X's nostrils flare again as she catches the scent of blood.

It is not difficult to find the splash of blood from Doc -- though X does not know him.

And as for Kate, the scent of her blood is on the air, too, if not as strongly.

Both scents cut off abruptly on the other side of the slider to the paddock, and X frowns.

"They went through here. Kate and someone else. But it was not Ramon."

She pauses, backtracking her own passage through the stables and scenting the air again.

"I will find him."

It should not be too difficult.