(Late at night the day Jadain's kidnapped )
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Darkness had fallen over the Warren. The moonless night, making it 
hard to see things moving around quietly in the shadows. Things that
shouldn't have been there lurking, watching.

They'd been inside the Warrenlady's office for sometime. No one else 
was around so now was the time to get the job they'd been sent here 
to do over and finished. Three men dressed in black advanced slowly 
towards the outside entrance to the Warren offices and let themselves 
in one at a time. The last man keeping an eye on their back trail. The other
two crept down the hallway until they'd come to the door they 
were told her office would be.

The door was slightly ajar, and voices could be heard coming from 
within as they stood outside. When the male who was sitting on the 
far side of the desk stood and offered his hand to the woman sitting 
behind it, they heard him call her "Warrenlady" as he thanked her for giving
him a list of some kind, they knew they had found the person 
they had come here looking for.

Jayleigh. The Warrenlady of Daere and the woman Da'ntray hated above 
all else. Soon enough they would be taken her back to him for whatever 
he had planed for her.

Rather then stand the chance of having the man catch them in the hall before
they could retreat, the first man lifted the long wooden reed 
in his hand and made a motion to his partner and then at the man 
inside the room. The second man nodded his head in agreement and moved 
into position. Seconds later both men raised the wooden reeds to their
mouths and blew deeply into one end causing  tiny darts to sail across 
the room. 

One landed just over the woman's right breast, the other struck the 
back of the mans left shoulder. Both had time to wonder about the sharp
sting before the drug in the tips began to take effect. the woman went under
almost at once. The man however seem to be fighting the effects 
of the drug. His body turned towards them and a knife appeared in his 
hand as he started towards the door.

A second dart went sailing towards him and though he saw it coming, 
there was nothing he could do to stop it from embedding itself in the 
mans lower rib cage, as his reactions had been sufficiently slowed by 
the first dosage.

Within seconds he too had fallen. 

The two dressed in black slipped quickly into the room, the first 
man went to the woman and picked her up from where she sat behind 
the desk. The second man pulled the fallen man over his shoulder 
and the two made their way to where their friend was waiting by 
the outer door.

"Why take him?" the watcher whispered. 

"Because if they come looking for her and find him sprawled out on 
her floor they'll know something's wrong," the leader of the three whispered
back. "We need as much time as we can to get her back to 
the dragons before the alarm is sounded."

Not a sound did they make as they retraced their steps through the 
woods until they came to the spot where their dragons had stayed 
hidden from the low flying search dragons in the air above. Soon 
there would  be a break in the formation above and that was when 
they planned on lifting and trying to achieve enough hight to 
teleport away.

If all went well they would be out of the area before they could 
be spotted and safe on their way back to their cave with the 
Warrenlady of Daere as their prisoner....

(Ja'ks)
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Coming back to the Warren without finding his nephew was one of 
the hardest thing the Beta Wingleader had ever had to face. He 
had failed both the boy and his sister the Warrenlady. It was a 
failure that he would never be able to get over if any harm came 
to the boy.

Jadain met the world to him. He couldn't have loved the little 
guy anymore than if he had been his own son. And in many ways the 
boy was. It had been him after all who had done all the things with 
the boy that a father would normally do with a son. He Ja'ks!! Had 
done this for the boy. 

Not that son of a bitch who begot him. Never him!!

He knew he would have to tell his sister of his failure before to 
long but he couldn't face her just yet. Couldn't face any of the 
family so he had Sprarroe try to contact Krith to find out where 
her rider was, only to be put off when the brown reported that the 
Queen was sleeping. 

At a time like this?

<She has been busy you know,> Sprarroe reminded him. <And besides 
there is nothing she can really do. We won't let her join in on the search!!>

<<No!!>> Ja'ks agreed quickly. 

<Troy said that Krith's rider was sent to the her riders office to 
take care of anything that might come up. Troy's rider is in no 
shape to do so herself right now with our hatchling missing.> the 
brown said a second later and that's where his rider started for. 

When Ja'ks got there he knocked briefly on  the door and then a 
second time where he got no response. When that too wasn't answered, 
he opened the door to find the room empty. Puzzled he asked his 
dragon if he was sure that Krith's rider was suppost to be here.

<That's what Troy said,> his friend replied. <Maybe something came 
up and she had to deal with it. Are we going to go back out now and 
search some more for our hatchling?>

<<Sure buddy,>> Ja'ks sighed, anything that would keep him from 
having to see the look in his sisters eyes when he told her that 
they had been unable to find the boy. <<Let's go.>>

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Someone is going to in for a surprise when they find out they have 
the *wrong* Warrenlady :).....

(Tag Mike and Amy :)

******Submitted by: ************

Barbara (a.k.a.
Warrenlady Jayleigh of Daere Warren
 & her Queen, Viktroy
Beta Wingleader Ja'ks & Sprarroe.
 & the three bad guys....