Connie
"As slow and painful as I could make yours?" Danico retorts with a cynical tick in his voice. He had merely meant it as a threat to calm the girl, he truly had no intention of killing her, but if she become a problem then the idea wouldn't be completely out of mind. 

Danico decided to stay silent for a moment once she asked where they were going. Answering that question could prove troublesome in the future should she figure it out, instead he decides to beat around the bush a little, so to speak- 
"How's your head?" He asks, intentionally ignoring her question as he pulls the reigns off to the right as they go round an intersection. "Do not worry, though. We near our destination."
Joseph
She glared at the sheet that covered the cage, her eyes narrowing towards the source of his voice. Perhaps she should have shut up but she couldn't help it, she was a mouthy shifter and would stop at nothing to annoy the person who had captured her. She didn't even notice that he had changed the topic as she replied with a sarcastic voice that was barely a mere whisper. *My head is great! It's not like I've been kidnaped by some insane dick.* 

A migraine was forming in her head, she could feel it. She only wished that the trip was near an end and he would take her out of this cage. She was already weak to the point that she could barely lift her own head. The amount of energy it took her to speak to this man directly didn't help.
Connie
"As expected, then." He adds to her snap, not only anticipating her weakness, but also relying on it. Getting a crazed shifter out of a cage alone wouldn't be easy, so having her lay in a weakened state would certainly help. Of course, he had back up measures should she try and attack once he opened the cage, such as an experimental gas he had been working on, but he truly didn't wish to resort to such measures. Perhaps he should have tested the gas first, sure, but opportunities like this don't come around often. He had to take it when he could. Who knows what side effects it could have, he had a few ideas but nothing set in stone. 

The horse drawn carriage pulls up to a spot in the road where there's a couple of guards apprehending a hooded man, pinning him down on the ground with his hand behind his back. There was some blood, torn clothing and weapons dropped. The scuffle had clearly been through the worst of it, but one of the guards turns his attention to Danico and his carriage. "Halt!" He says as he eyes off the alchemist approaching, "We're looking for someone who looked similar to this person." The guard points to the man pinned on the ground, still struggling against his captor, clearly a futile attempt.

"I've not seen anyone along this road so far." Danico says hurriedly, annoyance rings in his voice as he glares at the guard though his goggles. "Now am I free to go? I've not got much time."
The guard eyes the cloth-covered cage on the back of the carriage, giving Danico a suspicious look from behind the feint glow of his lantern. "What's in there?" The guard questions, taking a step further. 
*What an annoyance..* The alchemist keeps his composure, however, opting to try and bend the truth a little. "A beast with a bounty. A feral canine with blood to its name. I've caught it and I'm taking it in."
"But the city is that way?" The guard presses, glaring at Danico further after pointing back the direction they had come.
"I've to fetch something from my home first. Now please, can I go?" The alchemist snaps, clearly getting annoyed at the guards useless questioning. 
The guard moves over the back of the carriage, examining the cloth with his eyes, to begin with. "So you won't mind if I take a look, then?"
"I cannot suggest you-" Danico barely gets a word in before the guard pulls the cloth up, revealing the trapped shifter inside-
Joseph
All of Cecilia's senses had been dulled. Her sense of smell, her hearing and even her sight was starting blur so she hadn't noticed the voices outside her cage. She couldn't feel the link she had created between her and her capture's mind, which indicated that she was no longer able to communicate. She could only hope that they were near their destination, she didn't know how much longer she could take being in the cage. This was a new feeling to her, she had never had silver touching her as long as it did now and it almost scared her. She didn't know if she would be able to survive this if kept in the cage any longer. Usually she was fine when entrapped in silver barred cages but he had purposely spread silver shavings along the floor so it would touch her no matter where she moved. She was constantly touching it.

