There is no place in the creek deep enough for her to get fully submerged, so she focuses on watching her body a little bit at a time. Stella is used to bathing in cold water, seeing as the monks don't like her coming in covered in blood after going hunting. A faint pop comes to her from the direction of the shelter, but she thinks nothing of it. Monks and the people of the village had few guns, so she isn't familiar with the sound of gunshot. The wind is going away from her, so she doesn't pick up the intruders scent.<br/><br/>That is until she returns to the shelter to find several piles of dust and blood spatters but no Dagger. She lets out a sigh. Couldn't they go twenty four hours without some form of trouble? In any case, she starts tracking the attackers scents, following them to the ware house where they had taken Dagger.<br/><br/>The building is highly run down, so it isn't hard to find a place to get in. She follows the sounds of voices, assuming correctly they would keep Dagger close by. She keeps to the ceiling rafters, soon spotting Dagger unconscious in an old fashioned animal cage. Unconscious or at least not moving. And two guard vampires who appeared to be playing poker and having a good smoke, guns loaded with more tranq darts leaning against the table.<br/><br/>"Well 'ose two where lousy protectors. That she wolf just ran off and left 'im wide open," one of the vamps on guard duty remarks before laying down another card on the table.. "Course the shot we had for her would have killed her dead. Wonder what the boss would have told the Pariah about the bitch's death. After all everyone knows the fairer sex in his life don't last long. Rumor has it he ran with Aleera back in his younger days. Story has it she took him under her wings and trained him up right." "Aleera you say? I though she wuz only a legend. Sumthing to tell sirelings in order ta get them to behave."<br/><br/>Stella takes that oppurtune moment to drop in own them, twin swords making short work of them. "Sorry stupid blood suckers I am still very much alive," she tells the pile of dust. Undoubtly someone had to to be watching the area, so she has to figure out how to get Dagger out of here fast. She takes it as a good sign when he tries moving to  get up when he spots her coming over to examine the iron bars that make up his cage.