotionally besides made a professional shrink or something. He turned to them. "Seems that way. You're welcome to try if you think it might help at this point."

Chelsea comes wandering in, holding a yellow manila envelope "I have it!" she says, sounding excited "It took calling in every favor I'm owed and I even made a few enemies, but I have the information we've been looking for." she says as she heads over to Devin "I found our guy."

Inside were pictures, taken in secret, of a young man. He looked unhappy about being there. He was often shown wearing handcuffs and a belly chain with two armed guards escorting him everywhere.

Devin looked at the picture closely; it was definitely the same person they were looking for on behalf of the young Jinn they had ran into earlier. "Good job, this is pretty big. Now that we have this we get them out of being a prisoner."

"Yes, though we need to decide how we're going to proceed." Ava pointed out. "I don't think we should straight up storming the place is the right call for obvious reasons. Further we need to ensure the group that took them, or another rival group gets ideas of just taking them back when the dust settles. Longer term then a quick fix is the key."

"I say..." Chelsea starts as she flips her hair over her shoulder "That we give this information to the Hunters and let Them deal with this situation." she says "I know the kid doesn't like them and .either do I, but we simply don't have the manpower of force to take care of a situation like this."

Han raises a brow "Are you sure? Because I think we do have the personal and firepower to take that compound." he says.

Chelsea looks.over at him "Oh please. You're just a failed Yakuza enforcer who's hanging around here because you have nothing better to do." she says.

Han nods "Well yes, but don't forget that you have an Hidden Mist shinobi here as well as an Umbra Witch. She's your powerhouse and could Easily take that entire compound if she felt like it." he points out.

"We could, if she wants to." Devin partly agreed. "I am kinda in Chelsea's camp, though at the same time if we can do something and it doesn't make things worse or have unintended blow back we should do it."

He didn't comment about Han, he knew what he actually was at this point and if he wanted to keep it from others, then he'd leave it be.

Han nods "Alright. I'll take this information to the Hunters and see that they act upon it." he says.

"I'll go with you." Kyoko says, who was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly a plant by the door 'POFFS! and Kyoko was there "It's better that two of us go there than just one."

Devin was surprised but at the same time not that Kyoko was apparently there the whole time. "You were there the whole time and I didn't even notice. Let us know how it goes when you two come back."

Kyoko took that as a compliment and the two of them headed out "They had better tell the Hunters that it was me and my connection of contacts that got this information." Chelsea grumbles as she folds her arms.

Oka opens the storage room door and mousies over to the bathroom, muttering an "excuse me..." as she wanders in.

"I'm sure the two will give credit where credit is due. It should hopefully speed up your service so you'll get to free and out and about in the world." He knew Chelsea didn't enjoy it as much here as much and it was more because she had to.

Oka briefly came in before she moved to the nearby bathroom. Around that time, Ava finally spoke up again. "Well, I know you're off work and will be heading out soon but if Anything big comes up, I'll make sure you know."

"I apperciate it. But after what happened to Tracy, I kinda don't want anything big." Devin mumbled.

Cassia comes wandering on in "Good morning everyone." she says as she sets her backpack down and sits by the water cooler and looks around "Where is everyone?" she asks.

"Hey kiddo." Devin greeted the young one casually. "Everyone else is pretty much in the middle of doing something save for us. Oka is in the background somewhere though. You had school today?"

A thought did occur to him maybe he should introduce Cassia to Larry's adopted daughter one of these days. She was notoriously shy though which was why pretty much no one at the Maiden saw them before besides the fact they were busy.

Cassia shakes her head "No. It's break time." she says "Actually, I wanted to talk to you guys about Tracy..." she says "Since she got back from Tokyo, she's been... off. She stopped hanging out with her friends. She stopped coming here. She even stopped going to school." the little girl explains "And when I ask her about it, she just says everything is fine and that she just needs a break from normal." she says "But she's waking up almost every night soaked in sweat and screaming. It, hurts to see her like that."

Devin grimaced a bit. "Yeah, it does. She's..just going through some things but we're gonna figure something out to help them. We'll get her back to normal, don't you worry."

