Cubnapping Kristin
5/12/2006
02:30 PM
Logfile from GarouMUSH.
Currently the moon is in the waxing Full Moon phase (99% full).
It is currently 14:19 Pacific Time on Fri May 12 2006.
Currently in Saint Claire, it is a cloudy day. The temperature is 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius). The wind is currently coming in from variable directions at 3 mph. The barometric pressure reading is 30.22 and steady, and the relative humidity is 38 percent. The dewpoint is 29 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 degrees Celsius.)
Elson Commercial District
In the intersection of Fourteenth and Elson, the center of this three-block area of Elson Street, an elementary school's playground sits in the one corner not occupied by small businesses. Fenced in by chain-link fencing with the top tilted in to discourage the schoolchildren climbing out, the playground seems fairly well-cared-for. Down towards Fifteenth, the 19th Police Precinct is located, amidst other small businesses - clothes stores, a small electronics store, and a deli and convenience store frequented by the policemen. Their nearby presence seems to make this area a little less dangerous than others, for there seems little evidence of criminal activity here. Even down towards Thirteenth, with its own small businesses and grocery store, is cleaner and more at ease than some of the surrounding areas only a few blocks south.
Contents:
Kristin
Obvious exits:
Yellow River Medicine Shop Brownstone Police Station North South East
Moving down the street, at a clip window shopping as she does, Kristin takes her time perusing the different stores and shops.
Coming out of the Yellow River Medicine Shop, Yi sports recent purchases. With water bottle in hand, the ragabash pays no attention to the suspicious eyeings she gets from the store clerk behind her. A short snap of the plastic cap off, and she proceeds down on the same street side as the other girl. Just another pedestrian, really.
Kristin pauses, as she shifts a backpack from her back to the ground to fish something out of it. She rumages inside it for a long moment frantically searching.
Yi is just one of those people who can drink water and walk at the same time. Even though the other girl suddenly stops on the street, the Gnawer quickly adjusts to narrowly avoid colliding with her from behind. Eyeing Kristin with a very shortened look of annoyance, Yi simply shakes her head and continues on walking. The fostern pauses herself a few feet off, with a slight double take back over her shoulder at the distressed girl.
[look Kristin (homid)]
She is maybe a fraction of an inch or so over five feet tall without footwear. She's naturally slender and almost unusually petite; with no real breasts to speak of, and with the slightest of slim curves that mark her body as female. Her skin is dark brown-the color of brown sugar, not a true dark brown but a light warm brown. Her hair is brown-black and is neither truly straight nor is it curly. Her eyes are brown, nearly black, they are slightly more round than almond shaped. Her eyebrows are thin, and slender.
A pair of slight rounded, and yet squared pair of classes sits over her eyes. A white tee-shirt adorns her torso;the design is a crown of stars, in silver and gold with a little bit of glitter on it. Her low cut hip-hugging jeans are somewhat faded and look slightly worn. The belt is a simple silver chain that loops around and has some extra chain hanging down to create a bit of decoration. The jeans flare out at the bottom, revealing some rather broken in tennis shoes.
Kristin rumages more frantically through the back pack, then looks behind her. "Oh... where is it?" she breaths. She glances down the street, and then a bit more upset as moments pass.
Maybe it's the conscience. Maybe it's just poking her nose into other people's business. Regardless of what it is, Yi furrows her brow as she sees the young girl look around for some obviously missing item. Screwing the cap back onto her water bottle, the fostern swings back around and inquires in a polite, but concerned tone, "Something the matter?"
Taking a walk. For someone who hasn't been in the actual city for awhile it seems strange for Helen to be taking a walk down Elson Street, peeking in the windows of various stores she knows she'd never go in. She looks disinterested, for the most part, though her expression brightens somewhat upon seeing the familiar figure of Yi. Brows furrow upon spotting Kristin. "Hey," she calls once she gets close enough for the Fostern to hear her.
Kristin raises her head from the backpack, when she hears someone call 'hey', though when she determines it's not directed at her she does back to searching through her backpack. "My necklace..." she mutters, to Yi, remebereing she'd been asked a question. "I can't find it... " she rummages more frantically, now looking a little more terrified.
Yi glances up, though not in a way that belies she recognizes the voice calling out right off the bat. When she pinpoints Helen out of the other oddly-avoidant passerbys on the sidewalk though, the Gnawer affords a short, and definitely warmer smile towards the Fury, inclining her head in a silent greeting. The smile fades off as she turns back to the girl. "Your necklace?" she continues on in that more detached manner. "Should it not be on around your neck?" After all, that would be the most obvious place to look shouldn't it?
Kristin shakes her head, and closes her backpack looking a bit upset. "It's not for wearing, the clasp which holds the chain together is broken so I was looking for a place to get it fixed. And now I can't find it. And it was a present ..." she breaths, sighing deeply.
"Maybe it fell out?" Helen suggests, having moved closer so she's standing near Yi, but now is watching the girl with a raised brow. She glances around at the sidewalk, looking for some sign of Kristin's missing necklace, before looking back to the frantic girl.
