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A mostly quiet building.
There are dogs waiting for their owners, current or future or former, and an examination room, and a wooden counter between the office proper and the waiting room.
It's quiet, now quite a while since sunset.
The only employee is doing inventory.
She curls up tighter under her blanket, then intentionally relaxes. "I okay."
Then, to the sheriff, "I show where person kill person?"
She nods, and stands and offers her hands to him and Scott. "Go-magic, go there."
He takes her hand, as does Scott.
"Second star to the right."
And here they are at the scene of the crime; behind the tree the kobold was hiding behind, in fact. The knife she teleported away from the attacker is a few feet away, and she points it out first - "this" - and then where the attack actually happened - "there".
"This knife was the weapon. The person you saw used the knife to hurt another person?"
"Hurt is give pain or sad. I hurt kobold if kobold is sad because me. I hurt kobold if kobold is in pain because of me."
She listens to Scott and then nods to the sheriff. "Person hurt person," she mimes the slash of the knife, "I magic knife, then I magic person and I."
"Good. You helped that person, the victim. It makes some things harder for me, but that's good."
"Opposite of hurt is help. Make happy, take pain. Victim is person in pain, no person why pain. Sheriff thanks kobold."
"There's nothing connecting the victim to this location, not after the sudden...appearance in your house. I'll have to figure something out. Can it take us home?"
They each take a hand, and they're back at Scott's house.
"I should go. I have a lot to get to work on. Stiles should be here any minute, you two should talk some things out. Send him home when you're done."
"So this is a surprise. Do I get to know what's going on now?"
"Stiles, this is the kobold. They're from really far away, and they helped save a potential victim last night."
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