"Jack? Jack? Jack where are you?"
Came the little voice of a young girl lost, wandering aimlessly all on her lonesome.
"Jack?"
She called again, trying her luck another time to no avail. Her brother was nowhere in sight.
"Anyone? Has anyone seen my brother....?"
She muttered softly, turning her head left and right, worry rapidly filling her little eyes.
"Anyone at all....?"
In the midst of her strife, it chimed in her ears so clearly...
"Jasmine....."
The young girl looked up, looking all around her as the sound of a strange voice suddenly filled her ears.
"Jasmine...."
Came right after, bright as day, deep and soft.
"Jasmine...."
It came again. The girl found herself being drawn....closer....
"Jack?"
"Jasmine...."
"Is that you Jack?"
"Come here, lil' Jasmine...."
The curious little girl drew still closer, a tall figure shrouded in shadow beckoning her forward.
"Who's that?"
"Come see....Jasmine...."
And come see she did. Before she knew it, she wandered into an alley, dark and secluded, nothing but her and the figure between her.
"Howdy."
It said, a large grin spreading across it's face as they tilted the western style hat upon their head down. The little girl had to stare quite the ways up to see where the stranger started and where they ended. They wore a long leather coat, their style of dress similar to that of someone fit to be herding bulls and fighting a smart-mouthed bar-goer. The strangest thing, however, was their hair. Either they had the strangest beard they had ever seen, or what little they could see of their face was coated in hair. And their mouth.....
"Excuse me....."
"Hm?"
"Is that a snout?"
"HEEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!!!!"
With just that one question, the stranger launched into a laughing fit, loud, gargled, and unfamiliar, the call of a wild animal. Of all things to ask in the moment at hand....
"Why, I don't know! It could be! With sharp teeth, and black lips, and a maw ever so fearsome...."
Thee little girl drew back.
"Razors, perfect for gnawin' on little thangs, and nibblin' on tiny lil' hands."
She drew back a little further, ready to run, until...
"Or, they could be for talkin' and bein' civil with lost lil' lambs like yourself."
Not sure what to think, she stalled a moment, before speaking.
She stalled a moment.
"Have you-"
"Seen your brother?"
A look of surprise from the girl, contrasting the strange grin on the face of the stranger.
"How did you-"
"A lil' cuss not much older than you asked me the same thing."
"Really?"
"Mhm! Went right up and asked, "Scuse me, have you seen the most precious lil' thing round here? I lost er' and that ain't no good! Perhaps a civil razor-jawed specimen like yourself could help!""
she giggled.
"No he didn't!"
"But he did! How'd I know from first glance?"
She smiled. :I guess your right."
"That's right. Say, I can take yeh to em'. Couldn't have gone far."
"You can? Thank you!"
"No trouble! Just take mah hand."
The figure stuck out their hand, which was oddly hairy, the most curious pattern aligning it,
"Don't be shy now. I won't bite."
Gently, she laid her hand in theirs. Soft. Scratchy. It reminded her of the little stray she had held not so long ago.
"You have odd hands."
They chuckled softly, gruff and deep.
"So I've heard. Come along now."
With that, they were off, leaving their peculiar meeting-place behind.
So, along the to went, walking and talking, looking to and fro, all the little girl needed.
"JACK!"
She finally called out, running ahead to her older brother.
"Jaz! Where were you? You just disappeared on me!"
"I got lost, but I'm okay! I made a friend! The strange-"
Sbe glanced behind her, only to find nothing there, no stranger of the sort.
"What are you pointing at?"
Quickly as they had found them, quick as they had gone.
"The tall person! The one you asked where I was!"
"What? Jaz, I've been looking for you alone the entire time, what are you talking about?"
In that fleeting moment, it seemed nothing but the young girl's imagination, an odd ally she dreamed up and met, but never truly saw.
Though, of course, what are the chances of that?
"Heeheehee......"
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