Ava was a bit ahead of him since she talked to Danny about the curse thing but that was just One aspect of things. She knew obviously they needed to do what they could to help with her mental trauma as well. Asking this Ness fellow if he could do anything mentally for them was a big ask, and even then Tracy would have to agree to it. But either way, they Were going to figure out a way to help them.

Cassia smiles "I know you guys will, because that's what you do, you fix things, right?" she says, grinning at them.

Just then, Danny kicks the door open again, causing the little girl to jump about a foot into the air "WAHH!" she screams.

Danny looks over "Oops. Sorry kiddo. Didn't know yoy were here." he says as he takes off his coat and sits down "Well, I talked to a guy who knows a guy and they'll get me what I'm looking for, but it's gonna be pricy." he informs them.

Devin had no clue why Danny did that sort of thing in the first place but the last part caught his attention. "How pricy?" It wasn't like they were hurting for money.

Danny shrugs "No clue. My seller usually sets the price based on how hard the item was to get and how rare it is as well." he says.

"So, what if the girl Does have a curse on her?" Chelsea asks "Do any of us know how to lift one?"

Devin shook his head. "None of us to my knowledge can, it require outside help again from someone or something. "

"That be one of the first steps, yes." Ava said. "It doesn't do us any good to help put her back together mentally and emotionally only for something else. This is assuming she has one or something else attached to them."

Chelsea flips her hair again (Cassia trying to imitate her) "Then the next logical step would be to find someone who Can lift a curse and if she doesn't have one, you should look for someone who can make the poor girl a good luck charm or something." she points out.

"That's what Danny went out for." Devin glanced back at them, Cassia trying to mimic was adorable but he didn't comment on it. "So price aside, how long is gonna take you to get this item you're looking for?"

Danny shakes his head "No, I just went to.find the guy who could get a curse detecting charm. I didn't go looking for anyone to make luck charms or remove curses." he corrects Devin "But speaking of, I had him put a rush order on finding the charm. That's another reason it's going to be expensive." he points out.

It didn't matter the price if it was something they needed to do to help Tracy out with her problems at the moment. That was just part one of it, then they either needed to remove said curse or maybe get a charm like their local Jinn had said.

"Whenever it comes in after the charm then let us know." Devin was just going have to wait until whenever it was. "That aside I miss anything else while I was out?"

Chelsea nods as she holds out her hours of community service "Yes. You need to sign off on these." she says. As the owner and manager of the Last Maiden, only Devin can sign off on her hours.

Danny shrugs "Nothing much. Just the usual cases. Some of them aren't even paranormal. They're just weird." he says.

"The lady who said her cat was talking to her?" Cassia asks and Danny nods.

Oka pops out of the bathroom "It turns out her cat really Was talking to her." she says "The lady had an unusual telepathic gift to talk to animals. But Only with her cat." she says as she heads out and back to the storage closet, but pauses when she sees Han wasn't around, but heads back in when she sees Devin was.

Ava shrugged. "Nothing on my end boss." It was slow and boring, just the way she liked things after what happened a few weeks ago.

Devin went to sign off the paper work which was always a pain, and during that time Oka briefly stuck her head out before going back in. It really made him wish he had been more alert so he wouldn't have taken her v card in the first place so they wouldn't be awkward and Aki wouldn't still being pissed at him. But life wasn't a video game and there weren't do overs.

"I have to get going, I just wanted to check in. You two hold the fort while I'm gone."

Ava waved lazily as Devin left,  it was quite and balanced as all things should be. "So how much longer before you're finally free from the community service?"

Chelsea shrugs "A few Hundred hours of Unpaid community service left." she grumbles.

"That seems pretty harsh." Cassia says "What did you do to deserve it? You seem like a nice person."

Chelsea nods "I Am a nice person. It's just that, I have a weakness for getting money and it lead me into a bad situation." she tells the little girl, but not giving any details.

Ava didn't add onto it because Cassia didn't know about the whole thing that had happened. "So have you managed to visit Alden's old orphanage yet to make some new friends?" She knew Devin suggested it but he wasn't sure if they had gotten to it or not.