After leaving Max's office Lily headed straight to Wade's not wanting to be alone in this place. A feeling of restlessness kept bothering her and she just couldn't shake it. Knocking on Wade's door, out of habit, then remembered she could just walk in now so pushing open the door he's at his desk with a mountain of paperwork trying to help Max. Poor guy he is worked to death. Max better give him a raise and a long vacation after he ascends the throne, Lily thought walking up to his desk as he looks up.
"My Luna, I did not realize it was you knocking i should have been paying better attention. Is there something I can help you with?" he asks politely. "Yes, Max is in conference with his father and I was hoping to check on my plants in my Lab. Would you accompany me there, please? I know your busy. I'll make sure Max gets you and assistant because that mountain of paperwork would take three people to get thought in a week," Lily said looking through one of the folders.
"Yes, well when you left to be on your own the work load had to go somewhere, and Max only trust so many people as you well know," he said trying to sound so accusing. Reading the folder she could tell that some of them were reports and some were proposals she organized and handled before moving out on her own. Looking through another one it happen to be a proposal she had written for Max to look at, but it seems to have gotten lost in the pile. Pulling it out then setting it on his desk saying, "Make sure this gets done before Max's ascension, it will be good for Max's image as a good and fair ruler. Shall we go?"
He nodded getting up from his desk and walking out with Lily towards her Lab in the back of the Palace. Most never even ventured to the back of the Palace as it was mainly used for storage and locked rooms she couldn't open. Moving to the back wing that had large windows making up a glass-room to which Lily used it for her rare and medicinal plants. Her nose had always been sensitive, but she found it to be was more relaxing and calm with all her exotic and rare plants.
After a while she wanted to know why the smells calmed her and find out some of the flowers are highly aggressive towards werewolves. Some that were as dangerous as wolfsbain or belladonna didn't have any effect on her. As Lily walked in Wade stayed at the door looking around nervously saying, "I think I'll just watch you from here." Smiling back at him nodding she moved about the room checking the health of each plant, tucking a couple leaves here and there to dry for later use.
Kneeling down to a root-based plant called mana she began cutting a root when she heard a loud thump and something like a body hitting the floor turning to see Wade knocked out on the floor. Looking around for the intruder as she tucked the root in her pocket, she used her psychic sense to feel for the intruder.
Taking a deep breath the only scent she could pick up on was wet skin and nothing else. It was strange the whole scent wasn't there like it was being masked or blocked meaning a spell or talisman. Moving to the back door staying in the bushes trying not to be caught, the smell of wet skin was getting closer. She stopped trying to calm her heart rate down, but a hand shot out grabbing her. Lily kicked it away rolling to the side knocking a plant and some equipment over trying to evade the invisible intruder. Skidding to a halt then coming to her feet she faced her opponent.
"Who ever you are this will not end how you think it will, " Lily said taking a low defensive stance close to the wall and the door. "No sweetheart you don't know how this will end and it will be what we want," a raspy old pirate voice said from behind just as she was knocked out.
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"Come on lads. We got a job to do aint we?" The Pirate Captain said watching as his crew picks up the she-wolf and looms over the other. "Bring'em too. Don't want to be named, now do we?" A chorus of agreement came from his men as they tied and gagged the prisoners. "Time to drop these pups off to the highest bidder," he says walking through a portal with his crew to collect the bounty. Its a pirates life for me.