Earlier that night ? Teas and Tomes, Rhydin Marketplace.

Raena was looking at that strange globe with a touch of sadness. Fingers drifting across one of the clearer images. Memories of home, of good times? of family.

Making her way into the tea shop, Lucretia looked around, before slowly approaching her mother. In her arms was a wrapped package; something tasty was making a yummy kind of smell.

Raena turned at the sound of the bell, dispelling the image in the globe. A smile curved upon her lips seeing her daughter. "Lucretia, darling."

"Hello Mother. I brought you a snack." She smiled back to her and then flopped down in the chair beside her mother. The package was offered out to her.

Raena took the package and settled into a chair herself. "Oh?" She unwrapped the package. Chicken on a stick and some spring rolls waited for her mother.

Lucretia gave her another smile. "I know that I've not exactly been the best kid in the world..."

Raena shook her head and took a bite of one of the spring rolls. Been a long time since she broke her fast. "This place has been trying on all of us."

There was a nod and a frown to that," I know. Hardest on you, cause you've been doing this on your own."

"I have your grandfather for support. It is difficult though, trying to be both for everyone and trying to hold things together."

"Remember all those stories about love that you told me about?" Luc asked, because she was doing her best to make her mother smile.

"Yes, darling. I do remember." There was a smile at that.

"It's unconditional, and you've showed that, even when we've been a pain." Lucretia gave her a gentle smile," You've been a good Mother and I never say thank you to that."

"I do it because I do love you... all of you. I do not do this for thanks." She smiled softly to Lucretia.

"You still like hearing it, I know that." She leaned in and took a bit of chicken. "I'm sure if Dad was here, he'd be really proud of you for what you've been doing for the family."

"I can only hope..." Raena took another piece of the food.

At that moment, a figure passes by the window and pauses in trepidation. Every ounce of him urges him forwards, but in his confusion he takes half a step back. However, in the distance he is seen once again, searching openly for something he cannot find.

Lucretia noms on the piece of chicken silently then squints towards the window. "M... M.... Moooooommmm."

Raena tilts her head, "Yes, dear?" She looked to the window and pauses. "Is that?"

"DAD!" Lucretia's already springing up and rushing to the door.

In the glow of lamp light, his face turns heavenward with a sense of foreboding. Cautious, anxious, he moves further from the tea shop and out of sight of either window or door.

Raena was on her daughter's heels, "Octavius!"

"Daaaad!" Lucretia is practically screaming with joy.

The strangled cry comes next along with wing beats. "Raena?! Lucretia?! Raena, Luc-- RUUUN!" Another cry echoes in the night. The only thing left behind that shows any sign of him is a mere piece of fabric and his family ring.

"Octavius?! NO!" She was running in that direction now. "Hades take you... " She was cursing whatever that thing was.

"Dad?! DAD!" Somehow her mother got before her. Eyes darted and searched the heavens as Lucretia took in a deep breath. Biting her lip she spoke," I... I thought I heard wing beats... I don't get it... He was right there!!"

Raena knelt down to pick up the cloth and the ring. "He was here... He's in danger, darling."

Lucretia?s fists clenched as she watched her mother take hold of her father's possessions. "We'll get him back... We have to."

"Yes, we have to. Find your siblings, Lucretia. We've got no time to lose. I'll find your grandfather." Raena ordered as she stood.

"Yes mother. I'll find the others." Lucretia was already taking off towards the Inn's direction. She paused to hug her mother then took off at the best speed she could possibly make.

Raena nodded and headed for there lodging. She had that stoic mask in place, when all see wanted to do was weep.

Standing there in his night clothes, Arthurius hardly seems surprised by Maximus? and Lucretia's entrance. "Least your mother knew to knock..." he says then looks back to the map and marks several "high" locales heading away from the point of abduction.

"Any sign of the others?" Raena looked at her two children.

That was so not a sight Maximus ever needed to see. Grandfather in his night clothes, as he looked down. Suppressing that image! "Not since this morning, Mother."

"At this point, no one is to leave this place alone. Given what just transpired, there is no way I am risking any of you." She was firm on this.

