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At first, she’d thought that those warlocks who had attacked her the a few weeks back had been the one setting the cornerhounds on her. She could only reasonably assume that, seeing as she had no idea where the heck they came from. It was only after a bit of research that she learned of her folly: The Hounds of Tindalos only notice those who frolick through space and time. Although Tilly hadn’t ever really experimented with backwards time travel, she’d dabbled with speeding up time a little bit, mostly for use in healing potions or particularly boring lectures. But manipulating space? She’d just developed herself a teleportation crystal, and she’d been using it quite a bit.

As the waves crashed against a rocky outcropping abandoned shoreline, she nearly panicked. She had chosen this place as her refuge because she knew that the sea weathered away all corners, made everything smooth. But still, she couldn’t help but examine the rocks for any signs of sharp or jagged edges. She didn’t find any.

Sighing with relief, she sat down at the water’s edge, her staff in her lap. She looked a mess, like she hadn’t slept in days. Her hat was missing, lost in a chase, and the right sleeve of her leather jacket was tattered. One of her shoes looked like it had been used as a chew toy. There was fresh scarring on her arms and face, though her healing factor, combined with the magic she’d used to treat the wounds, was already making them appear old. She’d been hounded (heh) by these things for a few days now, and while she was reasonably safe in the school, her new arrangement with Caissa meant that she was doing lots of running off campus for ritual components and whatnot.

She probably could have called on Caissa for a spell or something to mask herself from the beasts, or eradicate them at their source, but she had too much pride to come running to her for help every chance she got. And besides, she had an ally who might have been uniquely suited to this sort of thing.

She’d risked using a cellphone to get ahold of Alt. She had one, she just never used it, for fear that it would explode next to her face or something. She was a little afraid to call on Alt, too, because of what had occurred with Aluin a few weeks back. She worried that Aluin had told him, even though he’d said he wouldn’t. She hadn’t meant to put him in danger, risked her life to make sure no harm came to him, but she wasn’t eager to have to explain that to an alien monstrosity who was older than time itself.

Still, she hoped he showed up. This was the only place she was moderately safe for her, but she dare not rest until Alt was here. She busind herself by retreating to her library, studying her spellbook to replenish her stores of magic.
 
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Arcadia

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Altizica was a little surprised to here Tilly’s voice on a cellphone. He didn’t really think just calling him would be something she would have thought to done. He didn’t really mind going out to talk to here though. The past few weeks had been fairly boring so it was nice to have something happen at least.

Altizica spent as little time as possible to keep his dear little pact waiting for him, taking the fastest modes of transportation available to him to make it all the way here. Altizica made his way up to the shoreline where Tilly was waiting, whistling a little once he got a good look at her. “By Azathoth Tilly what has been happening to you since our last encounter? You look absolutely horrid, have you been having fun without me?” Altizica chuckled a little after he said that.
 

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She’d never been more happy to see the devourer of worlds.

”Wait.” She stopped him from about twenty feet away, rising to her feet. ”Do you have anything on you with a sharp angle? Like 120 degrees or less? Belt buckles, cell phones, maybe a watch?” She hadn’t spent much time on the phone call, fearful of them as she was, and hadn’t thought to warn him about what specifically was troubling her. He might have been familiar with the hounds, but she’d been in such a rush that she hadn’t mentioned it.

”Cornerhounds.” She said, as if that explained everything. ”One of them bit me a few weeks ago, and I think it got a taste for me. It started with like one or two attacks a week, but now there’s a whole pack after me.” She said, glancing nervously towards that same rocky outcropping. If a chunk decided to break off, the pack could very well catch her scent and descend on them from the splinters. ”I didn’t wanna bother you with a few dogs, but it’s a lot more than a few now…”
 

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Altizica paused his advance as he heard Tilly ask if he had anything with sharp angles on it. He was confused for a moment but quickly realized what was going on before she even said their name. “Ah. You’ve been screwing with time and the Hounds of Tindalos have gotten notice of you eh? Honestly I’m not that surprised if it’s you.” Altizica stated bluntly after some of the incidents Tilly had called Alt for.

“I mean most likely I do have an item or two with such angles...it’s hard not to really have one. But I don’t think you need to worry about the pack if I’m here. If they come out to play they’ll all be dead by the time they fully materialize.”
 

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She might have put up more of a fight at the Alt’s insinuation that she got into this kind of trouble often, but that was why she’d made this arrangement with him in the first place.
”You know what I’m about.” She said haphazardly, waving a hand dismissively. She had grown a lot more nonchalant about her partnership with the Devourer of Worlds since they’d been working together, the same way she had about her partnership with Caissa. You could only hang out with wolves for so long before your adrenaline starts to get annoyed with you and cut you off prematurely.

He seemed dismissive of her fears, but Tilly kept her distance. She’d seen these things move, and she’d seen Alt move. Alt was faster, but there were a lot of them. She wasn’t taking any chances. ”How many do you think you can take at once?” She asked him. She didn’t doubt that Altizica could fight off each and every one of the hounds, but that wouldn’t do Tilly much good if they swarmed her before he could.
 
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