Tiyana woke gasping for breath. Allan jr. and Olympus both stood over her.
"Did you pull me out?" Tiyana asked her younger cousin.
"No." Allan jr. replied. "Your bison did." Tiyana grinned and hugged Olympus. The bison returned her affection with much drooling and a light head-butt.
"I've found Him by the way." Allan jr. said.
"You did?" Tiyana asked startling a slobbery bison calf who was snacking on her hair.
"Yes." Allan jr. replied. "He has a meeting today and I was thinking maybe if you could get close to the door, then you could listen to his conversation."
"Good idea." Tiyana said jumping up. "I'm cold and wet though."
"You'll dry." Allan jr. said. "C'mon!" He started running in the direction of Sequim. Tiyana ran after him.
They arrived in good time and Allan jr. directed Tiyana in the direction of the building that the meeting was to take place in. Tiyana entered the building and wished Andy was with her.
She starting listening at all the doors until she found what she was looking for. There were two men behind the door she was crouching by. The man she had been searching for was behind the door. He was talking about the rainforest and a demolition date. This was obviously the end of the meeting though.
"Good," said one man. "I don't want to keep you too long."
"I appreciate the thought." The man who wanted to destroy the rainforest said.
The door opened and Tiyana hid behind a convenient giant plant. The man who exited had mostly gray hair but you could tell that it had been red at one point. He was average height for a human and was walking with a purpose. Tiyana followed him to find out where he was going. Allan jr. joined her as did Olympus, who had acquired bison hiccups.
The man stopped at a car, opened the door on the driver's side, and received a phone call from some unknown accomplice. The man answered the phone.
'What do you want, Ernest?" The man asked. Tiyana and Allan jr. forced a reluctant hiccuping bison into the back of the car.
"You have him, but he's actually hanging off a cliff with Trevor McCallister's sharks hanging out below?" The man said. Tiyana and Allan jr. joined Olympus. Tiyana shut the door and blocked out the rest of the conversation.
Eventually, the man got in the car and drove off with all three stowaways.
The man parked the car in a parking lot at a location that Tiyana had not known about. The man got out as did the three stowaways. The man met up with three other men who showed him to the edge of a cliff some ways up the trail at a place called the Viewpoint.
Tiyana watched one of the men, a tallish man with brown hair, pull Matthew up onto solid ground again.
"Ah, yes," the man said. "The boy. Matthew isn't it?"
"Yes." Matthew gasped out. He was breathing hard from his stay over the side of the cliff.
"Nice name." The man said.
"Thank you?" Matthew said unsure of what the man was getting too. "What do you want?"
"We want to know" Another of the men growled. He was short with gray hair and a prominent scar on his arm. "Why two teenagers and a bison have been following Malcolm."