Once the she felt the cage being pulled to a halt, she had hoped they arrived. She did her best to make out what was going on but all she could hear were mumbled voices. Cecilia couldn't even tell if they were male or female. Suddenly light invaded her vision causing her eyes to blink rapidly in hopes to adjust. Everything turned white from the sun suddenly filling the cage, creating a black coloured blur. A small whimper left her muzzle, it was the only thing she was able to do with little energy she had left. In her mind though, it had been a scream for help. She hated this, this weak feeling only angered her more but she couldn't do anything about it.
Connie
The guard winced as the smell of singed fur escaped the until now covered cage, like opening the floodgates, the smell was intense enough to cause the guard to barely even take a look at the beast inside before stepping back from the cage. "What did you do to it?" The guard questioned, blocking his nose and sounding like he was talking through a trumpet. With a silent sigh of relief, Danico continued on, a little more cooperative now which, in hindsight, may have been a tell that he was hiding something after all, but the guard didn't notice anyway. "I had to do what I had to do to catch it." He answered with a less annoyed, now stern look in his eyes. "Fine, you're free to go." The guard waves his hand in front of his face as he walks off as if it would get rid of the smell, moving towards the troublemaker still pinned to the ground. "Have a good day, gentlemen." Danico finished, followed by one more *"Ya!"* As the reins whip, leading the horse off on their course once more.

Given that the shifter could no longer speak, the rest of the ride was relatively quiet. The horses followed the path to a T for another kilometer or so, following the rather tight trail through the forest- particularly for horse and carriage. Either way, they arrived to a part in the road that split off into darker dirt- a path much less traveled with a line in the trees cut out. They followed this makeshift path for a time until coming to the side of a cliff. Running along the cliff face was a series of vines that ran all the way from the top to the forest ground they currently stood on. These vines were very thick and matted, looking more like thick green roots over vines. Danico stepped off of the carriage and pulled small bellows from his pouch. Aiming it at the vines, he sprayed a thick cloud of this dark red gas onto the thick surface. As Danico turned back to step onto the carriage, the vines began to shrink, retreating up the cliff face to reveal a secret passage built into the side of the cliff. Inside was a long tunnel dug out of the stone with torches pre-lit torches along the sides to stave off the cold dark. Not long after entering, the vines began to creep down once more, slowly covering the entrance again. The Tunnel led into a large opening with torches adorning all around the walls, with a couple of off-shoot rooms; one with a large circle built onto the floor and the other a small living area with a bed, study desk and storage chest.

The horses moved off to the side, standing idle as Danico moved around to feed them a carrot each from his pouch. In the main hall was a few makeshift contraptions, one designs to hold and spread a humanoid figures limbs, looking like a large wooden *X*, another was a surface that looked like a bed, with hay packed onto the surface with a thick piece of cloth covering it, with prisoners shackles built into the sides, presumably to pin the victim down and another table with an assortment of tools on it, with a vial of milky-white liquid in it. 

Danico tears the cloth off of the cage, revealing the dim room to the beast, followed by cutting a rope on the corner of the cage, hidden from the inside of the cage by the corner created by the thick metal bars coming together, after grabbing a small bellows from the table off to the side.. As he does, the cage falls limp like the sides of a crate coming loose. He puffs the bellows into the face of the limp and lifeless shifter, a yellow-ish cloud puffs out. "A Horigalat Spiders venom, dehydrated and mixed with Torset tree leaves created a very potent sleep powder. In about an hour or two you'll wake fine as day." He exclaims, muffled from behind his mask.
Joseph
Cecilia wasn't able to process that she had been moved and the cage doors were now released. Too dazed by the pain her body was currently in. If it hadn't been for the burning sensation, the large wolf was sure she would have passed out. Instead, she could barely move a muscle. If it wasn't for the fact that she could feel the smoke enter her nostrils and travel down her throat, Cecilia wouldn't have noticed how close he was to her face. She didn't hear him when he explained to her what the smoke was as she weakly snapped her teeth. It was a hopeless attempt but it didn't stop her from trying to tear into his flesh. Feeling sleep beginning to overtake her, Cecilia began to panic at the thought that she might not wake up. She managed to get a whine to pass her muzzle before her eyes rolled into the back of her head, passing out.