"Wow, Mia, I think this is a really bad idea and I'm going to go wake up Haemi to ask her about it." He heads for the house.

Meelia lunges forward onto her hands, using her arm muscles to spring off the ground into the air, flipping forward while she does. At the height of her flip she claps the heels of her hands together on the guards temples. 

His body hits the ground at the same time as she lands. 

Oh....

He's probably going to wake up in less than an hour and she really doesn't want people searching for her that soon.

She prods and pokes at the guard a bit. His skeleton feels pretty similar to an amalien one, more similar than a wolf or a bear's so this should work okay. She pushes and twists parts of his body to dislocate his bones in a way that means he won't be able to move his limbs when he wakes up. She does the same to his jaw so he won't be able to yell. With that does she drags him into a corner where someone won't see him less they start looking for him and then they'll see him easy and it won't be at all hard to fix the bones.

... She's really really sorry.

She makes sure no one else sees her as she leaves. This time she doesn't flag down a bus on the highway Cheep brought her to before - she rolls under a car in the dark and clings to the underside during the trip. It's not long before she's back in the parking garage of the red haired people.

It's not too long to her next stop from there, just across the street. No one sees her as she scales the apartment building, climbing quietly into a room on the fourth floor.

She searches the cabinets without making a sound, eventually finding what she needs. There's a bathroom there so as long as she's quick this will be fine.

She's known amaliens who dyed their hair before, though they use lemon juice instead of this worse smelling stuff and berries instead of this jar, but the basic idea is the same. The bleach stings her scalp as she applies it, but she manages to follow the instructions on it and the hair dye without making a sound. Her hands are red afterwards but she can use the bleach to wash that off too. It hurts a bunch. 

She sets out, keeping the bleach and hair dye with her, searching for a good hiding spot.

Cheep finds one! It's in a wall in a really beat up building and he can chase the mice in it away since they might make sound or bite his Meelia.

"Thanks Cheep" she whispers.

Meelia hides in the hollow space behind a wall that Cheep found. She isn't sure whether Tish and Haemi will search the red place for her but they might and she doesn't want to be found right now.

Finally, newly red haired and exhausted, Meelia settles down to nap. She'll wake up if she hears anything surprising, but otherwise she'll sleep for about a week. That way any searches will hopefully be done already after she wakes up.

There is, after a couple hours, some shouting and clattering around her, but they do not open the wall.

As long as no one is mentioning anything that sounds relevant to her she keeps napping.

Her name comes up several times, actually. And the word "amalien" and remarks that she is missing.

She wakes up when people mention her name and pays attention to what they're saying about her.

"By all accounts this was obviously the amalien's own idea and she seems to think you're cute, we're not going to crack down any harder than we need to to find her," says a voice. "But we think she may be here - maybe she snuck in, maybe she threatened you, maybe her pet mouse has hypnosis powers, frankly I don't care - and we want you all out of the way till we've searched the place, top to bottom. You can go to work and park at the landfill or the incinerator or the sewage station till you get the all-clear, the social workers in Nauan and Pioppi are having their reds send extra vehicles to collect you and you can go there instead, we're diverting deliveries to those places. Got it? Because I don't want to say that a hundred more times and I don't want any of you to be here when they bring in the dogs."

OH NO! 

That doesn't sound like things you say to people who want to help you that sounds like the red haired people aren't getting a choice and it's her fault and and and.

She only panics for a bit before her mind starts working on problem solving. 

The dogs are going to be really good at smelling and maybe also hearing and can find her and hiding from smell is much much harder and... Actually she has everything she needs to solve this here.

Step one is to exercise, quietly.

Step two is to rub Cheep on her armpits. Sorry Cheep. 

Next she looks intently at Cheep.

"I need you to go away and wait for me. Tish and Haemi's house would be okay. But. Shoo. Sorry Cheep."

"Cheep."

Cheep can tell he is supposed to go away and not be here and he trusts his Meelia to find him later. He leaves, heading back to the house where he snuggled with her in that comfy place a while ago.

Now, this is the second worst part, she needs to stop smelling like herself. 

She takes the bleach she'd saved for future hair dying and pours it all over her belongings and then herself.

ow ow ow o- 

She briefly loses consciousness. When she wakes up she has to do the last bit of plan so she doesn't sweat or make noise or anything for a bit.

She lies on her back and positions her wooden sword in just the right place and makes sure the tip is sharp enough, before plunging it into her heart, pouring the last of the bleach on top as she does so.

Amaliens are hard to kill and Meelia was careful not to do more than a minimal amount of damage, but it will still take a few weeks for her heart to start beating again after a wound like that. In the meantime, she naps. As silent as the grave.