The Preserve: After Classes Monday [5-9-11]

[walkswithcoyote]

After classes, Mercy headed out to the Preserve to meet Blysse and Blind Seer. She'd brought hot chocolate for herself and Blysse and had managed to talk the burger guy into just giving her a few raw patties for Blind Seer.

She was a little nervous, but also very interested to know more about the two of them.




[ooc: For the two she's meeting and NFB, please!]

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[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

In the small clearing they'd agreed upon waited the two wolves.

"So," Firekeeper said. "You wish to talk?" Some people might start with 'how are you?' or other such pleasantries. Firekeeper was not some people.

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy nodded and offered her the drink hesitantly. "I didn't know if you might like some hot chocolate. And I brought some meat for Blind Seer."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate is always good," Firekeeper admitted with a smile, accepting the drink. Blind Seer's ears twitched, and Firekeeper offered a translation, since not-entirely-human scent or not, she wasn't sure if Mercy would understand the speech of Beasts: "And he say thank you, for he is very hungry," and then, with affection: "Though that is always so, it seems."

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy smiled and put the meat patties where Blind Seer could reach them easily. "That pretty much always seemed the case with the wolves back home. Although..." she took a deep breath, "... they were werewolves, not real wolves so it's different, of course."

Well, he didn't seem to hate her the way most wolves hated coyotes, so things were going pretty well so far.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Well, they managed to be allies and perhaps even friends with a great cat, so next to that, being friendly to a coyote was certainly no hardship.

"But you are not werewolf," Firekeeper said, sipping at her drink as Blind Seer snapped up the meat patties. "Though your smell is not human either." Firekeeper's own scent, for the record, was more wolfish than anyone wearing a human shape's ought to be.

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy shook her head. "No. I was just raised by them. I... I know things are different here, but back home no one can know about werewolves or about what I am, so I've never really talked about it till I met another shifter here."

She bit her lip. "I'm a walker and I can shift into a coyote. I didn't plan to tell anyone else, but I figured you and Blind Seer would figure it out sooner or later, so it made sense to say something first. And I wasn't sure if maybe you were a shifter, too, since you smell a lot like wolf."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"I am not such," Firekeeper admitted. "There were a time when I wished this were so, but..." she made a face. "The magic that would make this possible in my world is wicked and cruel. So I have come to accept I have a wolf's heart in a human shape. This is enough."

[walkswithcoyote]

"I'm sorry," Mercy said quietly. "In my world to become a werewolf requires a violent attack, bad enough that the person either dies or is changed, so I kind of understand."

She'd often wished she was a werewolf, herself, so that for once she'd have a chance of being accepted by the pack. And she couldn't help wondering if her foster father still would have killed himself after Evelyn's death if she'd been a werewolf and not just a coyote.

It still hurt too much to think about, so instead she turned to Blind Seer. "I wasn't sure if you would be... uncomfortable... being around me in class. I know most werewolves and wolves hate coyotes here. They'll kill them if they find them in their territory."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Blind Seer regarded her thoughtfully before dropping his jaw in a wolfish version of a grin. I have no quarrel with coyotes, he said with a casual swish of his tail. And it would be nice to have someone else to run with, besides.

[ooc: totally up to you on whether or not she'd understand him!]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy's eyes went wide and then she beamed. She couldn't catch all of the nuances of what Blind Seer was saying, but the gist - that he had no problem with her and would enjoy running with her - got through. She turned to Blysse with the same awed smile. "I understood him!"

She turned back to Blind Seer and gave him another respectful nod. "Thank you. I would be honored to run with you. I... I haven't shifted in a number of months because I've been trying to, well, to fit in at my mother's house, but as long as I don't end up on the radio..."

It might actually be a relief to shift. She didn't have to, the way werewolves did, but she couldn't deny that she started feeling edgy when she didn't shift for a long time.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"People here do not mind such things so much," Firekeeper said with a shrug. "But also, like I say, I have ways to make squirrels not wish to tell things," she grinned fiercely. A well placed snarl or two that she'd never actually had to follow through on did very well for such things.

[ooc: sorry for the long delay. RL happened O_o]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy nodded slowly. "I think I'm starting to understand that. Until a few months ago I lived with the Marrok's pack and it didn't matter, but when I left to go live with my mother - and her new family," and there was the tinge of hurt, though she tried to hide it, "I couldn't let anyone know so I decided not to shift. To try to not cause problems. I thought I'd have to do that here too."

[ooc: And no worries! RL can be nuts! I'm always fine with SP.]