Maximus was looking to their mother now on that, before nodding softly.

"Ellenia is staying overnight with her friend at the Apothecary, Aquill is off with Tiberius doing Jupiter knows what..." he says to Isura with a frown as she continues to move outward on the map, marking high locations.

There was a frown to that," Mother there are others around the city offering to help us search for Dad." Lucretia offered.

Maximus gave a side-glance to Luc at her mentioning that. "They are friends of mine." Looking to their mother and grandfather. "They offered to help when Luc told me."

"See that those meats are properly preserved." Removing his glove, Larcius watched the two hands move past him to take care of the already cleaned meats that had been dragged home from his recent hunt. Tucking the gloves in his belt his boots echoed in the hall as he headed for most likely his room to clean up. Adding to the boars and deer that he and Qui had brought home during the weekend they should be set for a week or two in the meat department.

A servant came up to Larcius, "Master Larcius, your mother requested to see you in the Den."

Raena nodded to her father and then Lucretia, "Until we can get word out." She looked at her daughter seriously, "You saw what happened. You know why I say this." She turned to Max, "Who are they?"

"One is Vin." They should know who she was. "The other is Jade. She's the one that gave me the book that I gave to Grandfather."

"Marcus will help us as well." Lucretia said softly, fearing her mother and grandfather's reaction.

Said book is actually open upon Aurthurius? desk ironically enough as he looks to the others. "We must exercise caution, Maximus. Trust is earned, but it must be extended to be gained. If they have your trust, I will leave working with them to you." He just looks at Lucretia but says nothing. "Where's Larcius?" A frown on his lips, the man hasn't left the house in months! He should have been the first here.

Maximus gave a side-glance and nod to their grandfather on that, as he let out a slight breath as he seemed to have called the right action on that earlier. "If they tell me anything. I will let the rest of the family know."

"They can't stay in flight long, grandfather." She replied softly, "Nor can they stay high either. There's a chance the dragon could drop their prey, and if it wants father alive. It won't risk a deadly fall."

"Maximus. You know the size of the street. What would be big enough to carry a grown man easily, but fast enough to swoop him up with little detection?" This would be the crux. The family is known for dragons, but every realm has other dangers.

Maximus was blinking as he looked to the others then their grandfather. "Probably not, as someone screaming out. Would more than likely draw attention, but the streets are wide enough for them to swoop in."

Raena placed the cloth and the family ring on the table. "The cloth I understand. But the ring...?"

"Grandfather..." She had something to add.

Arthurius looks back to Lucretia curiously. "Yes?"

"If it is a dragon... Father would know how to hinder its flight further. He's been trained like the rest of us yes? Which means there's a good chance that father's had the chance to make the dragon ground quicker than normal."

Maximus gave a side-glance to their mother as she placed the cloth and the ring on the table. "He dropped both?" Said softly as possible so not to interupt Luc or their grandfather. Raena nodded to Max in answer. Maximus nodded in return.

Arthurius is beaming now as Dragonomics is in full session. He offers her the bit of char and motions to the map. "Where would it land, and mark in a widening circle as we don't know the flight direction."

"It will look on a roof top, big enough to hide itself and father." She moved to the map and squinted a little. "If it can't find a roof top, it will go for the nearest clearing... If it's big... Here..." She started circling spots, but paused. "I would search here..." She pointed to a small community park and then to a small building with a big roof. "And here first... then branch out to the rest of the locations."

Maximus? gaze moved to Luc as he shifted so not to bother the others to see where she was making the marks.

"Raena, gather Liv. You two along with Larcius will take here..." He puts their shadow marks next to the northern markings. "Max you will work with Vin and the woman called Jade here. " He circles the red roof two blocks down from the Teas. "Move outward."

Maximus gave a light nod to his grandfather on that as he put the starting position as well as which way to move outwards to memory.

"I'll cover high ground. I'll use those scope things and uh... see if I can't see him. If I do, I'll send out the signal." She said as she started for the door and paused, eyes falling to her mother, "We'll bring him home mother."