"Or maybe you forgot it at home," Yi offers as well, only mildly looking around for said missing jewelry. "What does it look like?" A glance goes over to Helen, followed with a slight, easily missed shrug.
Kristin picks up the backpack. "It's about this big," she demonstrates with her hand about half an inche of space. "the charm that is, it's a wolf, that's howling..." she explains. "Made of crystal..." she says closing her eyes trying to remeber what it looks like. She makes a face recalling the image.
"Sounds pretty," Helen says, sounding interested but careful to keep her face in an expression of indifference. "Where'd you get it?"
Yi, all things considered, doesn't yet notice any difference. "Well, you should just forget about it," the Gnawer states aloud, perhaps a bit coldly. "If it was lost, maybe it is not that important to you. The memory of it seems enough." She starts to turn away, not bothering with polite endings of discourse.
Kristin shakes her head. "It was a gift from my father... before he died." she closes her eyes, trying to keep from clying. "It was...really special." she bites her lip.
Helen's nose twitches, glancing at Yi. "Buuurn," she murmurs under her breath with a quirky grin. To Kristin she offers a frown of understanding. "Sorry, kiddo. Maybe you'll find it?"
Yi starts off on down the sidewalk, but not before leveling something that might start even more of a fire. "I am sure your father is quite proud of you." Someone's feeling the moon. As the fostern turns off and away, it's Helen who catches the first glimpse. A shimmering on the sidewalk, that could, at first, be mistaken for the crystalline glimmer of a missing necklace.
Kristin nods. "I hope so." she responds softly. "I really hope so." she closes the backpack, but not before getting another look inside it. Kristin blinks and starts walking to wards glint, hope in her eyes and making her movements speed up. She raises an eyebrow at Yi. "Umm... I'm sure he is..." she says slowly.
"Don't worry about it," says Helen, talking slowly as if she's distracted. She certainly is, brows furrowed, staring at the sidewalk where she spotting the very strange glimmering. She shrugs it off. "You had it in your backpack?"
Yi heads in the opposing direction of the shine, and hence misses it. The Gnawer makes no looks back. The glimmer though, doesn't just stay in one place. Kristin heads towards it and it gets closer. Or rather, it actually does seem to be moving closer... on its own accord. The light on the ground retains its unnatural, alien shine. A quiet clicking comes to the ear, at times drowned out by the sound of the passing traffic.
Kristin nods. "Or at least I thought I did." she swallows, a moment and then feels around the outside of the pack. "Perhaps..." she reaches into a side pock. "Nope..." she says. She scrounges in other side pocks, and other smaller pocket, as she moves. "Odd..." she whispers stopping completely at the pretty shiney object. She stops and watches the shine for a moment... did it move?
"Odd?" Helen asks Kristin, as if there was nothing amiss, no glimmering thing rushing around the girl. "What's odd?"
Kristin blinks. "That... glimmer..." she points at the spot,where the glimmer is to her eyes. "There." she says bending over. "I could almost swear it moved... almost."
The shine continues to 'click' towards the younger girl, suddenly jumping off the ground a couple of feet and circling around her leg. If it weren't for all the light and the sound of cars passing by, the pair of girls could see a tiny, four inch tall unicorn prancing about on the asphalt. *Cub! Cub!* Its very tiny voice neighs and whinnies with alarm.
Now that Helen's suspicions have been confirmed, she swears under her breath. "Hey, what's your name?" she asks Kristin with a friendly smile.
Kristin smiles. "Kristin, why do you ask?" she pauses, and looks around for the glimmer again.
Smiling, Helen says, "Just wondering. I'm Helen." She pauses, wracking her brain. "You know, maybe someone...picked up your necklace? Brought it somewhere?"
Kristin pauses. "Where would someone take it? What signifigance would it have to them." she takes a few moments, and the licks her lips. "Where could it have gone?"
The glimmering unicorn spirit really isn't all that hard to find. It stops for a moment, standing Right There on the sidewalk staring back at the cub to be with brightly shining sapphire colored eyes. Then it starts to grow, just a bit bigger, bulking up to a foot in height, and still slowly expanding all around. There's no mistaking it now. A unicorn, brightly glowing, swings its head around and around in sweeping arcs this way and that, its horn leaving a dim trail. Funny though, there's not a car that slows, nor a person that stops on the streets.
Helen shrugs. "Maybe someone took it to, um, a lost-and-found somewhere?" she suggests. She briefly glances towards the kinfetch spirit as it grows, sending it a glowering look, really hoping Kristin cannot see it now. "I have an idea of where a place like that is," she lies. "Wanna come with me?"
[From afar, to the room, Helen turns on Persuasion! Ha ha. :>]
Kristin takes a few steps back, she looks scared. How come no one else saw the horned horse in the middle of the street? She closed her eyes and then opened them, taking several deep breaths. "Yes, sure... Helen." she breaths begining to follow the other woman-maybe she was halucinating or something... yeah... must be.
