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((OOC: Sorry this took so long to start was trying to think of what to do this one and figure things out. This is the start of the time after the auction))

Ami had won a bet on a guy she knew looked to be interesting and said he wanted to learn things. Hell she wanted to learn things as well and maybe they could share things they knew about this species and what they can do. She had just finished a stealing job and had gotten away with the cops not seeing a thing. She had her phone on and decided to text the man that she had one.

Hey can you meet me in an hour at High Noon Saloon? This is Ami by the way.

Ami closed the phone and walked to the apartment she shared with her husband. Walking in she noticed that Sky was cleaning and rolled her eyes at the man. She then walked to the bedroom and was almost pounced on by the kitten she had in the room. It was a Singapura and was playful. She often played with it in her own animal form which was a Sand Cat. She patted the kitten and then grabbed a new set of jeans and a sweater she knew it was colder here than in the states. She then went and showered real quick in the bathroom that was connected to her bedroom before getting dressed and looking at her phone for a reply.

The message came through a bit later than it probably should have. He had been spending most of his time in the sewers, just resting. The city had never been that entertaining to him and even now that there was seemingly a world of possibilities opened up to him, he found himself struggling to do anything with any of them. While he never would have admitted it, that was part of the reason he had taken Miss d'Artois up on the initial offer to be part of the auction. It was a promise of something to break up the monotony, something he hadn't had since the turn events that led to the attempted blackmail of that same person.

When it finally did come through, the buzz from his pocket brought him back to wakefulness and he fished around til he found the device. He had never been a fan of the little contraptions but they were a necessity in this day and age. That so many people saw fit to replace basic, human, verbal communication with this almost anonymous "texting"...well, it did not sit well with him.

Looking at his time stamp, he saw that the message had been approximately 15 minutes ago so he replied simply Ok and tomed to the spot he considered the closest thing to home. Doc's words in his mind about not wanting to give off the smell of a senile old man, he changed in to a fresh set of clothes that did not reek of the sewer. Adjusting his glasses and brushing his mustache out, he exited the complex and began heading in the general direction of the designated bar.

His preparations having taken almost no time, he arrived with significant time to spare. Disguising himself in the shadows, he slipped in to the building without notice and perched himself on the corner of a booth, keeping an eye out for his purchaser.

She got the text back as she was going out the door. Before leaving she put some vegetable juice in the bottle for her bunny. "Sky remember to keep the animals safe and apart not sure what Cain would do to Bunnicula and Bunnicula does not need to bite anyone keep her in her cage." Sky nodded his head and stood guard at the door which Ami thought of as weird. She walked to the station and caught the train. Getting off a the stop close to the saloon she walked into it and looked around for the man she had bought. This was going to be fun. She knew she could tell him how to Break and enter a place but she also knew that she might be able to learn something from the older man. Her mind was always learning and she was always reading things.

As she made her way in some of the regulars yelled at her to get on the stage and sing. Rolling her eyes she smiled and nodded to them yelling "Okay okay let me change and I will get on stage." She walked to the dressing room and found a blue dress that was tight fighting with a slit in the side. She grabbed the soft gauze like cape with snow flakes embroidered on it. She then slipped her feet into the blue heals and braided her hair off to the side leaving some free. She was going to sing a song from that new Disney movie and wanted to look the part.

She walked back out and stepped up on the stage to sing the song. Striking up the machine she had she started to sing the song.

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation, and it looks like I’m the Queen
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I've tried

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well now they know

Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don’t care
What they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on, the cold never bothered me anyway

It’s funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can’t get to me at all

It’s time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I’m free

Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You’ll never see me cry
Here I stand
And here I stay
Let the storm rage on

My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I’m never going back,
The past is in the past

Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand in the light of day
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway

When she was done she walked off the stage and looked around again for the man she had come to see. She looks over and sees him in the corner. She walked over to him and sat down. "Sorry about that. Seems I can't come in here without getting asked to sing. I do that when I am working but on my days off like today it is. So what can we talk about?"

As he waited, the old man heard some commotion break out and the name of the woman he was supposed to be meeting here being chanted. Startled, he prepared to exit the building calmly but quickly before it became apparent that the raised voices were positive ones rather than the angry type that he expected were more commonly used in an environment such as this.

With the crowd moving around her as it was, he quickly lost track of her. He was growing minorly annoyed. She had been the one to choose the appointed place and time of this get together and for him to be left waiting as he was, was simply unacceptable. Taking his glasses off and rubbing his eyes, his attention was piqued again as the crowd quietened and he turned to the stage, finding his temporary owner.

She proceeded to sing some cutesy song that he was unfamiliar with that, while well received by the audience, he suspected would have been more appropriate on a Broadway stage. His guess was that her outfit was the cause of the majority of the clapping and support. As she finished up and circled towards him, he nodded respectfully, not wanting to upset the woman that, for better or worse, controlled him for a designated period of time.

"Not a problem at all," he replied with a kind smile. "I'm sure you have brightened their day." He shrugged casually at her question, "I'm not sure. You are the boss I suppose so it's up to you."

She smiled at him and nodded softly "Probably but I don't mind. Well I though we could learn things from each other. I do not know if you know how to B & E places because that is what I do best. I would love to teach you if you have the time just not today. But I heard that you were a person that loved to gain knowledge. I would also like to know more about what I can and can't do as well as study up on different things even if I never do them." She sat there and watched the man before her as one of the waiters brought her over a water. She sipped the water and waited to hear what he had to say.

He was mildly disappointed to learn that she seemed to be as lacking in knowledge about their mutual existence as he was but that was no matter. What was done was done and he would find some way to spin this so that he could gain some benefit from it.

"I must admit I am at least mildly acquainted with the process of, let us say, 'retrieving' items from buildings myself though I am always willing to be informed of more effective ways to go about doing it."

Slipping his notebook from his pocket, he opened it to a page seemingly at random and looked over it. "On the rest, I'm afraid I know very little of the general capabilities of the population or individuals. That is something I'm still attempting to grasp myself. In fact," he smiled and turned to an empty page, "if you could tell me some of your self and what you can do, it would be most helpful."