<br/><strong>Tomus Yoatz ~ collecting Maddy</strong><br/><br/>Tomus Yoatz wasn't directly part of the Operation. He wasn't part of the Team. He wasn't on the side of the ranch that brought in money in the same way that Jesse James had brought in a cash flow.<br/><br/>Tomus hadn't even gotten arrested. That's not to say he did everything legal. It just meant he wasn't important  enough or stupid enough to get in over his head and get caught. Tomus preferred the majority of his efforts to be legal as a screen and the other 65% under the table, as far under the table as China in some cases.<br/><br/>Right now as he walked from the stables to the Hen House it seemed like he'd be digging his way in that direction shortly. He was the kind of solid criminal all master minds required. No questions. Did the job before him. Didn't get nosey or want to take over. He didn't worry about getting cheated just killed. He was quiet, intelligent enough and did his work so thoroughly it was like he wasn't there most of the time.<br/><br/>Until now. He opened the door to the Hen House and stepped inside. He looked around to get his bearing. It was a cage he was looking for not a room. The number was four. At the T he turned left and stopped before cage number four.<br/><br/>Peering inside he made the outline of a lump covered with a blanket. That must be the her, he thought as he unlocked the door.<br/><br/>People told Yoatz he could be a radio announce on a classical music station. They said he had the voice for it. It was that voice he used to speak to the lump as he stepped inside to fetch her.<br/><br/>"Easy now," He said unlocking her chain from the ring on the floor.<br/><br/>He bent to her, without any hesitation he lifted her to his chest as the lump of blanket she was. It was then he felt the heat from her. Nothing a blanket by itself would cause. He hoped she didn't have anything that was catching. It answer the question about why Mordecai chose him instead of the 'chosen'. Well, as long as she didn't give him man flu he didn't give a shit.  A jobs a job.<br/><br/>It was pay by the hour no matter how he spent it. So he stepped out of the cage with her in his arms and headed for the Hen House exit.<br/><br/>