Call the white jackets. Call the Agents of the Matrix. Something is Very weird here. Hallucinations be damned, that's a creature standing right there in front of the pair of girls that makes Shadowfax from the Lord of the Rings movies look like low budget CGI. As the unicorn continues to swing its head, Helen can make out the glyphs it's drawing with its horns as it grows, assuming a colt's size, and then a small pony's. Homid, theurge. Homid, theurge. And then, as it grows to the size of a brilliantly gleaming white stallion, the spirit turns and gallops off into right into the middle of the street without any warning whatsoever. The cars on the street drive right into it, and collide with the ephemera. Suddenly, it's all just dust in the wind. Sparkling dust, but just a cloud of dust.
Kristin takes a few steps back, she looks scared. How come no one else saw the horned horse in the middle of the street? She closed her eyes and then opened them, taking several deep breaths. "Yes, sure... Helen." she breaths begining to follow the other woman-maybe she was halucinating or something... yeah... must be.
Call the white jackets. Call the Agents of the Matrix. Something is Very weird here. Hallucinations be damned, that's a creature standing right there in front of the pair of girls that makes Shadowfax from the Lord of the Rings movies look like low budget CGI. As the unicorn continues to swing its head, Helen can make out the glyphs it's drawing with its horns as it grows, assuming a colt's size, and then a small pony's. Homid, theurge. Homid, theurge. And then, as it grows to the size of a brilliantly gleaming white stallion, the spirit turns and gallops off into right into the middle of the street without any warning whatsoever. The cars on the street drive right into it, and collide with the ephemera. Suddenly, it's all just dust in the wind. Sparkling dust, but just a cloud of dust.
Helen says nothing about how the spirit they both saw grew and grew. Instead she takes a light holdof Kristin's shoulder. "Let's go," she murmurs, leading the girl down the street at a quick pace towards Yi. "Hey, Yi," she says loudly once they've gotten close enough. 'Cub' she mouths, giving Yi a meaningful look that pretty much says: help meeeee.
Kristin is standing as still as stone, she can't quite figure out what's going on, and her face show it. Her brown eyes closes and she takes a step back. Then foreward, was this what her mother meant, by special? She nods and walks with Helen, starting to trust, her just a bit more, though she's shaking.
Yi turns as her name is called out, brows lifted in askance. Upon seeing Kristin again being dragged along, the fostern just gets a bit more of a perturbed look. It's a short bit of time for processing, before she actually realizes what Helen's getting at. The Gnawer looks the girl up and down, and nods to Helen. "Hello again," she greets the both of them. "Did you find your necklace?" she asks quite blandly. "I think I might have actually seen it on the street a little way down there," she says with an indication towards a more 'secluded' spot. "You want to come see?"
Kristin takes a moment to try to get her mind, in working order- at the mention of the necklace her attention jumps back to Yi. "Yeah." she says focused now on the lost object.. "You think so?"
"Sure," Yi utters in answer, beckoning the girl to come with. "Sorry about earlier. I have not been feeling very good lately. Maybe something I ate." It's all small talk, leading away to the spot underneath a tree. "Have a look around herE?
"Let's follow Yi, she can help us," Helen says, patting Kristin's shoulder reassuringly.
Kristin nods and follows obdiently. She's not going to argue, there ladies seemed to by trying to help. She took a moment to asscess the situation before continuing.
Into an area of a smaller park screened from the street by some trees, Yi leads the pair and gestures around. It does look like one of those places where something could have been easily misplaced, if just by a small pocket hole. Just over on the side, a junky, quite out of place looking car is parked. Helen should recognize the Mystery Mobile right off the bat. "You may want to look around here. People lose things all the time." Slowly, the fostern manuevers herself around close by to the girl's side.
Kristin nods. "True I guess, I did pass by here." she begins searching for the necklace one the ground, unsure of where exactly it could have gone.
Helen, seeing what Yi is doing and of course recognizing the car, stands next to Kristin on the other side. She waits, glancing sidelong to Yi, and then to Kristin. "See anything?" she asks. She crouches next to the girl, peeking down at the ground only briefly, before taking hold of her arm and hoisting the girl up, intent on (with Yi's help of course) getting her in the car and outta here.
No questions posed. Yi extracts a pair of keys and manuevers them so that she can hold it firmly. While the girl's eyes are directed on the ground, the fostern swings herself around, one arm shooting out to grab, twist and lock the girl's arm around her back. The key is jabbed towards her throat, held there with a prickling against the skin. "Do not scream," the fostern whispers into her ear, "or you will regret it. Very Much."
Kristin freezes, her heart races and her mind clicks into 'safety mode'-Complie, was what she should do. She noded slightly feeling the key scractch her thoat. She relaxed.
Helen nods at Kristin, pleased she's going along with this. "Get in the car, kiddo," she says, pushing at the small of the girl's back towards the car. She opens the door and directs Kristin to get herself in the backseat. Once she's complied, Helen heads to the passenger seat and with Yi driving, off they go.
Big Red Barn(#3420RA)
The barn is built in the old style, a vast three level structure that is greater in height than a mere three stories, actually closer to five. Great wooden posts support the weight of the upper levels and roof, sunk into the hard-packed dirt floor of the first level like a sparse forest of regularly spaced, naked trees. The stalls and flagstones which once were here have been torn out to leave a rather open area where even crinos Garou may roam freely without fear of running into anything but the supports or the walls or the ladder at the back which allows access to the other two levels.
