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Raven's was in a messy waffle cone, but he was keeping it fairly clean. After they had grabbed plenty of napkins and were on their way out, Raven noted with a nod, "Though it's hard not helping, I'm glad I chose being here with you guys than with... Long?"

Raven paused as something, or rather someone seemed to catch his attention. He was wearing dark clothing that covered most of his body which sort of made him stick out at this time of day. It wasn't entirely clear whether he was Long or not, but the man certainly appeared to be Long's height and body type as he disappeared around the corner.

Wolfe watched the guy before looking at Frei. Frei caught his eye for a moment before dropping her cone and disappearing into the crowd. It wasn't long before she got within sight of the Long look-alike.

Raven tried to catch the cone without much success. He sighed a little as he watched her disappear. "... What if it is him?" he asked Wolfe quietly.

The man had some sort of destination in mind. To the average eye, he was walking normally, but Frei could tell he had a slight limp. A bit of a rowdy group bumped into him, and it took him a little too long to right himself. And as he started his normal pace again Frei got a quick look at him. It looked like he was Long. And it looked like he had been injured in some way.

Wolfe shrugged before turning to Raven, "Stay here," and vanished into the crowd himself.

Frei kept his eye on Long for now.

So Raven sighed and cleaned up Frei's ice cream before someone slipped on it before finding a bench to sit on.

Long still didn't seem to be aware of Frei as he kept walking.

Frei nodded to no one in particular. Wolfe was in position and peered around for any other possible threats.

There didn't appear to be anyone of threat in the area. But there were still a few people milling about.

A tiny dart shot out straight for Long's neck just at Frei grabbed his hand.

Long glanced down at the little girl blinking at her, a little confused. Then his other hand slowly went up to the scarf around his neck and felt the dart penetrating through it.

"Uncle!" Frei cried in an innocent, pleading voice, as she tugged on his arm "Uncle, you're hurt!"

Long could feel the dart dissolving in his fingers.

Long didn't say anything as his other hand started clutching at the air where the dart was. As he looked at Frei, he seemed to understand. He didn't say anything as he let his hand fall to his side.

"Uncle?" Frei asked, eyes that of a scared young girl. She didn't have a trace of the usual Frei in her at all, "Uncle, are you alright?" Her grip on his hand tightened.

Long didn't say anything as the effects of the dart started to overcome his senses. But before he lost his senses he started to lean backward so he wouldn't land on Frei. And so he collapsed unconscious to the ground without a word or a fight.

As Long collapsed Frei let out a very real scream of terror, grabbing onto his body and falling with him.

That drew the attention of the people around them. Some of them ran over to see what was going on. Someone started calling an ambulance, one tried to console Frei, and another checked to see if Long was breathing.

Long was breathing, but just enough to stay alive. Frei was in tears and frantically shaking Long's body.

Wolfe's voice murmured through Raven's earpiece, "Go back inside the ice cream shop and strike up a conversation with the workers," he told Raven in a stern but calm voice.