He got up, licking his paw. That toe with the ring on it was irritating him. Still, he got up and stretched. Time to hunt. After crawling out the window, he headed down the road. The place smelled of human, but he didn’t want to kill just yet. Not when there were large noisy things larger than him passing by.
There were no humans on their own and he wasn’t too hungry yet. More likely than not, he would lay down somewhere until his appetite grew larger or there was some easy prey to snag.
Prey like stray detectives?
Hakuba was out and about that evening, delivering more letters. Why? He really wasn’t sure, but it seemed an easy thing to appease his parents and get out of the house. Which is something that he really, really needed. Besides, it was a lovely evening and hardly anyone seemed to be out and about.
So out he went walking and happened upon the most peculiar thing. White wolves in the park by the shrines were one thing, but… lions? That was a lion, wasn’t it? At first he might have thought that it was a large dog, but no, the frame was all wrong.
He slowed and stopped where he was on the sidewalk, under a streetlamp was just flickering to life as the ambient light faded.
…That was definitely a lion. Did that fit with the reports from the heist the other night? Perhaps… that would certainly explain a few things. Missing zoo animal? He hadn’t heard any reports about that. Odd. He fished in his suit jacket for his cell phone.