The first two levels are relatively open to each other, the second being only little wider than a catwalk going around all the walls but the front one, which has massive, twenty foot tall doors set into it. The third level is a true second floor except for a place cut out that allowed hay to be tossed down to the ground floor when the farm was actually worked. Now, it is a hayloft where Garou can sleep outside of the house.
Contents:
Helen
Obvious exits:
BarnYard
The Mystery Mobile takes a few hard pumps of the gas pedal before it roars to life. Kristin finds out soon enough, that while Yi was serious about not making any noise, she was only holding a pair of car keys to the girl's throat. Haha, nice. Nevertheless, the fostern is quite insistent on the quiet. Kristin can watch the scenery pass by at rapid pace, as Yi takes the three of them past the city borders, over the highway, and finally pulls into the farmhouse lane. "Out." There's only that one order. The rest is implied that she should follow. Into the barn, they go. Once the door is shut, Yi turns around and asks, "Do you know why you're here?"
Kristin shakes her head. "No..." she asnswers softly, her eyes trying to get some bearing on where she is. Her hands shake and she's unable to clutch her cellphone, or make sense of the numbers.
Yi sighs and then wets her lips, gathering her thoughts. "Well, has anyone ever told you that you were special? And told you in a way that you thought there was more to it? Where are your parents?" she asks instead, remaining in between her and the door.
Kristin nods. "My parents... my mother's at home currently, with my little sister, most likely... and my father was-is... dead." she says trying to answer the question as best she can. "Time and time again... I was told I'm different... special... certainly..."
"You are a Garou," Yi says in clear, simple tones. She's trying to keep her voice as enunciated as possible. "That is another word for a 'werewolf'. One who can change from man to wolf, and back again. Only, this is not like your regular stories." She clears her throat, and watches the girl's reaction carefully.
Kristin listens. She seemed stunned and yet not stunned. Her brown eyes close for a long moment, a tear or two slidding down her cheek.
Yi narrows her eyes at the tear, waiting in silence as she watches the girl. The fostern seems expectant of more. Oddly, a small lip corner of her lips quirks upwards.
Kristin takes a few deep breaths. "I guess I kinda new... err sorta. I-well my mom, always - she... just things." she rubs her eyes. "So... what..."
Yi strides over to a nearby support post, leaning upon it. In a way, she's opened up the path to the closed barn door. And yet, Helen is supposedly out there, guarding. "So, what?" The Gnawer lifts her brows again, keeping, if anything, infuriatingly closed-mouth on the subject of what she just spoke of.
Kristin looks away. "So what about all of this.... I mean... why... what now...?" she stands. "What am I supposed to do?" she shouts, her fists balled. "What now, huh? So I'm some kind a werewolf?" she's not exactly mad, but she's frustated and her eyes are pleading.
An assessing look roams over the girl. "Hmmm," is all the fostern answers with at first. A long, impatient silence follows afterwards. "Maybe." The girl's plea goes quite unnoticed, or if it is noticed, it goes ignored. There it is again, that enigmatic smirk of hers. It acts as a mask, covering what other thoughts might be revealed from the ragabash.
Kristin flops down. She starres at the other woman, she's upset and frankly afraid. She flops out on the ground, her eyes closed, silent sobs racking her body.
Minutes pass. This breakdown of the cub's, seems at first unfazing of the ragabash at all. And then, after a given amount of time, Yi pushes off the post and crosses over to her, stooping to bring her eyes to the same level as the girl's. "What is your name?" she asks. This time, her voice is much softer. Much less cold, and much more forgiving.
Kristin rolls over on her side. "Kristin." she sits up, and looks-wild. Her eyes are deep brown, and have actually changed color-to a near inky black. "Why do ask?" she braces herself against the ground.
"Good. I am Yi." The fostern seems to be taking it one step at a time again, for now. "And the next thing I want to ask you is... do you always believe everything someone tells you so easily?" Yi grins outright this time, her gaze glittering with no small bit of amusement at her own question.
Kristin leans back, she pauses. "Well... I guess I have a tendacy to be gullable." she says after a few moments of thought, her voice breaks as her few tears trickle down her face. She wipes them away quickly. "Sorry, Yi." she tries not to start crying again.
Yi sighs softly. "I should say that you should learn to question, but from what Helen tells me, yours is not to question like she and I do. Well. Tell me, what are you crying about?"
Kristin smiles. "I feel lost. Kind of like I've had the ground yanked from beneath my feet. Like I've been tossed in a bag, that's been tied up, and then dropped in a hole and told to free myself. It's kind of funny, when you said I was a werewolf, I thought about my mother. My mother used to tell me stories, all the time about werewolves, how they acted- they weren't the traditional stories. Was she hinting at this?" she muses, letting her thoughts wander as she speaks. She smiles, "I'm sorry, Yi. I'm just rambling..."
"If your mother knows, this will make it easier," Yi replies, standing up and brushing herself off. Taking a few steps back, the Gnawer loosens up herself and takes in a deep breath. Without further explanation, the ragabash starts to grow. Upwards, outwards, her form blurs a bit at the edges, but all in all the transformation is held in complete silence. It is smoothly done, and her clothes stretch, then mold and sprout fur before disappearing entirely. The Gnawer stops at the Crinos form, half man and half wolf. The true form. It is in this form that all her scars become visible, formerly hidden by her clothing, or her hair.
