Miles likes mysteries more than he has disdain for the police, so he'd allowed himself to be deputized. Okay, okay - so he'd jumped at the chance, and not least because this arson had been chewing at him since he'd heard about it. It had been an obvious crime, but maybe that had been the point.

He shows up, fashionably late and definitely not because he overslept. There's a kid here - no, wait, not a kid, just a short person. Even if he hadn't already been sure they're a Dreamfolk, the bunny-fox-thing clinches it.

"Uh, hey," he says. "You lost?"