Cats in London

[comebewe]

People had been disappearing.

Which wasn't all that unusual, really. Not in a big city like London. People went missing all the time. Maybe they wanted a new life, maybe they died, maybe they just fell through the cracks. Normal.

Except there were more than usual, many of them happened around Trafalgar Square, and people were seeing things in the western fountain. So. Not so normal. And, strictly speaking, not actual his area. The Midnight Mayor was supposed to defend the city - the city, not the people. The Aldermen were keeping an eye on things, but as long as it was just people disappearing, as far as they were concerned it was just another magical oddity. None of their concern, unless things got worse. Strictly speaking, he wasn't supposed to be dealing with this at all.

Matthew had always been very good at doing the things he wasn't supposed to.

Although now that he was here, he was starting to think that maybe the Alderman was wrong. The fountain felt...wrong. Off. Out of balance, on a deeper level.

They planted their palms on the edge of the fountain, leaning over to stare into it. Would something reach up out of it, try to make them disappear? Would they see the flickers of a vision, off the odd, far-off places they'd heard about? If they let their senses drift, flow deeper into the waters, would they be able to find what it was that was taking people away...

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[visionarykitten]

A fountain was not where Arhu had expected to turn up. The Gate had been stationed in the London subway, not the middle of a square with a fountain in it. And when he'd checked the patency on the New York side, he'd seen what he'd expected to see: the dark platform, the eyes of the member of the Gating team on the other side, and the familiar city where his sister lived.

So hopping through the extended Gate and landing with a splash in said fountain resulted in a yowl and a bolt for drier ground, which also involved a lot of splashing. The human in the way--

--oh vhai, someone saw me!--

--got a faceful of water, but at least he didn't get a faceful of cat claws, as Arhu managed to avoid blundering right into him. Just barely.