< What are you doing? >

< Ah, I'm... > Suyan trailed off, as though she had forgotten temporarily. Then she looked around. < ...Looking for my keys. >

She stepped over to the side, where the edge of the sidewalk was just visible, not seeming to notice the featureless shapes of people watching from somewhere just beyond that. Hawk's many faces followed her.

< I dropped them right around...here. >

Hawk leaned over to look. There was nothing obvious in the gutter where she was now searching. < Here? Are you sure? >

< Yes, somewhere, > Suyan replied, now busy peering at the outlines of the stones.

< When? > Hawk asked.

< Just now. >