Kristin begins to scramble backwards, away from the form-changing woman. She's not so much terrified as unnerved. After a few moments she begins to go closer, curiousity, and perhaps awe showing her brown eyes. She crawls on all fours close to the half-human half-lupine being that is Yi-at least she hopes she's still Yi in there.
[Runner (crinos)]
Dangerous, feral golden amber eyes echo the Rage that flows just inside the veins. The crinos' pelage is a riot of rich rust and golden colors ticked with black on her backside. The blaze of ivory and creamy white runs from beneath her jaws down her front, licking up inside her limbs. Her large black-tipped ears and tail flick and lash in restless energy. Curving yellow-white claws and dagger-like fangs curve and point in a deadly arsenal of the Gaian warrior, ready to rend and tear at a moment's whim.
Thin scars criss-cross like a roadmap of past horrors that, though partly hidden by fur, are nonetheless there as proof of her victories and failures. Two particular scars stands out as a symbols; upon her right shoulderblade - an ankh with an elongated stem, twisting in an 'S' shape to end in a tight spiral, and the tribal glyph of the Glass Walkers carved into her lower left abdomen at a painful angle. Both look like they were carved in to last as a brand. A territorial marking. An old Battlescars also stand out on her skin, with one in particular traveling down the inside of her right thigh to the knee. It seems she carries herself one that leg with a near undetectable limp. (+details available)
Runner tenses a bit under the scrutiny, and with the full moon still ever present, the Rage lurking beneath the surface is right there. She doesn't allow the cub to look long, instead turning and shifting further down. It doesn't look like she is returning to any semblance of a human form, but instead shrinking past the size of a human and dropping down to all fours. By the time the transformation finishes, she has passed the hispo form into the lupus. The scars on her body shift accordingly, and a choke chain with a tag appears as well inexplicably, but the ragabash is nevertheless still colored the same, looks and acts fairly wolf-like. Her tail wags a little bit, trying to be reassuring without too much of an overly friendly demeanor towards the girl's curiosity.
Kristin mouth forms an 'awww' before she remembers something. "Still a wild animal lurking in there..." she remind herself. She's unsure of something, and so keeps completely still. The wagging tail, that made the girl relax a bit, both in physical and mental tension, at least a little bit. "Yi?" she asks curious, extending a hand slowly.
Runner deliberately shies away from the girl's hand, shaking herself from head to toe with a snort. A side of her lip curls up, revealing with clear expression that yes, I am Dangerous. Do not touch. In seconds, and clearly faster than before, she makes the shift back to her breed form with speed. Yi brushes herself off once again when she's back in her human shape. The clothes have reappeared, covering the roadmap of battles from before. Her throat also clears, lightly, and she says plainly, "You can do this too. With practice. This is what we are. And what you are."
Kristin looks at her hands. "I've always dreamed of being a wolf. I'd have such... vidi dreams..." she says quietly, almost reverantly. "The hunting, and howling...the racing through the woods." she smiles. "Is it anything like that?"
Yi slowly bows her head in thought. "Something like that, but there is more. Very much more. Some things, not nearly as pleasant as hunting or howling, or running through the woods. But those you will discover in time." She turns, starting to pace towards the door and back. "Helen told me your kinfetch revealed you as a homid born, theurge, of the Children of Gaia. I am a ragabash, also a homid born, and I belong to a tribe of the Garou called the Bone Gnawers." She pauses there, glancing back. "I know those mean very little, but that is what you will learn. What I will add though, is that you are now in a world of Our kind."
Kristin blinks. THe words seemed to click inside her head. "Mother muttered something like that the day my father died... then I got the neck-" she bolts up, completely on her feet and begins looking for her backpack. "The necklace... it's probably gone." she kicks the ground. "No point in searching for it now." she settles back down to listen.
"Why? Maybe it was very important to you," Yi replies with quiet observation. "But no, you should not worry so much about it. A necklace, compared to the world that has been revealed to you? Which is the more important? If your parents are important though, you should remember their names. What are they called? Where do they live?"
Kristin blinks. "Why would I forget their names? But for the record my mother's name is Erica and my father is Robert." she looks a little concerned then straightens out. "You're right the necklace isn't soo important... but I'd still like to have it back." she licks her lips again. "I leave near Elmerson St."
"Erica and Robert..." Yi twirls her hand, encouraging a family name. The ragabash only nods at the mention of the necklace, as well as the address. Then her hand drops to her side. "If you are worried that your family will come to harm, you do not have to. I am only finding this out to see if your mother, or your father, are... part of the Family." The capitalization in her tone is quite audible.
Kristin nods slowly. She doesn't know how to respond right away. "Hunt." she adds responding with her family name. "Yi... is it ok to feel... bewildered and excited. Oh, I've got a little sister to Kira... what's gonna happen to her?" she asks her tone becoming slightly higher.
