“Well, look who’s awake.” Ryan was relieved to see that Eric was still alive, and doing better, but he was pretty tired and his voice didn’t carry very much. It had taken him quiet some time to get some sleep after Alfred had brought him the news He only managed to sleep for a little while, and ended up waking up several times. Eventually he just decided to stay awake. The entire time, he was trying to think of how they should approach this, trying to come up with a plan of action, trying to map out all of the possibilities. He had been pacing the room when Eric finally stirred. “I wish I had some good news for you, dear Eric, but sadly I don’t.” The look on his face made it pretty obvious that he was not looking forward to heading out to that end of town at all.<br/><br/>Sitting on a chair in front of Eric, Ryan folded his arms and sank back a little. There was an almost uncharacteristically focused look in his eyes. “Alfred returned the other night, shortly after you passed out.” He began slowly, not leaving out any detail. “Apparently Kat was taken to the other edge of town, but Alfred was unable to follow them to get an exact location. You see, it just so happens one of my rivals controls a bit of territory near there. Getting in there, and out, without running into them is going to prove difficult. I don’t want to have to fight our way through…” It was definitely going to be difficult. Adam really knew how to keep his defenses up; nothing ever got past his men. If even the slightest thing got messed up, the whole neighborhood would know about it, they would be screwed