Yi shrugs a shoulder, providing as much of an honest answer as she can manage with just a motion. "We will see. Right now, the important thing is to bring you to your elder, and soon to be teacher as well." After she says that, the Gnawer fostern gets back a bit of her humor again. "I think you might be surprised by who you see is your elder. But, I would not be doing my duty if I did not say you should respect her. She is in a very honorable position too. And... it is the full moon..." That last part, sounds quite ominous.
Kristin leans foreward, "Something interesting about this elder?" she asks begining to get to her feet, but yawning. "What about the full moon?"
"Do you not feel it?" Yi's question comes a bit too quickly, but then she slows again. "The pull of the moon runs in all of us. Maybe it is that you have not .. changed yet." She takes in another breath, once more keeping her thoughts together, though they seem to spill out over the edges. "I think it is best to meet her, and then you will see. First though... are you hungry?"
Kristin sits back. "A little hungry." she says quietly. "I guess I always have felt different when the moon is full, but doesn't everyone?"
Yi chuckles lowly. "You would be surprised how many people in this world have very little feeling toward anything, especially the moon." She stretches a bit, and then gestures for the girl to rise and follow. "You saw a farmhouse when we came in. This farmhouse, all this land around, is our territory. A small part of it. You will meet other cubs, and other tribes, and other elders. But you should remember that you are a Child of Gaia. It is like... or will be like, your closer family." A finger comes up to scratch at the back of her chin, working around that analogy. Finally, the barn doors are opened, revealing the sun to be close to setting. "There's food in the kitchen, which you are free to eat if you are hungry. But for now... you are not allowed to go beyond the borders of the barn yard." Yi glances back over her shoulder, as if to make sure the girl has heard her.
Kristin nods, as she follows making sounds of confirmation as she walks. "Understood." she says warmly. She searches through the fridge as she thinks on all that's happened. "So I'm some sort of werewolf... sounds exciting. You made it sound as if there is something more to it though..."
"Garou," Yi repeats, and despite her accent it sounds like she's had quite the practice saying it. "And yes, there is a whole new world to discover waiting for you. More than you can imagine right now, I would say with confidence." Quirking her lips up at the corners, she allows the cub to go ahead out of the door first before closing it behind her and pointing her towards the farmhouse.
Kristin heads towards the farmhouse, she pauses. "So what's it like being... Gar-oooo... " she tries to keep from laugh at her own inept ness.
Yi considers as they walk, placing a hand on the glass door at the back of the hosue. "After all that I have learned, I fear I am still a baby sparrow in a world full of falcons," she replies, humbly. "After you."
Farmhouse: Kitchen and Dining Room
Homey is the first word to come to mind when looking at the farmhouse's kitchen. Dark, wood-paneled wainscoting covers the walls to about waist height, dark beige wallpaper continuing to the ceiling. Twin refrigerators occupy the north wall, facing the large six-burner stove on the south. The kitchen counter runs the length of the eastern wall, broken only by the double-basin sink. Cabinets run above and below the counter and a twin-pane window is set in the wall above the sink. A small pantry is set into an alcove alongside the refrigerators, presumably holding the deep freezer as well as shelves of dry goods.
Some twelve feet above the floor, a large chandelier hangs from the ceiling, lighting the dining room and casting long shadows over the bar to the kitchen. A long table occupies the center of the dining room, three chairs setting along each side, and one on each end. On the west wall, a large window looks out on the trees alongside the western pasture. Set into the north wall is a large cabinet, its glass doors closed on shelves containing a full compliment of fine china and glassware as well as a few decorative nicknacks. On the east, a wide bar separates the dining room from the kitchen.
An opening in the southern wall allows passage to the front entryway of the house, while a sliding glass door in the kitchen opens to a clearing behind the house.
Obvious exits:
Hallway/Living Room Back Door
Entering the Farmhouse, with slow steps, Kris makes her way to the fridge, and proceedes to find out what's inside of it.
Yi is right behind Kristin. Her eyes are the ones looking around for inhabitants, and tracking the young girl to make sure she doesn't do anything against the rules.
Rules? What rules? Kristin continues to poke around in the fridge moving aside things to search for fruit and other tasty edibles. "Know if there's any fruit in here, Yi?" she asks glancing over shoulder.
There ought to be? Yi doesn't answer, provided her lack of knowledge on it. She crosses over towards the fridge as well, setting a hand atop the open door. "Kristin. I know I said this is where you will be living, and that you are free to help yourself to the food... but you should consider that this is not your house," comments the fostern.
Kristin turns around, and closes the refridgerator door. "First you ask if I'm hungry, and then... say that I will be living here, and that I can help myself to the food.... and yet... you then repremand me? Is that contradictory?" she asks crossing the floor towards Yi, though she doubles checks with a glance to make sure the fridge door is closed.
A sigh issues forth, but Yi shakes off the funk and levels an eye at the girl. "I guess where I come from, and how I was raised, I was not so eager to accept offerings because of what I would have to give in return for them." At that, her tone chills a few degrees. "We Garou have a law. It is to respect the territory of another."
Kristin takes a step back. "Personal space, but a communal level?" she asks curiously. She sighs. "I guess it's hard to respect something you've never know existed. Is there a way I had to go about respecting this space?"
Upstairs, the shower can be heard running.
Having heard a new voice, Stacey walks into the kitchen. The young preteen leans against the wall with a small smile. She gives a respectful nod to the Fostern, then tilts her head curiously. "Who is the newcomer?" she asks, glancing toward Kristin.
Yi tilts her head a little at the shower running, still in midst of considering her answer when Stacey walks in. She returns the nod, her head dipping just a bit before indicating the girl. "Your new cub," she replies to Stacey at first. "Helen found her in the city. Theurge. Kristin... this is Stacey. Your tribe's elder." And so, the two ends meet.
Kristin blinks. Her face screams surprised, her right eyebrow is drawn up in an arch and her eyes go over the girl's form. "Ahhh... hello." she says slowly, then turns back to Yi. She mouths, 'Joking,right?' with a look of incredubility on her face. She takes a few moments. "You can't be any older than me..." she says slowly.
The shower shuts off, and there's some thumping upstairs; a moment or two later, Kaz wanders downstairs, whistling cheerfully. The whistling cuts off when she spies people, and she starts grinning as she heads into the kitchen.
Stacey arches an eyebrow, pushing up from the wall and standing straighter. Sure, she's young, but somehow the little girl has a way about her that commands some respect. "Probably younger. But I am considered an adult here. I have proven myself, and I am your Elder." She glances to Yi, Kaz not yet noticed. "Thank you for bringing her, Yi-rhya."
Kristin blinks, she takes a few steps back but nods. "I understand." she replies simply, she knew when to pick and choose her battles, and also knew what it was like to under estimated and picked on, and teased because you more or were different. "I understand completely."
Yi, all things considered, does a marvelous job of not outright laughing, even though the set of her foxlike grin indicates obviously that she'd expected it. "She may have Kinfolk in her family," Yi adds, "Her mother at least. Her father, is passed." Her head tilts again upon the showering cutting off, and the whistling. "And here comes the next bomb," she murmurs thoughtfully, raising a hand to wave just as Kaz crosses the threshold to the kitchen. With a nod of her head to respective parties and the mouthing of the word 'her new cub' in indication of Kristin's relation to Stacey, that's what the ragabash explains.
Kaz eyes Kristin thoughtfully. "Bet you don't, really," she says, cheerfully, "But you get points for not bitchin' much. Hi there. I'm Kaz. An' hey, Yi. How's tricks?"
Kristin laughs. "Kristin." she tells Kaz, and her new Elder. "No, actually I do. Most of the time people think I'm in middle school. So I gently and politely correct them."
Stacey smiles at the cub's understanding. "Good to meet you, Kristin. About how old are ya, then?" Her smile turns to a grin as Kaz enters, and she gives her a respectful nod. "Hello, Kaz-rhya."
"Would be better if... if many Things had not happened the way they have," Yi says slowly after pointing the cub in the direction of the bathroom. Her throat clears roughly, eyes shifting between the pair.
Kaz tilts her head. "Y'mean Baz and Kevin? Or's there more shit goin' on that I don' know about?"
Stacey watches the cub curiously as she leaves, then returns her attention to the others, frowning slightly.
Yi nods, even though there is definitely more. Definitely. "Rumors about ... Renee. And my involvement. The halfmoons, they asked after it. And," she pauses, glancing towards Stacey a brief second before looking back to Kaz, "I assume you heard about Masao and me, about what happened with Kevin."
Kaz looks confused. "Renee? I thought she was, like, long gone?" A moment later, she adds, "And no, I got no idea how you and Masao are connected to Kev and Baz gettin' it on."
Stacey raises her brows at the mention of Renee. "That's... long dealt with, isn't it? Renee?" she asks, frowning.
Yi stalls with a quiet, awkward utterance before elaborating. "When Kevin announced his crime at the moot... no one had run after him, although Dillen injured him. I am not sure why that happened, but... I felt that I needed to find out if what he had said was true. It was." She drags herself up some more. "When I caught Kevin, when I found it to be true, I was angered. I beat him... almost killed him. But in the end, Masao questioned, and it was revealed that Basil was the one, and," she cuts off abruptly to recompose herself. The strain of the full moon visibly weighs on her. "And I let him go. I told Kevin to run. To leave." Her gaze, which had dropped, lifts. "In the end, they did not run. Vera caught them. And in the end, accused me and Masao for helping them because we let them go. The halfmoons brought up Renee... perhaps because it is a situation where I have helped another charach."
Kaz listens to this, quietly. "Huh," she finally says. "I keep wondering what the fuck Kevin was thinkin', announcin' it at fuckin' Moot like that. Christ." She chews her lip, and adds, "Renee... Oh, yeah. Uh. Huh. Maybe I oughta talk to someone, if they're bringin' /all/ of that shit back up."
Stacey frowns further and shakes her head. "Going out dramatic-like to ease his own conscience," she mutters, crossing her arms. Otherwise, the young elder remains quiet.
Yi furrows her brow at her tribemate, but pushes aside what commentary there might've been. The ragabash then crosses over to the small table, slipping herself into a seat. "There is a story about a man who held a secret, and because he felt he had to speak it to someone, dug a hole and spoke the secret into it. Later, the secret fed a tree's seed and the tree grew and grew, and soon everyone around saw the secret exposed because it was grown onto the tree's wood. I wonder, if that is something like this." Her hand comes up to rub at her temple. "I will take punishment for letting him go, but, not again for Renee." Her lips thin. "Not again."
Kaz nods, slowly. Then she shakes her head faintly and banishes some thought of her own. "The thing with Garou justice is /supposed/ to be that you serve your damn punishment, and then you've /been punished/. You work your way back to who you were again. It's like... wolves don't hold grudges. /We/ ain't supposed to, either. This Sept ain't so good about that part of the whole justice thing."
Stacey shrugs a shoulder. "Well, it's the same on the human side. Double... something. It doesn't seem right in general to get punished for the same thing twice."
Yi gazes up at the galliard, a faint smile reappearing in a washed out manner. "She speaks truth, I say," the no-moon notes with a grateful dip of her head, like a lesson learned. "Speaking of truths... there is a new galliard for our tribe, staying around the city. His name is Giles? Yes, Giles. Aaron called him Scruffy, though. He supposedly has a kin, Sheena, caring for him. I think he is a little strange in the head, but these days... I told Olga I would call her, but the cub, and all of this," she summarizes with a twirling of her finger. She glances back to Stacey. "Her clothes are not dedicated yet. And I do not think she has Changed before."
Kaz says to Stacey, absently, "Jeopardy," most of her attention being caught by Yi. "/Giles/? Hey, cool. He said he might head this way... Thing with him is, he's a real whackjob, but he's a /fun/ whackjob. Ain't dangerous or nothin'. When'd he get here?"
Stacey raises her brows at Yi's words concerning Kristin, then nods. "I hadn't Changed either, when I was brought here. Auggie and Miguel had to walk me through it. I can work with her. And I can dedicate the clothes as well. Thank you."
Yi shakes her head towards Kaz's question. "I am not sure when Giles came, but he reminds me a little bit of someone I once knew. Masao thinks he reminds her of Crazy Joe. I tried to get him to shift, but he will not for some reason. I think that will be my concern, at least until the halfmoons decide what is to become of me and Masao." She then sucks in a deep, long breath and asks, "And how are things with the both of you?"
Kaz shrugs. "I just got back last night, an' I ran into Baz. So I kinda got tossed into stuff head first. But I'm gonna be speakin' for 'em, so they can go back to the City. Ain't right to keep up stuck here if they don' gotta be."
Stacey gives a bit of a shrug. "I'm all right. Just kinda... staying out of things for now. All a bit over my head, to be honest." The Ahroun glances down at the ground, then over at Kaz. "Welcome back."
Yi smiles sympathetically towards Stacey. "It is a shame you would have to see all of this, too. A Guardian... should not have to worry about her septmates for anything but their well being." The ragabash stands up afterwards, looking back towards Kaz. "Maybe you should stay around for a little while? Cole... I refused his Fostern challenge to me, but he may wish to have another option open."
Kaz says, "I have to, if I'm keepin' an eye on Kev and Baz." She heads to the fridge for a Coke, and looks over her shoulder. "Why'd you refuse him?"
Stacey returns the smile, but shakes her head. "The Guardian may have a duty, but the Gaian in me will always worry about her friends." She takes in a deep breath, then tilts her head, also curious.
"To be honest, he had come so quickly from his failed challenge to Alicia. I was not sure if he had grown from then," Yi answers pensively. "His cubs had just rited. He still has Kieran to worry for, and new cliaths, and kinfolk. In the end, I feel like if I sent him to perform some great task... where would they be?" The ragabash hitches a shoulder. "I think he need only prove himself to the rest of the sept, and not only his tribe, and he could gain such rank." Her form slowly sinks back into the chair as she considers, "Though, when I consider what I have done while holding this rank..."
Kaz says, promptly, "Scouted, and Questioned, and held the tribe t'gether, f'one thing. But-- as f'Cole..." She pops her Coke open, and takes a thoughtful swig. "The thing of it is, Challenges can be big or small. Dangerous or not. John's was, yeah. But mine wasn't. It all depends on what you do. But if it's a thing of him not having /done/ enough, that's diff'rent."
Stacey listens with passive interest, then nods her agreement to Kaz's words, then takes a step toward the hallway. "I should probably get Kristin settled. There will be much to speak with her about tomorrow."
Yi quirks her head at Kaz, her eyes definitely showing appreciation. "I think, though, once he has done his work and if he comes to me again, I have a good idea." Gaining some more confidence, she stands and stretches. "And I should return to the city. Who knows what other cubs may be waiting in the dark." Insert canned laughter here. "Would you like a ride back, Kaz?" She nods to Stacey, casting a brief glance up in the direction of the upstairs attic.
Kaz says, "Yeah, love one. I crashed here last night. Stace-- good t'see you, an' I'll catch you 'round, hey?" She finishes her Coke in one long swig, and then grabs another one, before following Yi out the door.
Stacey nods to them both. "Take care, both of you. And yeah, Kaz-rhya, I'd like that. It's always good to see you guys.
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